baska822612/1/2024
I'm about to order this soap for the second time. I use it for pre-treating light-coloured laundry. It gets out bloodstains or food stains beautifully. I won't hear a word against it.
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Doing the laundry does not have to mean a shelf full of plastic bottles and gels with endless ingredient lists. Coconut laundry soap is an honest white bar with gentle marbling, made from pure coconut oil by the cold process — nothing more, nothing less. The glycerine that forms naturally during saponification stays in the soap and helps dirt let go. And since the whole soap is fully biodegradable, you are holding an eco-friendly alternative to laundry detergent that leaves behind neither packaging nor a guilty conscience.
How do you wash with coconut laundry soap?
For hand washing, just rub the laundry lightly and you get a lather that does the washing. For the machine, grate the soap on a coarse grater straight into the drum — roughly a handful for a full load — and you can wash reliably at 40 to 90 °C. Soapmakers value coconut oil for its rich lather that cleans reliably — and here it has the whole soap to itself.
We admit one limitation openly: the soap has an alkaline pH, so wool and silk are best left aside. For everyday laundry it is just the thing. Instead of fabric softener, try a little citric acid and a few drops of lavender essential oil — a simple substitute with nothing unnecessary. A two-hundred-gram bar also goes a long way: you grate only as much as you need, and meanwhile nothing evaporates or leaks from an open bottle.
To lather is human. Doing the laundry honestly is human too. You will find more helpers in our eco-friendly household range, you can read about the role of coconut oil in soap in our ingredient encyclopaedia, and how soap is made from oil and alkali is covered in our “In translation” piece on saponification.
