October 24, 2020

Blueland's Ingredient Philosophy

At Blueland, we are careful in order to pick trimmings that are upgraded for the quality of the planet and its family. We acknowledge that we can have reasonable, non-harmful trimmings, and a strong planet. We've gotten the Platinum Material Health Certificate for our 3 cleaning showers, hand chemical, dishwasher tablets, and dress tablets from Cradle to Cradle, the USDA BioPreferred attestation for our 3 cleaning sprinkles, powder dish chemical, dishwasher tablets, and garments tablets, EPA Safer Choice affirmation for our 3 cleaning sprinkles, and Leaping Bunny (wantonness free) accreditation for the total of our things. We simply source trimmings that are non-GMO, without gluten, vegan and cruelty free. Also, we just used trimmings on the EPA Safer Chemical Ingredients List and none of the trimmings on the EWG Unacceptable List or the Prop 65 Banned Ingredients List.

How Does Blueland Source Ingredients?

While sourcing our trimmings, we look for trimmings that will be suitable and will meet our bar for the prosperity of people and the planet. We just used trimmings on the EPA Safer Chemical Ingredients List and none of the trimmings on the EWG Unacceptable List or the Prop 65 Banned Ingredients List. According to the EWG, the trimmings on the EWG Unacceptable once-over are trimmings "with prosperity, ecotoxicity, and also contamination concerns and as demonstrated by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, the Prop 65 summary "contains a wide extent of typically occurring and designed manufactured substances that are known to cause threat or birth surrenders or other regenerative wickedness." As such, we've went without using any trimmings from those overviews. At Blueland, we furthermore chose to source our things from vegan, soy, and without nut, sans gluten, and non-GMO trimmings.

Does Blueland Use Fragrance?

We use smells for our Multi-Surface Cleaner, our Bathroom cleaner, and our three Foaming Hand Soap aroma, Iris Agave, Perrine Lemon, and Lavender Eucalyptus. For our things that do contain smell, they were made with trimmings that wouldn't deal the overall definitions Platinum Material Health Certificate from Cradle to Cradle and we displaced express trimmings with ordinarily decided designed blends where there were known allergens.

Does Blueland Use PEG?

We do use PEG in our cleaning sprinkles, hand chemical, and dishwasher tablets. We don't use any PEG in our powder dish chemical or apparel tablets. Amazingly, we have not found suitable choices for the trimmings we use for our cleaning sprinkles, hand chemical and dishwasher tablets that aren't oil based and we've expected to rely upon those that are. Our cleaning sprinkles, hand chemical, and dishwasher plans got the Platinum Material Health Certificates from Cradle to Cradle. We're really working successfully with our trimmings suppliers to find trimmings so we can continue improving and better for our planet Blueland x Reformation.

Does Blueland Use Palm Oil?

We like to use coconut-decided trimmings, in any case, in light of deftly issues, coconut-construed trimmings are not commonly open. Right when that happens, we will explicitly use other ordinarily decided plant oils, including palm oils. In any case, we use ethically sourced and sensible trimmings at whatever point possible, and are constantly wanting to improve our sourcing measures including endeavoring to require our suppliers to uncover follow proportions of materials and give us supporting documentation. Achievable sourcing to us suggests that we are constantly smoothing out our things for human and biological prosperity (joins our definitions, our packaging, and our effortlessly chain among various things). For this fixing, when there are deftly issues or there isn't a coconut-induced source open, palm oils have been used as a section. We recognize this when the suppliers can convey documentation or confirmation that the palm oil is RSPO affirmed anyway if they can't, we will change to suppliers who can.

Does Blueland Use SLS?

Our Bathroom cleaner, Glass + Mirror cleaner, Powder Dish Soap and Dishwasher Tablets do contain SLS as a fixing. Our Foaming Hand Soap, Multi-Surface cleaner, and Laundry Tablets don't yet may have follow wholes. We use SLS in our dish things since it is an amazing surfactant that helps break with expanding earth and grime. SLS is a fixing that can have a collection of occupations, anyway in cleaning things, it is as often as possible used to isolate earth and grime away from the material it is required to clean. We use SLS that is gotten from reasonable carbon plant-decided materials.

What Certifications Does Blueland Have?

We have gotten the Platinum Material Health Certificate from Cradle to Cradle, are USDA BioPreferred, EPA Safer Choice and Leaping Bunny assertions. We've gotten the Platinum Material Health Certificate for our 3 cleaning showers, hand chemical, dishwasher tablets, and attire tablets, the USDA BioPreferred affirmation for our 3 cleaning sprinkles, powder dish chemical, dishwasher tablets, and apparel tablets, EPA Safer Choice attestation for our 3 cleaning sprinkles, and Leaping Bunny (savagery free) accreditation for the total of our things. The accreditation cycle was a critical part of our thing improvement measure that helped us ensure we were picking things that would be okay for the planet and our homes.