Which soap is best, yellow or green?

 

What is the actual difference between green soap and yellow soap? Many people think the color of the bottle is the only difference, but the truth is somewhat different! Let’s take a deeper look at this topic and reveal what really sets these two cleaning products apart. Then, with that knowledge in hand, we can determine which is best for different purposes.

 

 

A common question, and the answer is simply that neither is better than the other. If you are looking at two relatively inexpensive soaps, one green and the other yellow, the only difference between them is almost certainly the color of the bottle and the fragrance.

The fact is that genuine old-fashioned green soap is no longer made in Sweden.

Green soap was green because it was boiled with hemp oil. When hemp cultivation was banned in Sweden, hemp oil also disappeared, and so did green soap. Green soap sold in stores today is therefore most likely yellow soap that has been dyed.

What you should ask yourself instead is whether you need a fatty soap or whether a soap without excess fat will do. Pine soaps rarely contain much excess fat and are therefore well suited to bathrooms and plastic flooring, and even as window cleaner.

Fatty soaps such as Soapa and linseed oil soaps contain a greater excess of fat and are therefore suitable for natural materials such as wood and stone, greasy kitchen dirt, heavily soiled outdoor surfaces, stables or garages, bathrooms, ovens, treating decking, patios, and so on.

So which soap is best? Well, that depends on what you intend to use it for!

 

 

Find superfatting and alkaline soaps here: Soapa

 

 

 

Soapa is yellow. Soapa is made from corn and rapeseed oil—cooking oil that is purified and saponified. Rapeseed and corn oils are very similar to linseed oil, so Soapa has the same nourishing properties as linseed oil soap. This means it contains an excess of fat, making it easy to dissolve greasy dirt with fatty soap; it also re-greases and nourishes wooden floors, furniture, and everything else made of wood.

 

Shop Soapa here

 

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- Why is traditional green soap no longer made in Sweden?

 

Traditional green soap was made from hemp oil, but when hemp cultivation was banned, access to this oil also disappeared, and so did green soap.

 

 

- What uses are best suited to soaps with a higher fat content, such as Soapa and linseed oil soaps?

 

Soaps with a higher fat content are suitable for natural materials such as wood and stone, greasy kitchen dirt, heavily soiled outdoor surfaces, stables or garages, bathrooms, ovens, treating decking, patios, and similar uses.