Olive Soap

Werfzeep Olive Soap

Olive soap is very mild due to the high percentage of olein (oleic acid) in olive oil. This makes the surface foam without large bubbles and nourishes your skin, it is hydrating and soothing. Olive oil has been saponified for thousands of years.

We saponify cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil from Spain, together with home-fired olive leaf hydrolyzate from Puglia. In the spring Andreas sends us a huge supply of fresh olive leaves from the beautiful Puglian organic olive grove La Lamia. We distill this in our soap workshop into wonderfully soothing and restorative olive leaf hydrolyzate. You will soon find more about this on our blog.

Our olive soap contains no essential oils, nice if you do not like strong odors or are allergic to most essential oils. Olive soap is naturally free from allergens. Suitable for very sensitive skin.

Does not contain:

Sodium lauryl / laureth sulphate, parabens, alcohol (ethyl alcohol / ethanol), methyl isothiazolinone, methylchloroisothiazolinone, lanolin, propylene glycol, silicone, synthetic perfume, PABA sunscreen, petrochemicals, colorants, DEA, TEA, PEGs and all other optional synthetic additives.

Characteristics:

- Based on 100% natural ingredients
- Plastic-free, Zero waste
- Free from mineral oils, palm oil, silicones, parabens, SLS, SLES
- No animal testing
- 100 g

Ingredients (INCI):

sodium olivate*, aqua, olea europaea leaf water×.

* of certified organic origin. Palm oil free.

About Werfzeep

Werfzeep was created in 2009 from Evelien's preference for old crafts and natural products. During a trip through Canada that she and Laurens made, she ended up on an idyllic family farm where soap was made, with a ladle and a huge pan. The wooden house smelled like a fairytale and immediately the first day Evelien helped make soap. To her surprise, this handmade soap that lay in the shower and by the sink was gentle and caring for her skin. From childhood infested with eczema, soap had been out of the question for years, but this soap turned out to be a very different story from everything she had been acquainted with until then and which mainly gave her a tight skin.

Soap made from oils is a completely different product from factory soap made from refined fatty acids, with additives such as foam improvers, synthetic perfumes and preservatives, from which the glycerine is also skimmed. This discovery was enough for Evelien to completely fall under the spell of soap, artisanal soap, all possible ingredients and the effect on the skin. She started to develop her soaps in a historic wharf cellar on the Oudegracht in Utrecht. Now, eight years later, she works with a growing team in the beautiful soap studio on the Westerkade.