Organic

Are Ecover products Organic?

You may be wondering why Ecover don’t have any certified organic products when we support the global switch to a more sustainable agriculture. The high added value of organic produce finds its foremost and prime application in food. The actual food market share of organic produce is still far too low, and therefore its logistics and pricing is completely out of reach for technical applications, such as washing and cleaning products. It would be counterproductive - and unethical too - to take away the relatively small amount of organic for non-food applications in the actual market situation.

Secondly, most ingredients for washing and cleaning products are commodities, produced by very big companies in continuous processing plants. Insurmountable technical and logistical problems would arise when trying to introduce such ingredients now.

Thirdly, if these producers want to involve organic raw materials, they would represent an extremely small volume on their operations and the price rises this causes wouldn’t be acceptable for the consumer.

Lastly, organic ingredients offer a huge advantage on the agricultural side, but no advantage to washing and cleaning products - no better cleaning, no less environmental impact, and no better degradation. Some producers go back to old-fashioned formulations to include some organic ingredients, but we pride ourselves on maintaining and improving upon the high performance standards our customers are used to. What’s really important to us is to support the organic movement in the UK as far as we can at the moment, as we see it as an intrinsic part of a sustainable future.

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