The Australian Natural Soap Company - Lemon Myrtle Body Wash
RRP: $29.95
Gold + Editor's Choice
Non-toxic
Formulated from excellent, non-toxic ingredients. Made from only the pure Australian plant oils of olive oil and lemon myrtle
Ethical
ANSC are certified cruelty free and have strict policies to ensure none of their ingredients used are ever tested on animals. The brand is a female led business, manufacturing their products themselves in Melbourne, Australia. ANSC uses steam distilled, pure essential oils.
Sustainable
All ANSC’s ingredients are biodegradable, certified palm oil free and all their soap packaging is compostable or recyclable. The brand sends all their online and wholesale orders from their warehouse in plastic free packaging and have an in house Terracycling program to ensure they recycle what they can, including their nitrile gloves. To date, the brand estimates their products have saved more than 1.3 million plastic bottles from going to landfill.
Responsible
ANSC donates 3% of all their online sales to the Orangutan Project, raising more than $34,000 for this incredible organisation since 2015. In the past year alone, this has helped rescue almost 49 displaced or illegally held orangutans as well as provide more than 200 young orangutans with care, rehabilitation and jungle school - among many other things. The brand also regularly donates their offcuts of soaps to charities in Victoria.
What our experts say...
The first thing you notice when you use this body wash is the beautiful lemon myrtle scent. The wash is luxurious and leaves your skin feeling fresh and clean. I love that the offcuts of soaps are donated to Victorian charities. The development of re-fills is also a wonderful idea.
–Fiona Morouco
I love that this body wash has a smell of lemon myrtle (like lemon grass) but it’s not overwhelming. And it leaves your skin feeling really soft. Animal rights is a really important issue to me so I really appreciate the fact that ANSC support efforts to help orangutans. I also love that this product is sold in a glass bottle – I can reuse or recycle it afterwards.
–Lucy E Cousins
When I see a short ingredients list, I know there’s absolute confidence in the quality of the hero ingredients, as there’s nowhere to hide. This beautiful body wash doesn’t disappoint. With only saponified olive oil and lemon myrtle, this wash is nourishing, creamy and smells incredible. It is so gentle, I can use it as a shave gel and it leaves my skin soft and nurtured. I also love that it is presented so beautifully in a big glass jar.
– Emily Fletcher
I love the recyclable/ reusable amber glass bottle and easy to use pump. This liquid soap contains only olive oil and lemon myrtle. It is both refreshing and cleansing – I enjoy using it as a hand wash too. I really appreciate the efforts made by this brand to be both ethical and sustainable, and I especially love that they have raised nearly $35,000 for the Orangutan Project.
–Emma Freeman