Bars of olive-oil soap share counter space with piles of lokum (Turkish Delight) and slabs of amber-hued honeycomb.

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After the massage, either soap or oil, you are on your own.

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The NDRC has warned some companies about the dangers of inflation, pressuring firms that make products including cooking oil, food and soap to steer clear of rapid price rises.

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The 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster was the previous benchmark for American oil spills, which garnered soap-operatic coverage.

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And finally, the oil is also processed into "soap stock" that turns up in soaps and detergents of all kinds.

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Best buys are babouches (traditional leather slippers), silver Berber jewellery, the famous blue-glazed Fassi ceramics, hand-sewn linen and cotton embroidery, Berber hendiras (traditional woven cloaks that make great wall hangings), argan oil (for cooking or in soap), saffron and other spices, brassware, and carpets of every type, style and quality.

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Its bitter leaves are an ingredient in South Indian rasam and curries, and its oil is a common additive to cosmetics, laundry soap, shampoos and toothpaste.

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Where Scalia wrote that Oncale had been "physically assaulted...in a sexual manner, " she'd spell out that the young man had been pinned in the oil rig's shower and assaulted with a bar of soap.

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The remaining oil is treated with an alkali to remove free fatty acids (which form a soap).

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