Dip tubes are cut to length by us. This saves money for our customers as we would have to pay our suppliers to do it then pass the cost on. It also makes the pumps reusable. If the excess length is curled around the bottle bottom, the soap degrades it and eventually cracks and breaks the tube making a still functioning pump unusable.
We don’t store made up bottles of soap. They are bottled from stored bulk, so as a customer you effectively get a brand new bottle every time you order.
Our bottles are 30% recycled plastic. We think reuse is better than recycling, so that’s what we ask our customers to do. Use your bottles and pumps until they break, don’t just throw them out after a single use. You can get spare bottles and pumps from us and bulk refills in 2.5L and 5L quantities which also work out cheaper.
Labels are paper and recyclable so we don’t pass on the cost of expensive pre-printed bottles to our customers. If yours become damaged/unsightly, we’ll send you free spares if you cover the cost of postage. They’re not self adhesive so you have to affix them yourself.
You can dilute our soap to make it go further and to make it usable in foam dispensers. You can also scent the soap yourself.
Some of our packaging is pre purchased and we reuse boxes and envelopes we have received goods in when we can. For spillage prevention during transit we use biodegradable plastic bags. Paper and card used is recyclable.
Our liquid soaps are 100% olive oil with added vegetable glycerine. The liquid soap manufacturing process is slightly different from bar soap, where glycerine is developed naturally during the bars one month maturation. Glycerine is not as prevalent in liquid soap, hence the reason it is added.
We only use natural essential oils for fragrance never artificial fragrance oils. These are added at 1% concentration when the soap is bottled. Technically we could add more but we don’t want scents to be overpowering.
All of our soaps are biodegradable so when you flush them down the drain environmental impact is minimal if not non-existent.
We absolutely do not test on animals. All of our soaps are assessed for safety using our written formulations.
Our soaps are superfatted. This means that during manufacture we use more oil than the alkali can turn into soap. This in turn means there is a slight moisturising benefit from the leftover oil but more importantly, all the alkali is used up. If any was left in the final product it would be irritating/drying to your skin.