No. 01 · We wash with
Lavandula angustifolia
Lavender
Steam-distilled essential oil, used for scent and a mild antimicrobial effect. Say where yours comes from.
What we wash with
Five plants. Nothing else.
The wash agent we use on every load is cold-process saponified at our workshop — coconut and olive base, infused with lavender, lemon peel and rosemary. Published in full, because you should know what touches your skin.
No. 02 · We wash with
Cocos nucifera
Coconut
Cold-pressed Indonesian coconut oil, saponified at the workshop. The cleaning fraction — the lift that pulls oil from a weave.
No. 03 · We wash with
Olea europaea
Olive
A soft, conditioning oil that rests against skin without stripping. The body of the agent, and the reason wool returns as wool.
No. 04 · We wash with
Citrus limon
Lemon peel
Cold-pressed peel oil. Brightens whites without a single drop of chlorine. Used on the whites cycle only.
No. 05 · We wash with
Rosmarinus officinalis
Rosemary
Dried sprigs steeped in hot olive oil for fourteen days, then strained. A clean herbal finish on the linen and bedding cycle.
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The wash agent, in full
One formula. Five plants. Nothing hidden.
This is the wash agent we use on every load at the workshop. It is not for sale; we use it ourselves, and we publish it so you can read it.
There is no commercial variant. The wash you smell in your linens is the wash we use behind the door.
Not in the agent
What we leave out, on purpose.
Each of these is in roughly every commercial laundry detergent. None of them touches your clothes here. We considered each, and chose against.
- PhosphatesWater-softening salts. Banned in many places already; we have never used them. They feed algal blooms downstream.
- Optical brightenersUV-fluorescing dyes that make whites look brighter under daylight without actually being cleaner. Persistent on skin.
- Synthetic fragranceA blanket 'parfum' line on a label does not say what is inside. We use steam-distilled oils, named on this page.
- Chlorine bleachEffective. Also corrosive to fibres, and reactive with ammonia. We brighten with lemon peel and time on a line.
- Fabric softenersCationic surfactants that coat fibres. They reduce towel absorbency and seed waterway micro-pollution.
- Enzyme cocktails from unnamed sourcesCommon in modern detergents. We could not get a straight answer on their origin, so we left them out.
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