BOUTIQUE RESTAURANT CLEANING PRODUCTS????

We have been approached by Sonnentor Penang, which is part of the Singapore based Real Food group, to recycle the organic Sunflower and Sesame Seed oils used in their cooking.

These guys are passionate about creating good, ethical and healthy food, and therefore it makes sense that they care about what happens to waste products, including their cooking oil.

The challenge then is for Indochine Natural’s co-founder, Dr. Mike Thair, to develop a liquid cleaning product using their organic cooking oil waste. First step will be a determination of the saponification value of this mixed organic oil, then to calculate a liquid soap making recipe, and run some tests to see if the recipe works. Test batches will then be produced, and these will be put through their paces in the restaurant to determine cleaning effectiveness  and ensure that staff are happy with the results.

If all works out ok, then we can start producing a liquid cleaning product from their waste organic cooking oil. This is a very nice and sustainable solution for a waste product, and producing what is truly a boutique cleaning solution.

Read more about Indochine Natural’s environmental and Fair Trade activities 

Email Dr. Mike if you would like to know more, or would like to discuss a boutique recycling solution for your restaurant. 

Setting up lab equipment for saponification value determination and test batch

SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING

A key company and product value at Indochine Natural is a move towards more sustainable packaging, and the current focus is our soap packaging.

Our primary packaging goals are:

·      Eliminate any product packaging that is not necessary

·      Ensure that the packaging fulfills all functional requirements, e.g. product containment and protection, convenience, accessibility, communication and marketing.

·      Design for accessibility to ensure that:

(i) the package can be easily opened by consumers, especially those with limited strength or movement (e.g. arthritis sufferers and the elderly).

(ii) essential information on the label should easy to read, and compliant with international cosmetics regulations.

The result of our efforts to move towards more sustainable packaging our new Kraft soapboxes that have been in use now since earlier this year. We have eliminated shrink-wrapping, and these boxes are a lot easier to open than the shrink-wrap. There is now more space for labeling, which has enables us to increase the font size and make the labels easier to read.

We encourage consumers to do their part, and recycle packaging. Also, please contact Indochine Natural  with your suggestions on how we can further improve and make our packaging more sustainable.

Check out our new Kraft soap boxes on the Indochine Natural website