Article number: 8718657192284 View all of Werfzeep > View more: Soap & Shower gel > Werfzeep collaborates with the Botanical Gardens Utrecht. A cross-pollination! The Botanical Gardens are home to a wealth of special plants, and Werfzeep uses them to make special soaps. This first edition is made with myrtle and papyrus, harvested in the Botanical Gardens. We harvested, dried and shredded the papyrus into soap and distilled the myrtle into hydrolate. It is the first of a series and has become a very tasty, fresh-sweet-earthy soap. In this blog you can find the process of filleting papyrus and making soap. Ingredients: saponified oils of coconut*, olive*, cocoa butter* and sunflower*; water; myrtle hydrolate×; essential oils of eucalyptus*, lemongrass*, patchouli*, turmeric*, orange* and lemon*; dried papyrus×. INCI (equal to packaging, international nomenclature): sodium cocoate*, sodium olivate*, sodium cocoa butterate*, aqua, sodium sunflowerate*, myrthus communis water×, aroma?, cyperus papyrus×, citralo, limoneneo, geraniolo. *certified organic, ?organic essential oils, ×Botanical Gardens, onatural component of essential oils. Product specifications - Mirte & Papyrus Item description Item number 8718657192284 Version Mirte & Papyrus Product type Solid soap Country of origin Netherlands Werf soaps are wonderfully mild, caring soaps, full of nourishing oils and naturally occurring glycerine. Plant-based, organic and lovingly handmade in Utrecht. Werf soap is intended for sensitive skin and therefore suitable for all of us. Due to their mild effect, our soaps are suitable as hand soap, shower soap and even for the face. The shampoo bars are also suitable as hand and shower soap. Plant-based We work with oils of the highest quality: plant-based, organic and food grade - even the essential oils - and therefore still full of beneficial substances. For this, we work together with growers who share the same conviction. We also pick some of the plants in our beloved Wickenburgh forest. Here we maintain our soap herb garden and harvest various ingredients that have been growing here for centuries. Free from palm oil and irritants We never work with palm oil, animal fats or irritants such as perfume oil, dyes or foam improvers. We make rich soap from rich raw materials, which also feels right at home on the washbasin! Werfzeep is biodegradable and of course not tested on animals. Except for the honey soap and shampoo - both with honey from a local, organic beekeeper - our entire range is vegan. Organic & handmade We make all soaps by hand, in a large pan, in our soap studio on the Westerkade in Utrecht. Per batch we make one hundred and fifty pieces in one block, which is cut after twenty-four hours. After this, the soap matures for a few more weeks in our drying cabinets. After this process, a piece of Werf soap weighs approximately 100 grams. When the soaps are ready to be packed, they are cycled to the social workshop of Wij aan de Werf. Here they are packed by a super team of soap packers, in a wharf cellar on the Oudegracht, close to our soap studio. Environmental information about Werf soap originated in 2009 from Evelien's love for old crafts and natural products. During a trip through Canada that she and Laurens made, she ended up on an idyllic family farm where, among other things, soap was made, with a ladle and a huge pan. The wooden house smelled like a fairytale and on the very first day Evelien helped make soap. To her surprise, this handmade soap, which was in the shower and by the sink, was soft and caring for her skin. Having been plagued by eczema since childhood, soap had been a no-go for years, but this soap turned out to be a completely different story than everything she had encountered up until then, which mainly gave her tight skin. Soap made from oils is a completely different product than factory soap made from refined fatty acids, with additives such as foam improvers, synthetic perfumes and preservatives, from which the glycerine has also been skimmed off. This discovery was enough for Evelien to become completely fascinated by soap, the artisanal soap-making process, all possible ingredients and the effect on the skin. She started developing her soaps in a historic wharf cellar on the Oudegracht in Utrecht. Now, eight years later, she works with a growing team in the beautiful soap studio on the Westerkade.