Melaleuca EcoSense: Safer for Your Home
Melaleuca: The Wellness Company has been enhancing lives with its exceptional health and wellness products since 1985. Melaleuca began its journey with only eight products, but today, The Wellness Company’s product line encompasses more than 400 health and wellness products inspired by nature and proven by science. Each one is researched, designed, and manufactured with one goal in mind: to help you live a longer, more vibrant life.
Melaleuca is passionate about safer homes, smarter choices, and a cleaner environment. These values lead to the creation of safer-for-your-home EcoSense products and hundreds of other wellness products that draw from the power of nature to deliver effective solutions without the caustic chemicals used by traditional grocery store brands. Each month, millions of customers around the world come back to Melaleuca’s online store for safer products that really work.
Doing Your Part for a Healthy Planet
We all want a clean, safe, and beautiful environment for our families to enjoy. To create and maintain that environment, we need to understand our connection to the world around us. EcoSense cleaning and laundry products combine leading-edge technology with plant-derived, biodegradable ingredients in a synergistic blend of science and nature.
They’re better for your family, they’re safer for your home, and they reduce your impact on our environment. EcoSense products are sourced from ingredients that won’t leave behind dangerous chemicals and poisons, keeping your family free from toxic chemicals and abrasives found in traditional home cleaners. And because the EcoSense line utilizes ultraconcentrated formulas, you can be assured that purchasing EcoSense products actively reduces waste and helps you stay away from the caustic chemicals found in traditional grocery store brands.
Through the EcoSense line, Melaleuca is committed to offering safer, effective, affordable products that promote a cleaner environment, inside and outside of the home. By choosing these products, Melaleuca shoppers have saved the environment from 292 million pounds of plastic waste, 47 million gallons of fuel consumption, and 1.53 billion pounds of harmful gas emissions worldwide.
Smarter Choices
Protecting your family is all about making smarter choices.
Safer for your home
KID-FRIENDLY SOLUTIONS
At The Wellness Company:
- Naturally safe ingredients are the priority.
- Our ingredient-selection criteria is not based on cost.
- We know the best natural ingredients cost a little more, and we take pride in knowing we invest in what matters most.
- We never use ingredients on our “no” list—ever.
- We always take the precautionary path, which means if there isn't clear proof that an ingredient is safe, we don't use it. Safety first!
Proven to work
EFFECTIVE CLEANING POWER
- It starts with a simple principle: our naturally safe solutions must work and clean better than the national brands (which regularly use cheaper, more harmful ingredients). This is a huge challenge because harmful chemicals are often cheaper and easier to use to get the job done. But we meet that challenge every day.
- Too many so-called green products sold in the marketplace don't work. They don't clean like you would expect. A product may be better for the environment, but that doesn't mean it can clean exceptionally well. Creating an effective eco-friendly cleaner requires more expertise and an advanced understanding of natural ingredients. Nature has effective solutions. You just need to know where to find them and how to use them.
- Proof matters. We rigorously test our formulas to prove that they not only work but also work better than other brands.
Concentrated for the environment
BIODEGRADABLE FOR THE EARTH
- With other brands, up to 95% of the product is water. More water means more plastic is used to make larger bottles to hold the extra water.
- Shipping water from one end of North America to the other means more fuel is used and unnecessary emissions are released into the air we breathe.
- Call it overly simple, but at The Wellness Company we are pretty sure that households have running water available on tap. If a product needs water, you can just add it at home.
- Concentrated also means more value to you the customer. For example, at Melaleuca you get 96 fl. oz. of Tub & Tile Bathroom Cleaner for under $6.50. That's less than $1.10 per spray bottle.
- To get 96 fl. oz. of Method Foaming Bathroom Cleaner, you would have to buy four bottles for nearly $16. Why not save money and the environment?
- Most of all, every time you use EcoSense concentrated products you can rest assured that you are doing the most for the environment.
- Because we concentrate our products, we do more for the environment than Method, Green Works, and Seventh Generation combined.
Affordable for you and your family
REASONABLE PRICES, EXCEPTIONAL VALUE
- Many of those so-called green products come at unreasonably high prices under the guise that “greener” means more expensive. Safer ingredients do cost more, but that doesn't mean the end product can't be affordable.
- One of our founding values is to always selling exceptional products at reasonable prices. So if we spend more on natural ingredients and effective products, how can our prices still be affordable?
