Birch Tar Soap by Klar

Klar makes for us an utterly pure curd soap (for which pure olive oil and coconut oil are now used instead of palm oil) and – based on this soap – three time-honoured, so-called functional soaps. Klar adds a substance of proven benefit to each of these soaps: sulphur, natural brine and birch tar, respectively. You find the soaps in this composition exclusively in our range.

Birch tar, which is obtained from birch bark by dry distillation, has been used since time immemorial to treat skin impurities. The birch tar oil added here (approx. 1%) is a naturally pure essential oil. Klar has it extracted from the hanging birch (Betula pendula).

At a prosperous time for the old trading city Heidelberg, in 1840 Philipp Klar opened a soap works and store in the city centre at a “Hauptstrasse” address. This address became the cornerstone of a soap tradition which is now in the fifth generation. “At Klar’s”, as the employees fondly refer to the company these days, the best raw materials are processed, with the proven procedures and recipes which have been handed down. The result is soap of indisputable quality, without dyes or preservatives.