BOTANICAL CLEANING

Raise the bar

In the 17th century, King Louis XIV decreed that only soap made from pure olive oil could be branded as Marseille — that’s how seriously the French take their soap.

Complementing the ever-reliable Andree Jardin dishwashing brush is this deliciously fresh-scented Sage & Basil dish bar soap.

If you are ready to switch from plastic packaged liquid soap to bar soap for dishwashing or household cleaning, make sure you choose a good quality one that is a pleasure to work with. It'll take the mundane out of the task and save your hands too.

Use it with your brush in the kitchen or for cleaning plant pots, tools, and the like.

Andrée Jardin has been making French home essentials that are as beautiful as they are useful for over 70 years, and this certified organic bar soap is no exception. It deep cleans and degreases without leaving any residue.

Size: 250 g

Made in  France

Based on natural olive oil, black soap is an effective ecological cleaner used for generations in France. It’s made the old-fashioned way in a cauldron, just like La Corvette’s bathroom soaps, but the addition of linseed oil and pomace oil (sourced from the remains of crushed grapes) gives it heavy-duty power.

La Corvette has been making cauldron-cooked olive oil black soap at its factory in Marseille using traditional expertise for over 125 years. Black soap is a very effective natural cleaner for the whole house, Ecological, 100% natural and biodegradable, it can easily replace about a dozen specific householder cleaning products, and eliminate the packaging that goes along with them.

FAQs

Here are a few frequently asked questions about black soap:

How do you use black soap paste in the garden?

Black soap is used in France as a natural insectide. To protect plants and roses against aphids, whiteflies and mealybugs, thoroughly mix about 1 tablespoon of black soap paste with 1 litre of water and spray the mixture on the plants, not forgetting under leaves, Repeat after two days.

Doing this at cooler times of the day avoids any risk of leaves getting burnt by the hot midday sun.

Can I use it for household cleaning?

Of course! It’s a very fuss-free, versatile cleanser, so therefore economical. No more nasty chemicals and no fainting spells from strong chemicals.

For flooring, surfaces, wood, ovens, copper, silver: Dilute about 1 tablespoon in 3 litres of hot water. No rinsing required.

For extra-deep cleaning: Dilute about 3 tablespoons in 3 litres of hot water. No rinsing required,

For maintaining silverware or DIY and garden tools: In your laundry, kitchen, garden sink or bucket, dilute about 3-4 tablespoons in 3 litres of hot water. Soak items for 5 minutes. Dry with a soft cloth.

For fabric stain removal:  Place a hazelnut-sized portion of paste on your fabric, rub lightly and leave for a few minutes. Launder the item in your washing machine as usual.

As black soap is very concentrated, for light coloured fabrics (such as white linens and cotton) we recommend testing it on a small, inconspicuous area prior to use.

For standard machine washing: Add 3 tablespoons of black soap paste for every 5 kilos of laundry. Add 100ml of white vinegar as a natural softener. Add natural essential oils for fragrance, if you like.

Can I use black soap paste on my pet?

Yes. Start by rinsing your pet’s coat and massage in 1 tablespoon of black soap paste. Rinse and wipe dry.

Is black soap paste safe?

La Corvette Marseille Black Soap Paste is certified as an Ecodetergent by Ecocert Greenlife according to the Ecocert standard, with 100% of the ingredients being of natural origin.

Find out more about Ecocert here.

NO COLOURING 
NO FRAGRANCE
NO PRESERVATIVES
NO CHEMICAL ADDITIVES

Ingredients: <30% soap. Also contains water, carbonate salts, glycine, potassium hydroxide, linseed oil

What is doTERRA Ice Blue Rub used for?

Ice Blue Rub is a rich, topical cream infused with the Ice Blue Athletic Blend of essential oils. Formulated with a proprietary blend of natural plant extracts and other powerful ingredients, Ice Blue Rub provides a comforting sensation of cooling and warmth to problem areas. Made with doTERRA’s top-selling Ice Blue essential oil blend of Wintergreen, Camphor, Peppermint, Blue Tansy, Blue Chamomile, Helichrysum, Ylang Ylang and Osmanthus, this is an essential addition to your bathroom cabinet and gym bag.

Ice Blue Rub is blended in a base of moisturising emollients that leave your skin feeling soft and not greasy. It is the choice of massage therapists and sports practitioners who currently use Ice Blue essential oil blend in their practice.

Is doTERRA Ice Blue Rub the Same as doTERRA Deep Blue Rub?

Yes. doTERRA Ice Blue Rub is the same as doTERRA Deep Blue Rub. doTERRA Deep Blue Rub is simply the name given to the same blend but in the United States. doTERRA Ice Blue is the name marketed in Australia.

Directions for Use

Massage cream onto desired areas. For a more intensive treatment, apply Ice Blue essential oil blend on the skin prior to lotion application.

Cautions

KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN. SAFETY DIRECTIONS: DO NOT SWALLOW.

