African black soap

[4] In Nigeria, black soap is often made by women using traditional recipes and is often exported through fair trade groups.

Black soap has been found to have some antimicrobial properties[5][6][7] against skin microbiota such as Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Candida albicans.

[14] Additionally, Dutch merchant and diplomat David van Nyendael provided accounts of soap-making on the Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana), where locals used palm oil, banana leaves, and wood ash.

A combination of ose-dudu with leaves of the tropical camwood tree (Pterocarpus osun) produces a popular kind of soap with exfoliating properties called Dudu-Osun.

[4] Other traditional Nigerian names for black soap include sabulun salo and ncha nkota.