How to read the ingredients list:
Real soap is made from oils and
potassium
hydroxide instead of
sodium
hydroxide, since potassium hydroxide, or potash as it's also called, creates soft soap crystals. As a result, soaps will have ingredient lists with INCI names starting with: Potassium. These names indicate that the soap consists of fatty acid salts (soap) that have been saponified with potassium hydroxide and the respective oil.
So, it’s not a case of an “added foreign chemical,” but simply the specific name of the soap that’s been formed and which oil/fat it’s made from. In everyday language we say soap, in “chemical language,” soap made from rapeseed oil is called:
Potassium canolate. And Aqua – that’s just regular water.
Non-ionic surfactants: surfactants (surface-active agents) are commonly used in cosmetics, liquid soaps, as wetting agents, and in cleaning products. They dissolve grease and dirt.
Potassium canolate: Soap that especially breaks down greasy dirt.
Chelating agent: Regulates water hardness so the detergent works even in hard water.
CMC, Polycarboxylates: Made from thinned-out Finnish forests, these thicken the detergent and help release dirt into the wash water.
Potassium citrate: Regulates the pH value.
Our scented detergents contain
Aqua, Non-ionic surfactants, Soap Potassium canolate (saponified rapeseed oil), Polycarboxylates, Chelating agent,
Potassium citrate, Parfum, Ethanol.
Unscented detergent contains:
Aqua, Non-ionic surfactants, Soap Potassium canolate (saponified rapeseed oil), Polycarboxylates, Chelating agent, Potassium citrate.
pH value approx. 11