Tag: Leonarda Cianciulli

• October 30, 2020

  Leonarda Cianciulli: The dark side of soapmaking

  

  When I think of soapmaking, I imagine someone working in their kitchen making cold process soap with colourful swirls. I don’t think of death, crime and cannibals. Yet that’s all swirling in the murky past of this beautiful-and dangerous-hobby. The Soap-Maker of Correggio: Leonarda Cianciulli Forget Sweeney Todd. This real-life soapmaker from Italy killed three…