Myrarnas Guld cloth, designed by Sara Idenfors
Myrarnas Guld cloth, designed by Sara Idenfors
Myrarnas Guld cloth, designed by Sara Idenfors
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About the Product
Bring the gold of the marshes into your kitchen. This dishcloth from Västerbottenssåpa does more than just dry; it brightens up your home with both the colours and the feeling of Västerbotten’s vast, sun-warmed marshes, filled with sweet, tangy and delicious cloudberries. Here in northern Sweden, cloudberries have brightened our darkest winter months for generations. On Nobel Day, we serve vanilla ice cream with warm cloudberries in our homes; on a Monday morning in November, we top our porridge with a couple of generous spoonfuls of cloudberry jam; and with our Sunday coffee, we serve the finest treat we have—almond tartlets with whipped cream and cloudberries. This dishcloth is a tribute to our much-loved cloudberries: an everyday hero that lifts your spirits before eventually heading to the compost with a clear conscience.
See also our cloudberry-scented soap spray!
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Half a million Swedish households clean with Västerbottenssåpa
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Natural & Reused Ingredients
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Free from Toxins, Parabens, and Preservatives
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All our products are manufactured in Vilhelmina, Västerbotten.
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Refills made from “Prevented Ocean Plastic”
What sets Västerbottenssåpa apart from “ordinary” soaps bought at the grocery store?
Västerbottenssåpa is a circular product made from reused, purified, and saponified rapeseed oil—entirely without new oil raw materials. The soap has properties similar to linseed oil soap and is naturally superfatted. This means it retains a greater surplus of nourishing oils after saponification than ordinary soap from the grocery store, making it especially effective, conditioning, and replenishing for your surfaces.
Frying oil becomes soap: “Eco-friendly and climate-smart”
It has always been important to us to make real soap, without adding unnecessary chemicals, and to deliver nothing but PURE soap.
The history of Västerbottenssåpa began in the 1920s, when great-grandmother Fredrika made her own fine soap at home on the farm in Hornsjö, Vilhelmina.
Three generations later, Fredrika’s legacy of living sustainably and frugally, and reusing materials, lives on in the family—albeit in a modern version adapted to the times we live in today.
Our soap, based on Fredrika’s recipe, has been given packaging, a label, and a name—Västerbottenssåpa.
Instead of the sheep fat Fredrika used, Västerbottenssåpa is now made from used cooking oil collected from selected local restaurants. It is mostly rapeseed oil or a corn and rapeseed oil blend—but NEVER palm oil or animal fat.
The oil, which is purified and saponified, then forms the basis of all our soap-based cleaning products.
It has always been important to us to make real soap, without adding unnecessary chemicals, and to deliver nothing but PURE soap.
The history of Västerbottenssåpa began in the 1920s, when great-grandmother Fredrika made her own fine soap at home on the farm in Hornsjö, Vilhelmina.
Three generations later, Fredrika’s legacy of living sustainably and frugally, and reusing materials, lives on in the family—albeit in a modern version adapted to the times we live in today.
Our soap, based on Fredrika’s recipe, has been given packaging, a label, and a name—Västerbottenssåpa.
Instead of the sheep fat Fredrika used, Västerbottenssåpa is now made from used cooking oil collected from selected local restaurants. It is mostly rapeseed oil or a corn and rapeseed oil blend—but NEVER palm oil or animal fat.
The oil, which is purified and saponified, then forms the basis of all our soap-based cleaning products.
Let us tell you how it all fits together
Because the soap is made from recycled raw materials—that is, it is circular—the product’s CO2 emissions are very low. One bottle of soap, including production, packaging, and transportation, has CO2 emissions of approximately 237 g. This can be compared with the emissions from producing 1 kg of palm oil, which are approximately 10 kg.
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Canola oil is produced as a food product
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Rapeseed oil is used by restaurants throughout the country.
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Västerbottenssåpa sources the oil that is purified at the small factory in Vilhelmina. It is then saponified into soft soap.
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The soap will be mailed to you.