The Proof Page
Does it actually clean?
Not "is it safe" — you already know the answer to that. The real question is whether gentler means weaker. Here's the honest version, including the parts where a plant-based concentrate does not win.
On grease
The kitchen-grease test
This section is intentionally empty. We have not yet run and photographed a controlled grease test — the same dilution, the same surface, before and after, honestly captioned. We're not going to describe a test we haven't done or estimate a result. When it's run, the method, the surface, the dilution ratio, and the photographs go here exactly as performed.
The honest limit
What it will not do
A plant-based concentrate is not a solvent degreaser, and it's not built to be. On baked-on, days-old grease — the kind that's been through a broiler cycle or sat on a stovetop for a week — a chemical solvent cleaner will cut through faster than ours will. That's the trade-off you're making: fewer harsh solvents, at the cost of some raw cutting power on the worst-case mess.
Where it's formulated to do well is the everyday range: daily counter wipe-downs, glass, sinks, general surface grime, and fresh (not baked-on) kitchen residue. If your standard is "replace the strongest solvent cleaner on your worst day of the year," it won't. If your standard is "handle the cleaning you actually do most days," that's the job it's built for. We'd rather say that plainly than let you find out the hard way.
On scent
What "smells good" actually means here
Every Ecolosophy scent comes from real essential oils and cold-pressed peel oil, not a synthetic fragrance blend designed to smell like a chemical clean. Citrus Burst is cold-pressed orange peel oil. Pure Serenity is steam-distilled eucalyptus and rosemary. Unscented Oasis has no added fragrance at all.
What that means in practice: the scent fades faster than a synthetic "clean linen" or "ocean breeze" fragrance would, because there's no fragrance-fixing chemical holding it in the air. It smells like the actual plant, while it's fresh, and then it's gone — instead of lingering as an artificial cloud. If what you want is a strong, all-day perfume smell left behind on every surface, that's a different product than this one.
On price
Are refills actually cheaper?
One concentrate bottle
$49.99
Ready-to-use 16 oz refills it makes
~120
Cost per 16 oz refill
~$0.42
Those are the real numbers: the $49.99 concentrate price and the ~120-refill yield printed on our own dilution charts, divided out — not a separate lab estimate. The starter kit (concentrate plus 3 refillable spray bottles) is $69.00; after that, you're only ever buying the $49.99 concentrate again, reusing the same bottles. We're not going to compare that to a specific competitor's shelf price without pricing it ourselves first, but the arithmetic on our own numbers is straightforward: the per-use cost drops fast once you're past the first bottle.
Exact ratios
Every room, every dilution, spelled out
Cap measures, water ratios, and exact mixing instructions for kitchen, bathroom, floors, baby-safe, and pet-safe use — the full walkthrough already exists, room by room.
Open the Dilution Guide →Every batch is small-batch, made with care. We're a family-run company, not a corporate lab — this page exists so you don't have to take our word for any of it.
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