Ecover

greenmoneysaver_2

Hello I'm new!

I use Ecover and like the products I have tried, but want to buy them thro Abel and Cole my organic food delivery people. However they are up to £1.50 more expensive then the supermarkets.

Since they are meant to be ethical, I find it a bit surprising as other organic food stuffs are priced the same at Abel and Cole and at the supermarkets. If they can do it why can't Ecover?

Jane

KateyNixon

Have you thought of washing your clothes with eco-balls. They wash using oxygen not soap and I find them better than ecover and really economical.

The idea is that you put a ball full of little pellets into the wash and use stain remover on any bad stains. This way most of your wash is 100% evirnomentally friendly.

competitionscafe

pink_phantom wrote:

Where do you get Bio D and clearspring from and how much are they?

Don't know if they are the cheapest, but you can bulk buy Bio D (5 Litre or 1 litre sizes) from the World Wildlife Fund (and so are supporting a charity):

https://shop.wwf.org.uk/store/Range.aspx?act=cid1013_13

They also do a Bio D sample pack for £10:
https://shop.wwf.org.uk/store/Detail.aspx?pid=121179
(One 1 litre pack of each of the following - Washing up Liquid, Laundry Liquid, Fabric Conditioner, Multi-surface cleaner and Glass and Mirror cleaner)

Clearspring can be bought in 5 litre and 1 litre sizes from Faith in Nature:
http://www.faithproducts.com/shop_frameset.asp
(Orders £35 and over are free delivery (not bad for such heavy products!) Orders over £50 get a 10% discount) = so worth bulk buying for free delivery and 10% off - they do shower gels, soaps, shampoo and other stuff too...

lottie$_2

For info - you can get Ecover refills in the open market in Brighton

HappySad

I am moving over to ecover because of the less chemicals in the home and then because of the environment.

I am very glad that everyone is happy with the performance of their products. This was what was first slowing me down with my introduction to the products. Now I can replace everything in the house with ecover then gradually replace some of that stuff with old style cleaning stuff like vinegar or what every you are suppose to use.


On normal cleaning products you have a danger cross or a caution section. On the toilet cleaner there is no such section. I have not bought the other cleaning products. Does this mean that if my son accidentally drank some then there is little or no harm? Would he need to seek medical assistant as it says on the normal cleaning products?


I have another question. Can I add food colouring to the toilet cleaner. It is clear & I can't see where I have sqirted the cleaner. With food colouring I can see what I have done.

Yet another quesiton. Can I add teatree oil to the hand wash. I want to do this because tea tree has a mild anti bacteria property (please correct me if I am wrong).

littleirishboy

try this link

https://www.ecozone.co.uk

and look for the eco balls wash kit

i use them. found them very good. If you are in a hard water area you really should get a water softener. I use these 90% of the time and ecover the rest just to fresehen the clothes up every so often, as they get rid of just general dirt but not hard stains.

I also use other ecover products and find them very economical...especially the washing up liquid and the multi surface cleanr (which i use for every cleaning job ion the house)

SaverSarah_2

I LURRVVE Ecover products, the smell alone is worth paying for!! I know they're not cheap, but I substitute the expense by no longer buying a ridiculous quantity of bathroom cleaner/kitchen cleaner/shower cleaner/goodness-knows-what-else cleaner and making my own with value vinegar and lemon juice.

(What a mug! Who really needs all those different types of cleaner when natural ingredients work so well! They must have seen me coming!) :rotfl:

I use Ecover Floor Soap, washing liquid (OP, did you know they do an eco bleach that you can use along with their washing liquid for real dirty clothes? I've got a boy, I know what you mean!!), fabric conditioner, washing up liquid, toilet cleaner (yeah, I know I could use vinegar etc for that but I have a cleaner once a week and she prefers it...).

Also, is it me or do their products seem to last longer than everything else?!

HappySad

Just seen that Tesco has just started their own range brand of "Ecover" products. Costing 20% less. So if Tesco has jumped on the band wagon of being environmentally friendly and give us less chemicals then I am sure that the other companies will follow this or next year.

Will be checking them out.

Seakay

jo_b wrote:

Slighty different to the original question posed, but I was surprised by how poorly Ecover rated in terms of being an 'ethical' product/supplier.

Have a look at www.ethiscore.org which gives different products a score based on different environmental and ethical criteria. Ecover products scored lower than I would have expected.

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Ecover does not have a fixed cut off date for animal testing, but instead has a 5 year rolling date
In the words of The Compassionate Shopping Guide (which does NOT endorse Ecover)

"Companies adopting a five year rolling rule only restrict the ingredients they use to ones which have not been tested on animals in the past five years. This approach leaves the door open for newly developed ingredients and does little to discourage animal testing".

I have to admit that I only became aware of this very recently, and so still have some Ecover products; I have been using Bio D washing up liquid for a while now, and find it very good, and now I am researching the Old Style forum and the web for recipes for home made products that I hope will be cheap, low impact and effective!

arkonite_babe

SaverSarah wrote:

(OP, did you know they do an eco bleach that you can use along with their washing liquid for real dirty clothes? I've got a boy, I know what you mean)

I have started to use this in my white washes. I can't recommend it highly enough.
my whites now positively sparkle

I have also found a very nice man in a health shop in Belfast who supplies the refils for certain ecover products. For example a 500ml bottle of washing up liquid cost me £1.11 to buy, refilliong the bottle will cost me 80p

Went out tonight and bought toilet cleaner and Sainsburys were selling out the laundry bleach at 90p so I took the last 3 packets for future use