Do you feel like you use unnecessarily many chemicals when you clean at home?
Nine years ago, we decided to start manufacturing and selling Västerbottenssåpa on a slightly larger scale so that more people would have the opportunity to clean in a more natural way.
The basic recipe is from great-grandmother Fredrika from 1926 and it has been in the family ever since.
In the years 2006 - 2011 we ran a small hotel with a restaurant and then we realized that the rapeseed oil from the kitchen's deep fryer was very fine but would still be "thrown away".
We thought it was a great waste and the recipe came up again.
During that time, we didn't sell any soap, but we cleaned the hotel with our own soap, nice!
But everything has its time and in 2011 the hotel got new owners and we started thinking that the soap might be able to continue to be manufactured. However, there was no factory premises and no name. The soap from our old family recipe was named Västerbottens Såpa, registered with the Swedish Chemicals Agency and we put together an application to the authorities and thought that maybe we could get some help with building a small soap factory.
When the answer came, it wasn't very fun, because they hadn't heard of anything more stupid!
We could have given up there, but after a day or so we thought like this: If it's so stupid, then most likely no one else has come up with making soap from used frying oil. And just because of that, it's probably a good idea. Said and done... we built a small, small factory ourselves. It took a while and we didn't really get started until 2018.
It has always been important for us to make real soap, not to add unnecessary chemicals but to only deliver PURE soap.
Many of us don't read what's on the back of the ingredient list when it comes to cleaning products. We want to change this. Turn over bottles and jars and read. If there are warning symbols, there is a reason for it. Then there are things in the product that need to be warned about.
Our soaps contain no such substances and do not need any warning symbols.
It is of course up to each individual to decide which ingredients are considered too dubious to expose ourselves and our families to, but you should have some knowledge of warning symbols.
We still only use cooking oil collected from selected local restaurants. It is mostly rapeseed oil or corn/rapeseed blend - but NEVER palm oil or animal fat. The oil that is purified and saponified then forms the basis for all our soap-based cleaning products.
Do you also want to start cleaning with natural cleaning products? Visit our website here.
✅ Circular - 100% Reuse of natural cooking oil!
✅ Made in Sweden, Vilhelmina
✅ Cleaning doesn't have to be that complicated, soap, vinegar and baking soda solve virtually all cleaning problems you may have in a normal home.
On our website you can also read several hundred comments from verified customers who clean with Västerbottenssåpa.