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Sara Idenfors

This is how you read the ingredient list:


Genuine soft soap is made from oils and potassiumhydroxide instead of sodiumhydroxide, either potassium hydroxide or potash lye, as it is also called, creates soft soap crystals. Consequently, soap has an ingredient list with INCI names beginning with: Potassium. The names indicate that the soap’s contents are fatty acid salts (soft soap/soap) saponified with potassium hydroxide (potassium hydroxide) and the respective oil.


So this does not mean that a “foreign chemical” has been added, but simply the specific name of the soap formed and the oil/fat from which it was made. In everyday speech we say soap; in “chemical language,” soap made from rapeseed oil is called: Potassium canolate. And water, of course, that is just ordinary water.

⁃ Nonionic surfactants: Surfactants (surface-active agents) are often used in cosmetics, liquid soap, as wetting agents, and in cleaning products; they dissolve grease and dirt.
⁃ Potassium canolate: Soap, dissolves particularly greasy dirt.
⁃ Chelating agent: Regulates the hardness of the water so that the laundry detergent also works with hard water.
⁃ CMC, Polycarboxylates: Made from thinned Finnish forest, they make the laundry detergent thicker and more viscous and help remove dirt with the wash water. 
⁃ Potassium citrate: Regulates the pH value.  


Our scented laundry detergents contain:
Water, Nonionic surfactants, Soap/Potassium canolate (saponified rapeseed oil), Polycarboxylates, Chelating agent, Potassium citrate, Fragrance, Ethanol.

Unscented laundry detergent contains:
Water, Nonionic surfactants, Soap/Potassium canolate (saponified rapeseed oil), Polycarboxylates, Chelating agent, Potassium citrate.

pH value approx. 11

Publicly available list of ingredients
in accordance with Annex VII D of Regulation (EC) No 648/2004

Product name: Laundry detergent 
Manufacturer: VästerbottensSåpa AB 
Ingredients:  
WATER 
ALCOHOLS, C10-16, ETHOXYLATED PROPOXYLATED TRISODIUM DICARBOXYMETHYL ALANINATE DECYLMONOETHANOLAMIDE ETHOXYLATE 
CELLULOSE GUM 
ALCOHOL 
FRAGRANCE 
SODIUM HYDROXIDE 
MEK 
ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL 
FATTY ACIDS, C16-18 AND C18-UNSATD., POTASSIUM SALTS GLYCERIN 
CITRIC ACID 
DENATONIUM BENZOATE 

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