Article number: 8719189416046 View all from Marcel's Green Soap > View more: All-purpose cleaner > Marcel's Green Soap All-purpose cleaner Orange & Jasmine Concentrated all-purpose cleaner based on vegetable soaps. With a very powerful degreasing and dirt-removing action for thorough cleaning. Our all-purpose cleaners are formulated so that once you start cleaning, you can't stop. That's why it's called all-purpose cleaner: everything in your home will be subjected to it. Countertops, floors, bathrooms and kitchens, everything will be clean like never before and, moreover, everything will smell wonderfully fresh again. • No dyes, parabens, phosphates, chlorine, ammonia or acids. • 100% natural, 99% biodegradable. Jasmine has a mysterious, intoxicating perfume and is also said to be a strong aphrodisiac. Orange adds much-needed sobriety and freshness to this. After all, we are here to clean. Did you know that you can easily refill the all-purpose cleaner spray with this concentrated all-purpose cleaner? It works as follows: Pour 125 ml of all-purpose cleaner into the spray bottle and then fill the bottle with tap water. And then... shake and spray! With a large bottle of all-purpose cleaner, you can refill the spray bottle 6 times. This saves a lot of plastic and ensures that we have to transport fewer bottles. Ingredients aqua, sodium laureth sulfate, sodium chloride, alcohol, cocamidopropyl betaine, perfume, tetrasodium glutamate diacetate, dipropylene glycol, linalool, isopropyl alcohol, hexyl cinnamal, glycerin, citronellol, benzisothiazolinone, limonene, benzyl salicylate, citral methylisothiazolinone, sodium hydroxide Product specifications All-purpose cleaner - Orange & Jasmine - Orange & Jasmine Article description All-purpose cleaner - Orange & Jasmine Article number 8719189416046 Version Orange & Jasmine Packaging type Standard Country of origin Netherlands Environmental information about All-purpose cleaner - Orange & Jasmine What does it mean that Marcel's Green Soap is 100% natural? The difference with regular household products lies in the type of chemicals. For example, we use vegetable, natural, biodegradable and safe chemicals in contrast to petrochemicals and synthetic chemicals. Every Marcel's Green Soap product is free of parabens, acids, ammonia, chlorine and dyes. Ingredients that can be harmful to the environment, your home or your body. Do you use animal testing during the production process? No. We absolutely do not use animals to test our products. We also know that our suppliers do not use animal testing. In addition, the products are safe to use in the vicinity of animals. Do you use palm and coconut ingredients? Yes. We use both palm and coconut ingredients. Our suppliers of palm and coconut oil ingredients are all Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certified sustainable palm oil suppliers. In doing so, we support growing sustainable palm and coconut oil products. RSPO is the only organization that actively works on sustainable palm oil products. Parties such as WWF, Greenpeace and Oxfam Novib are also affiliated with this organization. But isn't all that rainforest being cleared for palm oil? Unfortunately, much palm oil still comes from plantations where rainforest used to be. And the soil is also depleted, leading to erosion and soil impoverishment. The RSPO is trying to combat all this. They issue certificates to palm oil plantations that produce palm oil in a sustainable way. This does not always go well, of course, especially in countries where corruption is widespread. However, Marcel believes that the solution lies in better monitoring and regulating these registrations. If palm oil is cultivated in a good way, it is currently the best way for nature to meet the demand for this type of oil. But isn't it much better if no palm oil is used? Around 40 billion liters of palm oil are produced worldwide, about 5 liters per person worldwide. Palm oil is the most effective way to produce oil. But Marcel's Green Soap also believes that you should actively continue to look for alternatives to palm oil because we need the rainforests far too much! Are Marcel's Green Soap products biodegradable? All Marcel's Green Soap products are 99% biodegradable. By biodegradable, we mean that the entire product breaks down into CO2 and water within 28 days. Marcel's Green Soap products also contain salts, among other things. This is used for the pH, for dissolving dirt and also to make it a bit thicker. Salts can never be broken down into water and CO2, which is why it's 99%. What about the packaging? All Marcel's Green Soap packaging is made from 100% recycled plastic, also known as HDPE. Marcel's Green Soap is therefore the first brand in the Netherlands to only use recycled plastic in its packaging and thus contributes nothing to plastic pollution. In addition, Marcel's Green Soap bottles can be perfectly recycled again, so that new plastic is essentially never needed. This is a common plastic and therefore easy to recycle. Also, because no dye has been added to the bottle, the bottles are extra suitable for recycling. Why no plant plastics? Nowadays, bottles can also be made from plants, such as sugar cane or sugar beet. The disadvantage of sugar cane is that it has to come from the other side of the world, and while it may seem environmentally friendly, the CO2 footprint is not too favorable. And once the bottle is made, it is thrown away again, and there is still a plastic waste problem. That is why Marcel focuses mainly on the use of recycled plastic. What is the path to more sustainable packaging? Marcel wants everyone to only use recycled plastic, preferably the entire bottle. Every week, around 4 million cleaning product bottles are thrown away in the Netherlands. Marcel works closely with parties in the Netherlands and abroad to use plastic that has already been used as a bottle by the consumer. And not 10 or 15% like many brands, but preferably 100%. In this way, you ensure that no new raw materials need to be used. What should I do when the bottle is empty? A very friendly but also urgent request. Collect plastic separately. Marcel started doing this himself a few years ago and now realizes that half of his waste consists of plastic! The bottles are made of 100 HDPE (label too) so it can be recycled very well again. The bottle is then cut into small pieces, the plastic is washed and then it can be used again for a new bottle. Where is Marcel's Green Soap produced? All products are produced at a soap factory in Utrecht. This used to belong to a large company, but these large companies often supply all of Europe from 1 or 2 factories. This saves a lot of costs but is not always good for the environment because trucks drive criss-cross through Europe. For example, a bottle of Marcel's Green Soap dishwashing liquid has traveled about 80 kilometers before it reaches your kitchen counter. For competitors, that is often 600 kilometers! What about Marcel's Green Soap's carbon footprint? If you want to properly examine a company's CO2 footprint, you have to look from beginning to end, which is called cradle to grave. Because everything is produced in the Netherlands, and almost all raw materials come from the Netherlands (or Germany), there is minimal environmental impact in the production process. Regarding marketing, sales, and administration, Marcel manages the company himself from his home office. No management teams, no international meetings, no commuting. As a result, Marcel's Green Soap is CO2 neutral from the start, because there is almost no extra emission. Marcel finds this a much better way than first emitting a lot of CO2 and then compensating for it. And what about the products at the consumer? Because Marcel's products are 99% biodegradable and the bottles contain no dye, the environmental impact is limited and recycling is promoted. And because Marcel's products are concentrated and the scent is much more present, you ultimately use just a little less. Hey, nobody is perfect, and Marcel doesn't pretend that he does everything to minimize the environmental impact. But he tries to do his part in his own way.