We believe you should know why we put the ingredients that we do in our products so take a peek below and take some notes. If you have any other questions, feel free to reach out to us below:

Our Ingredients

We're always working to keep this up to date so check back if something's missing. We try our best to explain in our own words, but sometimes mistakes happen so if you see something confusing or wrong, feel free to reach out!

Scented Products

  • Fragrance We believe in using only natural fragrances made from essential oils or their isolates. To keep things even more in check, we always limit the amount put into our products because a little bit of scent can go a long way.

Castile Soaps

  • Aqua - This is the water that we all know and love. Ours goes through some extra steps to make sure it's as clean as possible. If you haven't had any water  today, we recommend you getting off your phone or computer and heading to get some. Just writing this is making us thirsty.
  • Potassium Olivate - What makes soap, soap is the saponification process. In Castile soap, vegetable oils are used. To start things off in our Castile Soap, is the saponified oil from the Olea Europa plant, or more simply put, saponified olive oil. 
  • Potassium Cocoate - No to be outshined in our Castile Soap is our second saponified oil. In this case it's from those oh so useful coconuts.
  • Sodium Chloride - This is an easy one and you probably have it in your kitchen right now. Sodium Chloride is the same kind of salt found in your salt shaker. Ours is just a little bit fancier. We use this to help make our Castile Soap just a tad bit thicker so more gets on your skin and less gets on the ground.
  • Sodium Cocoyl Collagen Amino Acids - This one is a mouthful, but trust us it's safe, effective, and helps make our Castile Soap even better. This ingredient is derived from coconuts and other plants and helps keep your skin from drying out.
  • Glycolipids - This fermented ingredient helps make our Castile Soap lather up and wash away oils while keeping it mild on the skin. 

Body Wash

Laundry Booster

  • Sodium Carbonate - This is one of our main stars in our Laundry Booster. Your grandparents may of called it washing soda or soda ash, but either way, this natural ingredient has been used for generations to break down stains that detergents struggle with.
  • Sodium Percarbonate - You can thank the as-seen-on-tv era of commercials for making this ingredients power popular and well known. This chlorine bleach alternative releases oxygen when dissolved in the water of your washing machine to whiten and brighten your clothes.
  • Sodium Citrate - This natural salt helps make make your water happy. We use it to soften hard water and make your detergents more effective, allowing less to do more.
  • Enzyme Blend (Protease Amylase, lipase, cellulase, mannanase, pectate-lyase) - There's a lot of them, but thankfully they are small enough to all fit. These tiny proteins each target different types of stains that your poor clothes may of gotten on them and work together to speed up the reactions needed to get them looking like new again. 

Ingredients Matter. Formulas Matter.

  • Naturally Derived

    This is what we're all about. We believe making home goods should be just like baking at home. This means using the right stuff from the beginning, even if it means it takes extra care and steps to make the product perfect.

  • Washing Hands With Soap

    Simple Formulas

    Our thought is that if you make the product how you want to make it and not to a price point, then the formulas write themselves. We don't have to worry about limiting one ingredient or adding another to balance costs. If it can't be made how we believe it should be, we don't bother making it at all

  • Pretty Good Scale

    Always Pretty Good

    We're called Richards' Pretty Good for a reason. There's nothing more frustrating than buying the expensive natural option and finding out it stinks. That's why all of our products are more than good, they're pretty good. They just work without any compromise.

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