Often there is such a phenomenon that beneficial things have an unpleasant odor, taste, color. Birch tar there is no exception. Tar, which is present in soap, has been used by the Slavs for a very long time. In mythology, birch was one of the most sacred trees. And the medicines that were made from birch were considered especially healing. In addition to therapeutic, tar also had a number of useful properties for household needs. They greased with the axis of the carts. In addition, he had a wound healing and bactericidal effect. And today, tar is a part of therapeutic ointments. In addition to birch, there is still a pine, juniper and beech tar. But in tar soap, the share of birch tar is 10 percent.