Olive Oil Soap Rooted in Ritual and Reverence.
Saipua is a creative collective founded by Sarah Ryhanen and her mother, Susan, devoted to the dual arts of soapmaking and flower arranging. The story began humbly in Brooklyn in 2006, though Susan had been making soap since 1999, using olive oil and a shoebox mould. From these early experiments, a signature cold-pressed bar was born—pure, plant-based, and full of soul.
Now based at Worlds End Farm in Esperance, New York, Saipua is home to over 200,000 bars of handmade soap each year, poured by Susan using moulds made by her husband, Pentti. Inspired by Finnish heritage and a reverence for daily ritual, Saipua’s soaps are crafted with care and scented with botanicals to transform the everyday into something sacred. Beyond soap, Saipua has grown into a world of objects, education, and earthy expression—inviting deeper connection to the natural world.
process Saipua
Once the olive oil soap has been poured by Pentti, Sarah’s husband, it is hand-wrapped in Bertini paper from Italy by the World's End Farm team.
Embarking on a migration away from urban floristry and into the rural fringe, Saipua rooted itself at Worlds End Farm, in 2011. 107 acres of rocky clay soil 40 miles west of Albany located on ancestral Mohawk land in Esperance, New York. The land is managed as a small-scale diversified homestead farm.
Each handmade bar of natural Saipua soap combines saponified oils of olive, coconut, and castor with shea butter and essential oils.