Some products show up everywhere — subway ads, Instagram, celeb endorsements. With this series, we're testing such products to conclude one thing: Does it live up to the hype?
Dropps, a plant-based, plastic-free, chemical-free, eco-friendly laundry detergent.
Dropps is a direct-to-consumer laundry detergent company. They offer subscription-based laundry pods, fabric softener, Oxi Booster, and even now sell dishwasher detergent. Their narrative is that they’re no-frills: no dye, no colors, completely hypoallergenic, and no plastic. Your cleaning pods or other items come in compostable cardboard packaging that doubles as the mailing package — and what your item is stored in until you use it. It’s a twofer.
- Countless Instagram ads
- Podcast ads
- Hysterical commercial (below)
I’m a freak about “clean” products and I preach about the importance of recycling to anyone who will listen. My house is full of miscellaneous glass spray bottles with varying concoctions of vinegar, water, and dish soap for different cleaning needs. I keep a bottle of vinegar by my laundry machine for extra smelly loads, and never ever buy anything with sulfates and parabens. You might call me high-maintenance, but I'm just trying to make sure my future child has a world to grow up in. Somehow, my laundry never really made it past purchasing from brands that offered “clean” or “free and clear” detergent. Then, I saw that Dropps commercial (the funny one with their CEO, naked in the bathtub) and thought, “Um, wow, how come no one thought of this before?”
In addition to working to eliminate single-use plastics in the laundry cycle, their cleaning products just work. The family behind the biz started out as sweater makers. When they couldn’t find a laundry detergent that was gentle enough for their wool sweaters, they invented their own (you might remember Cot ’N Wash from the '80s). Fast-forward to 2008 when Oprah Magazine featured Dropps, and then fast-fast forward to their semi-viral video campaign in 2019, and the rest is history.
I started out with a bundle from them: sensitive-skin (scent-free) laundry pods, Oxi Booster pods, fabric softener pods, a dishwashing detergent package of pods, and their New Zealand Wool dryer balls. (Why New Zealand wool? Because they practice sustainable sheep farming.) Instead of using tennis balls in the dryer with our sleeping bags post-camping, and having to run the dryer three times to get all that down dry and fluffed, one cycle with the Dropps dryer balls did the trick! Plus, even our stinkiest camping gear came out smelling fresh and feeling clean.
Their shipping is free, but I’m just adding my Dropps to my monthly Amazon Subscribe & Save , and it knocks the price per laundry load down to 20¢! That’s definitely cheaper than the detergent I was buying before. You get extra money off from Amazon by adding to your monthly subscription — or if you’d rather order directly from Dropps.com, they offer 20% off when you subscribe. It honestly doesn’t get easier than that.
I can't think of a single reason why you wouldn't switch to Dropps. The products just simply work — and help save the environment.
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