Viennese cord soap

It is rather unusual to use sage oil in a shower soap, but it is an obvious choice as it has an antiperspirant effect. It also imparts a pleasantly tart, spicy, herbaceous fragrance. Wheat germ oil and lanolin also nourish the skin.

Like all soaps from Wiener Manufaktur, the Vienna cord soap is cold-boiled on the basis of coconut oil (organic). It foams pleasantly, removes gently but thoroughly and cares for the hands with almond, grape seed and sunflower oil (all organic). Particularly practical: thanks to the cord, it can be hung up anywhere (ideal when traveling) and can dry well after use.

The Wiener Seifenmanufaktur manufactures soaps on a purely vegetable basis using a cold-stirring process. Although the term suggests otherwise, cold stirring does not do entirely without heat. However, it is not supplied from outside, but is generated naturally during the saponification process with lye and oil - in the case of Wiener Seifen, the well-foaming and particularly compatible coconut oil is used. This gentle but labor-intensive process means that up to 15% of the vegetable oils remain unsaponified and can develop their nourishing effect on the skin and hair. The moisturizing glycerine is also retained during cold stirring. The soaps are enriched with natural oils and plantnextracts, most of which come from controlled organic cultivation.

The "Stadlauer cold-stirred coconut oil soaps" from soap maker Friedrich Weiss were once the last handmade soaps in Vienna. And they were popular beyond the city limits. Although Weiss died unexpectedly in 2006, his idealistic legacy lived on. Sonja Baldauf, who had originally planned to sell the Wiener Seifen in Switzerland, did everything she could to keep Weiss's ideas, standards and recipes alive under the name "Wiener Seife". Today, the Wiener Seifenmanufaktur is once again a pure family business, as Baldauf's partner is now solely responsible for production - after completing his late training as a soap maker. Some soap varieties have been taken over from Weiss, many more have been developed in-house and new ones are constantly being added.