The added mint oil has a cooling and invigorating effect and provides a freshness kick in the morning, but the mint soap is also ideal for showering after sport or on hot summer days.

Like all Wiener Manufaktur soaps, the Viennese cord soap is cold-boiled on a coconut oil base. It foams pleasantly, removes gently but thoroughly and cares for the hands with almond, grape seed and sunflower oil. 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 leaves up to 15 percent of the vegetable oils unsaponified and allows them to develop their nourishing effect on the skin and hair. The moisturizing glycerine is also retained during cold stirring. The soaps are enriched with pure natural oils and plantnextracts.

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 training as a soap maker late in life. Some soap varieties have been taken over from Weiss, many more have been developed in-house and new ones are constantly being added.