What do you get when you cross a woman from LA and a man from Australia? Firstly, you get 2 little boys who piddle all over the bathroom which then inspires the husband and wife team to create Australia’s most delicious eco-friendly house cleaners, Murchison-Hume…
Murchison-Hume products are completely organic and come in a variety of essential oil fragrances and in fragrance-fee variety. Placing value on the look and smell of their products was a high priority and we feel like they have truly succeeded. Their beautiful apothecary style bottles will make you feel bad about storing them away in the cupboard and possibly even inspire you to clean. Available in a huge range including bathroom cleaner, food surface spray, glass cleaner, dishwashing liquid, natural bristle dish brush and many more products we find these are a perfect housewarming gift.
Priced at the higher end of the market at around AU$12.50 per 500ml trigger bottle and AU$14 for a refill, the Murchison-Hume website has its own online store and blog. For more information visit their website here.
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Comments (3)
Who? When? What the? Thanks for the shout out Jenny B! We read AT every morning but never realised we'd been tagged!
Just a heads up: Murchison-Hume will be launching stateside in all 130 anthropologie stores from coast to coast, so now our American friends can enjoy some glamourous green clean, fresh out of Oz.
maxK (stylehawk)
For the eco conscious - although Murchison-Hume claims they are “ecologically friendly” unfortunately this simply isn’t true. Many of the Murchison-Hume products contain PALM OIL. Approximately 85 percent of palm oil is grown in the Indonesia and Malaysia on vast plantations that have severe impacts on the environment (due to deforestation), rural communities (who are being displaced), critically endangered species such as the Orangutan - not to mention the effects to the world's climate.
I'm sorry, Greengoer, you have your facts wrong!
When we first launched our products in Australia, we had a supplier that manufactured OTHER products on the same lines as ours. So, we felt it was necessary to give FULL DISCLOSURE about what trace elements could possibly be in our products, including Palm oils, even through we were not bound legally to do so.
We do not now, or ever, had any Palm Oil as an input ingredient in Murchison-Hume cleaning products.
IMPORTANT TO KNOW: There is absolutely nothing wrong with Palm Oil in itself. It's a lovely ingredient. It is rather, as you say, how it is farmed which is vital. There are some manufacturers (although we are not one) who do use sustainably farmed palm oil, which is an important distinction to make before making wholesale claims about any product or company, either multi-national or an independent, family-owned one like ours.
Thank you for your concern, though. One that we also share.
MaxK @ Murchison-Hume