Walseife

Walseife was a Protected Regional Product under the Xäiville Convention

Walseife was a soft soap made out of whale (or dolphin) fat and caustic potash that was most traditionally used for household cleaning. Walseife was not hydrogenated, giving the soap a particular smell, considered to be somewhat fishy, that not everyone can appreciate but that was associated with cleanliness in Walstadt and Light. The soap, that was not widely exported, was a protected regional product according to the rules of the Xäiville Convention, until this was revoked by the Lanzerwald Republic following the 1754 Agricultural reorganisation in the Lanzerwald These rules demanded that the whales that were caught for Walseife were brought ashore in Walstadt, either whole or dismembered, and that the extraction of the fat and the production of the soap also took place in the city district of Walstadt.