“Shepherd’s Cream: The Best-Kept Secret of the Netherlands”

Sales of the cream have always been good, says Schuttelaar. “The label has not kept up with the times and it looks a bit old-fashioned, but it continues to run fine,” he laughs. Schuttelaar says that the shepherd’s cream is manufactured in the Netherlands, but cannot be deduced from which wool the cream comes. “I don’t know if it really comes from Veluwe sheep. It certainly contains a lot of wool fat, lanolin. And most of the wool fat we use in the Netherlands comes from Germany. So you can assume that this wool fat also comes from Germany. “