First Aid
For advice, contact a Poisons Information Centre (eg. Phone Australia 13 11 26; New Zealand 0800 764 766) or a doctor at once. If in eyes, wash out immediately with water. If swallowed, do NOT induce vomiting and get medical help or contact a Poisons Information Centre immediately. For external use only. Avoid contact with eyes. Do not use on wounds or damaged skin.

Volume: 120 mls

Ingredients

Water (Aqua), Gaultheria procumbens (Wintergreen) Leaf Oil, Cinnamomum camphora (Camphor) Bark Oil, Menthol, Cetearyl Alcohol, Prunus amygdalus dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil, Stearic Acid, Glyceryl Stearate, PEG-100 Stearate, Mentha piperita (Peppermint) Oil, Eucalyptus globulus (Eucalyptus) Leaf Oil, Butylene Glycol, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Cananga odorata (Ylang Ylang) oil, Capsicum frutescens Extract, Chamomilla recutita (Blue Chamomile) Flower Oil, Tanacetum annuum (Blue Tansy) Oil, Helichrysum italicum (Helichrysum) Flower Oil, Allantoin, Gardenia florida Fruit Extract, Osmanthus fragrans (Osmanthus) Flower Extract, Aloe barbadensis Leaf Juice, Chlorella vulgaris Extract, Retinyl Palmitate, Squalane, Ceteareth-20, Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Dimethicone, Phenoxyethanol, Caprylyl Glycol, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Xanthan Gum, Ethylhexylglycerin, Hexylene Glycol, Polysorbate 60, Maltodextrin, Sodium PCA, Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate

Helping Hands

 
Volume: 500mls 

This August in 2023, there will be two full moons making them "supermoons". The second, is a blue moon. This is where the saying "Once in a blue moon", comes from as they happen only once in a few years.

Use this month to make some new intentions and positive changes in your life. Gee, this is sounding like a Star Sign advice line!  But whether you're a believer or not, you can't deny this vintage image reproduced by Cavallini on this fine cotton is not a beautiful keepsake or wall decorating item filled with lots of interesting facts.

Helping Hands

Volume: 1 Litre

Bring your own jar, Dispenser, or old plastic handwash bottle in-store and we'll fill it while you wait...

Or If you would prefer a new dispenser order the 500ml option online and add the beautiful recycled Green Glass dispenser by Koala Eco here (available for the 500ml option only). This looks amazing on the window sill as the light refracts through it.

Our family, our community, our planet, we are all connected. Social enterprise empowers you to find change within Australian communities.

Close to FORA's heart, BASE SOAP's inspiration is the Australian landscape and people, celebrating our environmental diversity. Their aim to be kind to the environment, leave a small footprint, use all natural ingredients and source sustainable packaging.

BASE SOAP products are handcrafted in Australia. They are natural, vegan and cruelty free. The result is a range that works hard and is gentle on your skin.

CLEAN KITCHENWARE, CLEAN CONSCIENCE

Volume: 1L

Sparkle-Arkle

Sustainability is front of mind for Koala Eco,  producing a range Australian cleaning products that won't have you fainting with chemical overload, while helping to protect the plant also.

Learn more about Koala Eco's sustainability ethos here.

Volume: 500ml

Nothing Short of a miracle

This handy 250 ml tube is a perfect introduction to the magic that is La Corvette Marseille’s range of olive oil-based black soap. It’s an excellent multipurpose cleaner, degreaser and stain remover with applications around the house.

Use it straight from the tube as a stain remover for laundry. Dilute it to wash dishes or clean greasy surfaces like ovens and range hoods. In fact, it can clean just about anything from pots to shampooing your dog, so it easily replaces a dozen specific cleaning products and eliminate the packaging that comes with them.

La Corvette’s black soap is made the old-fashioned way, cooked in a cauldron in the company’s French workshop. A combination of olive oil, linseed oil and pomace oil (sourced from the remains of crushed grapes) give it superior stain-busting properties while making it environmentally sensitive.

FAQs

Here are a few frequently asked questions about black soap:

How do you use black soap paste in the garden?

Black soap is used in France as a natural insecticide. To protect plants and roses against aphids, whiteflies and mealybugs, thoroughly mix about 1 tablespoon of black soap paste with 1 litre of water and spray the mixture on the plants, not forgetting under leaves, Repeat after two days.

Doing this at cooler times of the day avoids any risk of leaves getting burnt by the hot midday sun.

Can I use Miracle Black Soap for household cleaning?

Of course! It’s a very fuss-free, versatile cleanser, so therefore economical. No more nasty chemicals and no fainting spells from strong chemicals.

For flooring, surfaces, wood, ovens, copper, silver: Dilute about 1 tablespoon in 3 litres of hot water. No rinsing required.

For extra-deep cleaning: Dilute about 3 tablespoons in 3 litres of hot water. No rinsing required,

For maintaining silverware or DIY and garden tools: In your laundry, kitchen, garden sink or bucket, dilute about 3-4 tablespoons in 3 litres of hot water. Soak items for 5 minutes. Dry with a soft cloth.

