Pataholm Newsletter Blog

SÅPA Does not foam

Såpa does not foam - and that is a good thing.  It might feel weird at first, but skipping the bubbles is in your interest. And in the interest of our environment.  Modern cleaner have taught us th...

Removing Grafitti with flower power

How to remove grafitti with the power of flowers

A bread recipe from The Bread Exchange

I have one rye bread that I make fairly often these days. To me, it is the perfect loaf since I feel like I need nothing but butter to go with it.

USE THE LEAST CLEANER THE MATERIAL NEEDS

With today's blog post, I want to talk about something that is easy to overlook: it makes an insane difference what you use to clean a material. If you want materials to last and stay beautiful ove...

Next adventure: BASEL

My family is three weeks into our next life adventure: Basel, Switzerland.  The company Pataholm Soap is staying in Pataholm, just like before. All production is staying in Sweden. But we are widen...

Summer Sauna

If you ask me, NOW is when the real sauna season starts. Now when the weather is beautiful, but still a bit too chilly to really be in the ocean. The days are longer, and you can enjoy the sauna, t...

Newsletter April - Time for outdoor care

Dear friends of Pataholm Såpa, Spring has finally reached Småland. It took its time this year. I started cleaning the outdoor furniture last week. That’s usually how I know spring has arrived. In ...

Invitation to carpet cleaning in Pataholm

Klapphuset, Kalmar – washing carpets the old way Kalmar, the city closest to Pataholm, is incredibly beautiful. There is one particular building, built on wooden pillars directly in the water, that...

Pataholm - a SPA resort with history

Our soaps are partly inspired by the historic spa tradition of Pataholm, a coastal village along the Kalmar Strait in Sweden, where a renowned spa resort opened in 1885. Surrounded by forests and t...

Why our Såpa Works on Natural Fibers (like wool)

Imagine that something can be as effective and strong as såpa, and at the same time extremely gentle. It took me a while to fully understand that linseed oil soap works for much more than cleaning....