FOR A HOME

Do you love the cotton cord triangle look when you're hanging picture and photos? 

Perhaps you rent and don't want to drill any new holes?

Add these cotton cords on to your Pressi frame and hang from, well, anything!

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

Black metal wall hook, designed to hold the Merchant Vase.

This customised hook comes with two screws and wall plugs to fix directly to your wall, and carry the hanging merchant vase.

Dimensions 

Length 10 cm                                                                                                                
Width 4 cm                                                                                                                         Total Depth 10.5 cm

Clean Floors, Clean Conscience

Koala Eco's products are kind to your family and kind to the environment. 

Koala Eco's Mandarin & Peppermint Floor Cleaner combines nature’s most aromatic antiseptics in one powerful, anti-bacterial formula. This biodegradable and eco-friendly plant-based formula effortlessly cuts through grime without the use of harsh chemicals and is safe for use on any surface, including wood.

Allow the energising zest of mandarin and peppermint to bring freshness to your floors and surfaces, and fill your home with the scents of Australia.

500ml 

• Natural & non-toxic
• Effective & powerful
• Biodegradable & greywater safe
• Natural disinfectant
• Antifungal
• No synthetic fragrance
• Plant-based
• Eco-Friendly

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.

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

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.

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

Teministeriet...The Nordic Tea Ministry

Supertea is a collection of organic tea and herbal blends that are super tasty, so super tasty that Teministeriet has called it Supertea.  Inspired by superfoods including super herbs, super fruits and super spices, they are organically sourced in small batches. 

Green tea, orange. Certified organic.

Ingredients: Green tea* (90%), orange peel* (5%), matcha green tea* (3%), natural orange aroma (2%). *From organic cultivation.

Brew for 2-3 minutes at 80 °C

Teministeriet...The Nordic Tea Ministry

Supertea is a collection of organic tea and herbal blends that are super tasty, so super tasty that Teministeriet have called it Supertea.  Inspired by super foods including super herbs, super fruits and super spices, thy are organically sourced in small batches. 

Herbal blend, hibiscus, cinnamon. Certified organic.

Ingredients: Cinnamon* (70%), hibiscus* (30%). *From organic cultivation.

Brew for 2-3 minutes at 80 °C

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

Lightly scented with lavender & orange, long lasting and suitable for any hair type and length.

BASE Soap's Conditioner Bar is made using a combination of natural products including cocoa butter, shea butter, sweet almond oil and vitamin B5. Its universal nature enables it to be used on any hair type and length. It’s a rinse out product, so your hair will only take what it needs. It’s lightly fragranced with lavender and Australian orange essential oils for a subtle scent. For best use apply the wet bar gently from root to tip before rinsing it out.

This bar is made with natural ingredients and is palm oil free. 100% ethically sourced and produced.

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.

Ingredients:

BTMS 50, cetyl stearyl alcohol, cocoa butter, shea butter, cyclomethicone, sweet almond oil, B5 panthenol, essential oil – lavender, essential oil – Australian orange

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.

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

When Life Gives You Lemons...

Brazil's Coral Reefs

Well Placed

The perfect accompaniment for your Isolda Pink Neimeyer pintuck apron is this set of 2 placemats in the same colourful print.

Inspired by that country’s most famous architect, Oscar Niemeyer, this amazing design is full of wild botanical imagery in hot hue sand chimes perfectly with a colourful Australian sensibility.

From the original handpainted imagery through to hand construction and detailing, it speaks to a love of nature run riot. 

Material: 97% Cotton, 3% Elastane

Handmade and printed in Brazil.

Who is Oscar Niemeyer anyways?

Living until the age of 104, Oscar Niemeyer is perhaps the most famous architect Brazil has ever produced. His early take on Modernism in the mid 20th Century paid homage to his country's culture and natural organic forms and continues to influence architects, painters, surface and graphic designers in Brazil and here in Australia.

When Charlie won the Bird of The Year in 2021, his cockatoo mates were a bit jealous.

Moe Moe's crochet birds are delightful. This Blue Wren is exclusive to Fora Studios and handmade by our talented local Moe. Proceeds of the sales go back to help her family in Myanmar.

Hang Charlie on your Christmas tree this year for a touch of Aussie fun.