I think it’s all green-washing personally.
I use washing up liquid, water (ooh! that’s a chemical) a bit of bleach, Cif and Flash (occasionally I use Harpic down the loo). That’s usually all I need.
In the ad Purdy and Figg say they started up the company because they had so many cleaning products under their sinks.
Do they think we’re stupid? Obviously! 🙄
So why didn’t they just get rid of the extraneous ones and whittle it down to the ones they liked the most? Hey Presto! No, need to start up another company.
But, no, they started up the company because they want your money and they know how to get it by appealing to your sense of guilt every time you use a plastic container or a “nasty” chemical. Yet, they offer you a free micro-fibre cloth which is basically …. errrr PLASTIC!
Yes, I’ve been there with the guilt trip of using “nasty chemicals” and too much plastic too. I’ve been down the road of trying bicarbonate of soda, white vinegar and lemon or lime juice (still chemicals of course but not nasty apparently).
They all worked well and I did feel quite virtuous when I spring-cleaned my kitchen and bathroom with them a couple of years ago, but they create quite a bit of mess themselves with all the mixing together to a paste business. And, I probably used three times as much of them to get the same result, so not really that cost-effective in the end. But that’s a good way of avoiding the so called “nasty” chemicals if it makes you feel better and you’ve got the time, energy and inclination to do the cleaning and then clean up the cleaning products.
Do yourselves a favour though and don’t be taken in by all this guilt-tripping nonsense. Clean your house with whatever you like and what you can afford and then buy some essential oils if your house must smell of ylang-ylang and put a few drops in a bowl of water in your kitchen or wherever.
Plus, if anybody is really serious about wanting to help the planet 🌎 forget feeling guilty about putting a few plastic bottles in the recycling and just STOP FLYING!
It’s taken me sixty years on this planet to realise this and I’m not being fooled any longer. It’s really up to governments to legislate against single use plastics and force all major retail outlets to offer refills or else make sure packaging is plastic free. How come they don’t feel guilty about it?
Don’t let the neo-liberals guilt-trip you into buying what’s not necessary, unless of course you feel you must in order to make up for the three trips abroad you make by plane every year.