Savion Seife: Sportler- und Reiseseife

I am spending the next few months in a tiny town a half hour train ride east of Nuremberg. A year ago this would be an idea I would have laughed at but somehow I ended up here and so far it at been a wonderfully wholesome and enjoyable experience.

  Family friends visited me in SF a while back and on the side told me that if I would like to come visit them and work for them at their organic soap company I am more than welcome, low and behold I took them up on the offer and have been working with them for the last three weeks.

  Making soap is not really something I foresaw myself doing but it has been very fun! Good soaps consist of a combination of various oils (from nuts and olives and other non animal sources) concentrated scents of your choice, and if you like you can even throw in lavender or cloves or other lovely textures.

  Here is a link to see what they have: http://www.savion.de/

  Their most popular products are their hairsoaps: Henna, Aloe, Goat milk, Sheep milk, stinging nettle, lemon balm, etc. (http://www.savion.de/default/haarwaschseifen-1.html)

  And of course since I work for them I figure I should test out their products!

  Review of two showers use of the Sportler- und Resiseseife

  Translation: Athletic and Trip/Journey Soap

  Hair still feels soft, on the second day it doesn't look as greasy as when I use Herbal Essences Moisture Madness shampoo and conditioner.

  Or course these soaps don't have conditioner and on the first day I put in some Argon Oil into my hair to flatten the crazy fly aways which made it look greasier than it would have. Air drying makes it look nicer than blow drying (again with the stray hairs of frustration)

  Though a bummer about these soaps is that you shouldn't brush your hair until it is properly dry to prevent split ends. Of course that might be a common rule for all showers and I just didn't know about it until now. Instead you are allowed to use a 3-5 pronged comb, and in my experience there are more knots that when I use Herbal Essences.

  However, I can't even pronounce most of the ingredients on an Herbal Essences bottle, and considering that at Savion Seife they use only organic products in their soaps and I can still read the ingredients list even though it is in German, that's pretty sweet.

  Though I should edit that statement: They aren't allowed to state their hairsoaps are organic, only to say they contain organic items. This is because one or two of the ingredients, oils of names I can't remember, are so expensive when organic that they would have to up their soap prices by an entire Euro. ($6.83 to $8.17) Since their soaps are already close to being luxury priced (or are they considered luxury at over $6.50 already?) they determined to have two of the ingredients be cheaper for the customers. They would love to use only organic items for the hairsoaps but they don't believe customers would pay for it. Good sound judgement call on their part. And besides, their soap is already ten to twenty times better for the environment than name brand shampoos and conditioners!