- Unlike our competitors, we don't sell through retail stores or online retailers like Amazon. We sell direct. So we avoid the expense that others pay to have someone else sell their product.
- And unlike other brands, we manufacture EcoSense products ourselves. So we don't pay someone else to make our products.
- We don't pay for advertising. Instead we rely exclusively on customer referrals to find new customers.
- The result? We pay a little more for ingredients, but we lower costs elsewhere. Exceptional value. Reasonable prices.
Inspired by Nature
EcoSense is always looking for better, safer, more natural solutions.
Inspired by nature and proven by science, we start with ingredients from renewable plant resources, naturally derived alternatives, and thoughtfully chosen biodegradable compounds.
We find that most of the time nature provides the best solution and we employ expert scientists in the field of natural ingredients.
INGREDIENT
WE USE IT IN
INSTEAD OF
Palm and coconut derived cleaners
Clear Power
Ammonia found in Windex
Citric acid like that found in lemons
Tub & Tile
Chlorine found in Tilex
Organic acid like that found in sugar beets
Safe & Mighty
Chlorine found in Chlorox
Natural thyme oil
Sol-U-Guard Botanical
Quaternary disinfectant found in Lysol
Ingredients You Can Love
What we use, and why, in products that deliver amazing results.
Citric Acid
WHAT IT IS: Naturally found in citrus fruits
WHY WE USE IT: Effective alternative to harsh chemicals that dissolves hard water, soap scum, and mineral deposits
INCLUDED IN: Tub & Tile Bathroom Cleaner and Safe & Mighty Toilet Bowl Cleaner
Thyme Oil
WHAT IT IS: Natural oil from the herb thyme
WHY WE USE IT: Proven to kill viruses and bacteria by making them spill their guts
INCLUDED IN: Sol-U-Guard Botanical
Disinfectant and Safe & Mighty Toilet Bowl Cleaner
Melaleuca Oil
WHAT IT IS: Natural oil from the melaleuca alternafolia plant in Australia
WHY WE USE IT: Boosts cleaning performance and penetrates tough stains
INCLUDED IN: Tough and Tender All-Purpose Cleaner, Sol-U-Mel Stain Remover
Glycolic Acid
WHAT IT IS: Naturally found in sugar beets
WHY WE USE IT: A safer alternative to use on common fixtures that dissolves hard water, soap scum, and mineral deposits
INCLUDED IN: Tub & Tile Bathroom Cleaner and No Work Daily Shower Cleaner
Sodium Citrate
WHAT IT IS: Sodium salt is derived from citric acid and occurs naturally in plants and animals
WHY WE USE IT: Natural, effective alternative to synthetic stabilizers.
INCLUDED IN: MelaPower, Lemon Brite
Essential Oils
WHAT IT IS: Variety of naturally sourced oils
WHY WE USE IT: Used in our blend of fragrance oils to provide an enjoyable scent experience
INCLUDED IN: All cleaners
Ingredients We Never Use
Just as important as what we choose to put in our products is what we choose NOT to use.
INGREDIENT
USED BY OTHER BRANDS IN
WHY WE NEVER USE IT
Chlorine
surface cleaners, bathroom cleaners,
and toilet bowl cleaners
Harmful or fatal if swallowed, can permanently damage skin, attacks membranes in your respiratory system, and doesn't get rid of dirt—it just bleaches the color out of it.
Ammonia
glass cleaners and surface cleaners
Ammonia is irritating and corrosive. Exposure can cause immediate burning of the nose, throat, and respiratory tract.
Formaldehyde
disinfectants, or other products as a
preservative
Can cause an allergic reaction in the skin. When present in the air it can cause watery eyes, burning sensation of the eyes, nose, and throat, coughing, wheezing, and nausea.
Phthalates
detergents and common fragrances
In the past few years, researches have linked phthalates to asthma and breast cancer.
Abrasives
bathroom and kitchen cleaners
Abrasives contain hard particles that can damage your sink and shower and scuff their surfaces giving dangerous bacteria a safe place to grow, breed, and multiply.
Phosphates
historically used in detergents
Too much phosphorus in our waterways leads to excessive algae growth, often resulting in the death of fish and water plant life.
Parabens
multi-surface cleaners and other
products as preservatives
Parabens are known to disrupt hormone function.
Quaternary Disinfectants
home-use disinfectants
Quaternary disinfectants are poisonous if ingested. They aren't as effective on viruses and their effectiveness can be reduced by common circumstances like hard water. They have been linked to lung damage.