Hey! Your laundry detergent makes you itch!

laundry detergent for sensitive skin

Sensitive skin? Your laundry detergent might be the culprit.

Are you desperate to find a laundry detergent for sensitive skin? You are at the right place!

Did you know that most traditional laundry detergents contain artificial enzymes? That is bad for sensitive skin!

What are enzymes?

Enzymes are very harsh chemicals that act like small selective scissors that break stains into pieces. So enzymes are great at stain removal, and that is why they are put into most laundry soaps. These laundry soaps are often called biological laundry soap. Unfortunately, artificial enzymes do not completely wash out of your clothes and that is why if you have sensitive skin, you sometimes itch and burn even from wearing clean clothes.

The Allergy Foundation of South Africa recommends that if you suffer from sensitive skin or atopic dermatitis, you should stay away from biological laundry detergents that contain enzymes.

I have sensitive skin. What am I to do?

Rather use Mrs Martin’s LAUNDRY!

Literally hundreds of housekeepers choose our laundry detergent for sensitive skin issues. We include no enzymes in our LAUNDRY soap, so LAUNDRY is NOT biological. Our next generation technology goes a step further: we include spores of indigenous microbes. Microbes are intelligent enzyme generators: they see what dirt they are up against – protein or fat or starch – and then they produce the correct enzyme to break that down. This all happens on a microscopic level so the amount of enzymes are far reduced.

Instead of a shotgun approach where you have to include large amounts of all the enzymes just to be sure, our friendly microbes produce small amounts of exactly the correct enzyme only. We call this technology biologically active.

So next time you itch, or your husband complains of itchy skin, give our LAUNDRY a try.

And remember to let me know how it went!

Cheerio

Why must I pay to return empty containers?

return empty containers

Did you know you can return empty containers to us? If you are anything like me, you hate throwing out a strong, lightweight, durable container after only one use. When you return your empty containers to us, we really use them again.

If you want to return empty containers, go to mrsmartins.co.za and look for the product ‘Return Used Containers’. Add it to your cart and we will know to ask the courier to collect a parcel when he delivers your order. This service costs you a small fee.

Why do we charge you a fee to collect your used containers? Because we are mainly an online shop, everything we offer involves couriers. Unfortunately couriers charge per weight or volume, depending on which is bigger. That means they charge a full courier fee for picking up the containers even if it is light, because it is large.

We try to arrange that they pick up the parcel when they deliver your order, this way we try to minimise unnecessary carbon emissions. Also, if they can complete the delivery and pick up in one trip, we might one day be able to negotiate a discount on the fees. Very often however, lines get crossed and the courier arrives at your door twice. Please do pardon the inefficiency and know that we are working to educate all parties regarding small footprints and such!

We hope that as our delivery volume picks up we can negotiate better rates in the future, but for now we pay a full courier fee to have your containers collected. In order to keep this service sustainable, we ask you to pay a portion thereof.

Of course, if you stay in Pretoria, you can deliver the containers to us or to Brooklyn’s Banting Market at no extra cost.

Thank you so much for being a responsible, intelligent consumer. We trust that we will all reap the rewards in the future.

“I Certainly Don’t Want To Use Rotten Soap, Thank You!”

We call our products biological because they contain spores of beneficial microbes. These guys hatch when they get water and the right temperatures. They then analyse what is going on around them and produce the correct enzyme to digest whatever they find to eat. Normally what they see as food, is what we see as dirt. A better symbiosis could not be found!

There are no hatched microbes in your soap. There are only spores, or ‘seeds’ if you will. These spores are quite tough. They tolerate temperatures between freezing and 90 degrees Celsius. To keep them stable, we use low levels of potassium sorbate and citric acid. We do not use any other preservatives.

We guarantee our liquid soaps for one year from manufacture, and our dry products for two years. After this, the spores are probably still fine, but the natural ingredients that make up the soap may start to become runny and smell more chemical. The soap never becomes dangerous, but it may be less pleasant to work with, and it may lose functionality.

Do you have a technical question about our products? Do not hesiate to contact me!

“Hey! Don’t You Dare Throw Out That Strong, Light Container!”

Do you feel that horrible niggle when you throw ‘away’ your fourth yoghurt tub and another empty milk bottle in just one week? I do!

I’m not an activist and I do not live in constant fear of annihilation. But running my household in a responsible and intelligent way is important to me. Throwing ‘away’ a fantastically light and strong container that was USED ONLY ONCE does not seem to be either.

Mrs Martin

The way we see it, plastic is a great material because it is light and strong. It is exactly the kind of material that should be used over and over again, for years. After that, it can be recycled once or twice. True, by that time it will end up in landfill, but it would have saved so much energy during its working life, that the net impact is favourable.

Just imagine: we transport your soap to you in a 5l PET bottle. The fact that the bottle is strong means the courier drives less, because it does not break along the way. The fact that the bottle is very light means the courier can carry more product in one trip, so he makes less trips! Over several years, the delivery of your product creates a smaller footprint, and if you send back five empty 5l bottles every year, you have kept a whole lot of plastic off landfill!

That’s why we accept your used containers and really use them again. Visit our website to see how you can do it.

That’s also why we offer concentrate refills and bulk buying options for thicker soap that cannot be concentrated. We take the single use plastic problem off your shoulders and offer you a chance at a clean conscience.

A clean conscience? That’s worth a whole lot!