27 Nov 2024
There’s no denying that washing our hands is good for our health. It cuts our chances of stomach bugs by up to 40%, the risk of a cold by 21% and reduces the number of days our kids miss from school by up to 60%.*
BUT what about all those single-use plastic bottles filled with liquid hand soap?
Are they good for our health, or the health of our planet? The average 2 person household goes through at least 24 of these every year** and most of them end up in landfill…
…is there a better alternative out there?
Yes there is.
Our refillable foaming handwash with its fabulous starter kit.
thumbs up for smol’s foaming hand wash.
1. no more single-use plastic bottles and pumps to landfill.
We’ve got to stop sending plastic to landfill.
So… we’ve come up with a refillable foaming hand wash bottle that’s already made from recycled plastic AND can remove up to 24 unnecessary plastic bottles from your life PER YEAR. As each year ticks by, that’s even more plastic bottles you’ve avoided.
Millions of single-use liquid soap bottles and their non recyclable pumps end up in UK landfills every year, they’re in our environment for good…
Time to wash our hands of them. Refill not landfill. It just makes sense.
2. ditches chemical nasties.
We wash our hands because we want to stay healthy… we don’t want to smother our skin in parabens, phthalates and triclosan. But when we use a liquid hand soap - chances are we do just that.
These chemicals are ALL linked to issues around hormone disruption in humans. Despite EU bans, these ingredients are still allowed in liquid hand soap.
smol foaming handwash is FREE from parabens, phthalates and triclosan, so you can rest assured that your skin (the largest organ in your body) is not absorbing these hormone-disrupting chemicals every time you wash your hands.
Finally, since foaming hand soap uses just air to create the rich, foamy lather, no artificial foaming agents need to be added to the formula (unlike its liquid soap counterpart).
3. cuts your carbon footprint.
Why ship heavy bottles of (mostly water) liquid hand soap all around the place?
We’ve already got all the water we need at home in our kitchen tap. So let’s mix things up a little. Dilute just one lightweight 8g refill tablet for 300ml of fantastic foaming hand soap. You'll cut carbon by up to 80% by ditching those heavy liquid soap bottles.
4. stops £££s rinsing down the drain.
Foaming handwash uses less soap per pump than a liquid soap (which overdoses on what you need per wash). You’ll also use up to 20% less water when you wash your hands because the rinse process is shorter than with liquid hand soap.
You can even use foaming hand soap without wetting your hands first and just use the water to rinse at the end!
Now you can stop rinsing all that excess soap down the plughole and rest assured your hands will be just as clean.
5. fun with foam.
Finally, who doesn’t love bubbles? Have your own foam party at your sink and walk away with clean hands. It’s a no brainer.
*CDC 2020
**Reduit 2020