In 1480, the governor of Tripoli Youssef Bek Sayfa established Khan Al Saboun, in the last days of Mamluks.

And this place was a station to the visitors who came from outside to take a break. Because soap processing was so popular in Tripoli, the Khan had become a trading center for making and selling soap and it has been known since that time as "Khan Al Saboun". From this place, the Tripolitan traders exported soap to Europe, and some Europeans began to offer to their kings this Tripolitan scented soap as a gift. For these reasons, the handicraft took a special relief in Tripoli. As the request on this soap increased, the craftsmen took this job as an art and pleased the world with its quality, its efficacy and its different shapes so that Arabs and other countries started importing soap from Tripoli.

The Hassouns was one of the families who were known in making soap and they had and still have a production site near Khan Al Saboun.

By the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Europeans started to produce soap by automated and chemical ways and this created a concurrence to Tripoli's market. So the local soap producers were pushed to follow the machinery way because it was cheaper and more productive.

Since that time, the traditional way of making soap began to be more limited. By that time my grand parents continued to make their own natural soap in home and I learned from them how to do it.

Although I worked in making and selling gold for a long time, I preferred to return to the tradition of my ancestors… to the art of making Tripoli scented soap…and I returned to Khan AL Saboun…
To catch up with the level of this art in these days, I got help from the family experience, and from scientific, cultural and historical references.
And now, Khan Al Saboun produced more than one hundred kind of soap, and is a competitor in the world soap market.
And that would not happened without the big work that my family and I did and also with the help of Tripoli municipality who made us participate to many cultural and tourist exhibitions.
Now, Khan Al Saboun appears to the world as a Tripolitan tourist site and a place to make Tripoli scented soap.
My family and I are now working in this job and we don't make soap to only sell it but because we love it.
And we invite the entire world to share us this love and to live in this world of fragrance and nature.