At Les terrasses, we're doing everything we can to aim for zero waste. Our approach is far from perfect. But it does exist, and we're working to improve it over time.
Contrary to popular belief, clean doesn't smell!
If your laundry smells good, it's because the products you use contain synthetic fragrances. Our homemade detergent is made up of 4 ingredients: a good dose of organic soap flakes, soda crystals, bicarbonate of soda and water. It cleans all our laundry.
Our scouring cream is made from white fuller's earth purchased less than 20 km from home. It removes grease from kitchens and cleans bathrooms.
For washing up, we offer a solid soap made by ‘cold saponification’. This process is one of the most environmentally friendly. By chemically reacting soda ash with fats, it produces glycerine and soap. It requires very little energy and does not release any toxic products into the environment.
Using cold process soap means respecting the environment and taking a “zero waste” approach by refusing to use plastic bottles.
For dishwashing, we offer our “homemade” powder, free from surfactants, molecules that pollute oceans and coastlines, contaminating wildlife, the food chain and ending up on our plates.
We wash floors with organic black soap.
Many of you sort your packaging and compost your bio-waste on a daily basis. When we're on holiday, we sometimes lose our bearings and motivation suffers. To make sorting and composting as easy at Les Terrasses as it is at home, we've provided some practical tools.
In your gîte, you'll find a bin for sorting your packaging, which you can put in the containers provided, and a compost bucket for collecting your bio-waste before putting it in the compost bin in the garden.
Ever heard of washable and reusable sponges? We suggest you go one step further and try our washable and reusable coffee filters.
For heavily soiled dishes, we have eco-friendly brushes to complement our sponges.
As a finishing touch, you'll find recycled microfleece make-up removal pads in your bathroom. Super soft and less absorbent than cotton or bamboo, they save on milk and other lotions.