For fabric stain removal:  Place a hazelnut-sized portion of paste on your fabric, rub lightly and leave for a few minutes. Launder the item in your washing machine as usual.

As black soap is very concentrated, for light coloured fabrics (such as white linens and cotton) we recommend testing it on a small, inconspicuous area prior to use.

For standard machine washing: Add 3 tablespoons of black soap paste for every 5 kilos of laundry. Add 100ml of white vinegar as a natural softener. Add natural essential oils for fragrance, if you like.

Can I use black soap paste as a shampoo on my dog or pet?

Many people ask if you can use dishwashing soap on dogs. But standard dishwashing soap can be quite harsh on your dogs skin. Dishwashing soaps will quickly strip your pet’s skin of the natural oils that help to nourish and protect it. This leaves the skin less well-hydrated, which decreases its ability to keep bacterial yeast, and allergic irritants away.

Miracle Black Soap with hydrating olive oil is great option. Start by rinsing your pet’s coat and massage in 1 tablespoon of black soap paste. Rinse and wipe dry.

Is black soap paste safe?

La Corvette Marseille Black Soap Paste is certified as an Ecodetergent by Ecocert Greenlife according to the Ecocert standard, with 100% of the ingredients being of natural origin.

Find out more about Ecocert here.

NO COLOURING 
NO FRAGRANCE
NO PRESERVATIVES
NO CHEMICAL ADDITIVES

Ingredients: 70% Soap. Also contains water, carbonate salts, glycine, potassium hydroxide, linseed oil.

Made in France

Volume: 250 ml

Blue Chip Investment

A must in many European households, La Corvette Marseille’s soap flakes are a safe and sensitive alternative to laundry powder, both eco-friendly and hypoallergenic.

Made the same way as the company’s traditional Marseille bathroom soap, using all-natural vegetable oils cooked in a cauldron, these soap flakes offer the same degree of gentleness. That makes them an ideal option for washing woollies and other delicates, laundering babywear and cleaning clothes for any member of the family with sensitive skin.

Styling hint: decant the contents of the bag into glass jars and even the laundry can look Insta-perfect.

La Corvette Marseille's Olive Laundry Soap Flakes are certified as an Ecodetergent by Ecocert Greenlife according to the Ecocert standard, with 100% of the ingredients being of natural origin.

Find out more about Ecocert here.

La Corvette Marseille is also certified by The Union of SOAP professionals in Marseille, ensuring that the soap is made in a traditional cooking process in the cauldron of the period; is composed of the traditional Marseille soap from raw materials and exclusively vegetable oils, without additives, preservatives or perfumes and is made in a place of manufacture in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône, the historical cradle of the soap of Marseille

Find out more about La Corvette Marseille's historic place in Marseille soap-making by checking out Fora's BRANDS showcase here.

Ingredients: SOAP 30%;  sodium Olivate, sodium cocoate, Aqua (water), sodium chloride, sodium hydroxide

Made in France

750 grams

Scrub your grub

Whether you’re preparing fruit and veg carefully cultivated in your own backyard or heroically carried home from a farmers’ market, this is the perfect thing to scrub your grub. A simple tool that does a specific job and does it beautifully. 

The Tradition beechwood line is still made as it was more than 70 years ago, in varnished beechwood with natural fibres. Artisan-made in small number using locally grown consciously-sourced wood and natural fibres. 

The two ends give you a choice of bristle suited to the job. Use the soft one for delicate produce like stone fruit or tomatoes, and the harder set to scrub potatoes, ginger and other sturdy stuff like Lebanese cucumbers.

Even the simple act of cleaning vegetables can be a chance to admire the beauty of the materials and the simplicity of the form, creating a small moment of grace and beauty in an ordinary day.

Materials: Waxed beech, mixed vegetable fibres

Weight: 4.54 g

Dimensions: 14  (l) x 4 (w) x 5 h (cm)

Made in France

Onya Copper 

Looking for a reliable mate to effectively clean your gardening tools, pots, sink, or surface without scratching? The Andree Jardin copper wire is tough enough to remove the hardest stuck-on residue, sap, paint, clay,  and grease but gentle enough not to leave any scratches behind. 

Copper is rust free and durable, known for its antibacterial qualities, and is a great alternative to plastic scourers and that ouchy steel wool.

Comes wrapped with coated paper label

9cm diameter
20 g

Synthetic sponge and copper wire
Not recommended for use on Teflon
Wring after each use.

Sweet Sweet Basil

As nature lovers, we know some scents in the garden make us happy and we want to bring inside as many of those beautiful, natural scents inside.  Andrée Jardin has been making French home essentials that are as beautiful as they are useful for over 70 years, and this organic household soap is no exception.

Not just for dishes, you can use this sweetly scented organic olive oil liquid soap for your plant pots, pot saucers, vases, and craft materials.  It deep cleans and degreases leaving no residue, all thanks to Marseille soap and olive oil which is gentle and lovely on hands.

Volume: 500ml
Made in France