Lovett Sundries

While Lovett Sundries is a bit farther from home, located in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, we are so excited about their mission to “make your everyday routine special” with soaps made the old-fashioned way using ingredients you can pronounce. You could say they were speaking right to our slow living souls.

A family business featuring a line of handcrafted soaps, grooming, and cleaning products that are carefully measured, mixed, and packaged by their own hands. As a small business striving to make a big impact, Lovett Sundries uses repurposed, post-consumer or recyclable packaging to ship to us and they reuse the “empties” that we ship back. They also support the refill model by offering their dishwashing and laundry soaps in dehydrated powders and by the 5 gallon size, cutting down on the amount that we have to source from them.

You can find the following products from Lovett Sundries at the Refill Bar:

Dishwashing Powder

For dishes so clean you can eat off of them, how about cutting out all the creepy chemicals? Most dishwasher detergents are made up of alkylbenzenesulfonates… that’s a real word, we didn’t make it up. The main ingredients in our dishwashing powder are washing soda and borax. Both are naturally occurring minerals harvested here in the U.S.A.! We believe in keeping things simple and laying off those extra syllables. We love the way this powder makes our vintage wares sparkle and we know you will too! 

Use: two tablespoons of dishwashing powder per cycle

Ingredients: washing soda, borax, sea salt, citric acid

*if you are noticing a slight film after running your dishes it might be that your water is a bit too hard for this product. In some cases, added a tablespoon or two of white/ cleaning vinegar can help with this.

Laundry Soap

Once we started making soap to use on ourselves, we thought, why not also make soap to use on our clothes?  The main ingredient in our laundry soap is soap. Most laundry detergents are made up of alkylbenzenesulfonates… seriously... we didn’t make that up. We use handmade coconut soap flakes and borax as our base. Borax has been used for cleaning laundry since it was first harvested from the deserts of the American West in the 1800s. The way we figure it, if this could clean the clothes that built America, it can handle anything we throw at it. It’s easy on your clothes and they come out clean and smelling great (not like the potpourri aisle at the craft store).

Use: two tablespoons of laundry soap per load, for high efficiency machines first add the soap into the wash basin before the clothes

Ingredients: baking soda, borax, coconut soap, coconut oil, filtered water, lye

Dry Shampoo- Lavender

Want to skip washing your hair to sleep a little longer? Going camping but still want to look fresh? We've got a great cheat that will let you shirk the shower and still have amazing hair! This talc-free blend of arrowroot powder and bentonite clay absorbs excess oil and boosts volume like crazy.

Use: Tap a little into your palm and sprinkle on your roots, wait a few minutes and then brush or shake it out. Your hair will look clean, but with more texture and volume than when its freshly washed. Just remember, a little goes a long way!

Ingredients: arrowroot powder, bentonite clay, lavender oil