Sonett

Hand Soap Citrus 10 fl oz (300ml)

Foam Soap for Kids/ Calendula 6.8 fl oz (200ml)

Hand Soap Rose 10 fl oz (300ml)

Hand Soap Lavender 10 fl oz (300ml)

Hand Soap Calendula 10 fl oz (300ml)

Hand Soap Sensitive 10 fl oz  (300ml)

All Purpose Cleaner 17 fl oz (0.5L)

Eco-Sponge 2 pack

Toilet Cleaner Mint-Myrtle 25.3 fl oz (750ml)

Sonett was founded 1977 as one of the first manufacturers of organic laundry detergents and cleaning agents. The company’s approach to management and quality is based on anthroposophical spiritual science. Sonett employs 60 people nowadays and thanks to their excellent quality sells their products worldwide in more than 45 countries.

Caring and feeling responsible for water as the essence of all life prompted the idea of the Sonett product range. The development of the Sonett laundry detergents and cleaning agents resulted from the research which the natural scientist Johannes Schnorr did at the “Institut für Strömungswissenschaften” (Institute for Flow Analysis) in Herrischried at the end of the 1960s. Using the drop-picture method he demonstrated the extent to which, even then, water was polluted by synthetic laundry detergent surfactants that cannot be degraded by nature. The shock regarding the state of the water prompted the initiative for the concept of a novel laundry detergent, which would be environmentally compatible and wholly biodegradable, using raw materials sparingly. This was the moment when the Sonett modular system was born. It is only if laundry detergent, softener and bleaching agent are being measured out separately, that the washing substances can be used to their best advantage.

40 years later SONETT is one of the leading manufacturers for organic laundry detergents and cleaning agents in Germany. For years the company has registered double digit growth rates. SONETT products are distributed worldwide in 45 countries, not only European countries but also Japan, Korea, China, Australia, Kazakhstan, Georgia and USA.

The Sonett product range to this date comprises 51 products. Sonett products, on principle, contain no enzymes, petrochemical surfactants, synthetic fragrances, dye-stuffs, preservatives, GMOs and nanotechnology, and they are wholly biodegradable. Olive oil, rape oil, sunflower oil, coconut respectively palm oil used for the soap production are 100 % derived from certified organic cultivation. All of the essential oils are 100% organically grown as well. The entire assortment is certified fulfilling the criteria of Ecogarantie, the currently highest quality standard for laundry detergents and cleaning agents worldwide. Since 2011 Sonett has been certified as a „climate neutral“ company according to the STOP CLIMATE CHANGE Standard CO2.

Sonett has also been certified in conformity with the CSE Standard (Certified Sustainable Economics) by the Society for Applied Business Ethics since 2015. Contrary to product certifications this label takes into account the entire company. Apart from the ecological requirements the company’s social and ethical inclinations are assessed as well.

Caring and feeling responsible for water as the essence of all life, has made Sonett come into life. Water as such is the actual laundry detergent and cleaning agent. By using readily and completely  biodegradable raw materials such as purely plant-derived soaps, sugar  surfactants, and minerals such as sodium carbonate and silicates, we  increase the washing performance of the water, at the same time  fostering its being returned to and reintegrated into the natural cycle.  Doing the laundry and cleaning are “cultural achievements” which, though useful to man, do pollute the water.
 

We consider it our task to do the laundry and cleaning in harmony with nature, and especially with the water, in a considerate and revitalizing way.
     

Our corporate philosophy and quality concept is based on anthroposophic spiritual science.

Due to our responsibility for the renaturation of waste water, we add to our Sonett washing and cleaning agents substances which have been rhythmatised in an oloide mixer, and work with process water that is swirled in twelve egg-shaped glass vessels.   

All of the ingredients we use are completely biodegradable and free of  enzymes, petrochemical surfactants, fragrances, dyestuffs,  preservatives, bleach activators, etc.
  

Raw materials from controlled biodynamic and organic cultivation

100% of the olive oil, rapeseed oil, sunflower oil, coconut oil and  shea butter we use, as well as all the essential oils, originate from  controlled organic cultivation.
  

Half of our electrical energy we obtain straight from a small  hydroelectric power station close by, whose capacity is used up almost  entirely by our company. The other half is supplied by Greenpeace  Energy.


Our heating we provide by jointly operating a state-of-the-art woodchips plant with Camphill Workshops Lehenhof.  

The entire Sonett Assortment has been certified according to the criteria of Ecogarantie – the premium symbol for ecological laundry detergents and cleaning agents offered in wholefood shops.


The symbol EcoControl guarantees that Sonett’s compliance with its own quality criteria is regularly monitored and confirmed by an independent control organ.
 

Sonett has been certified with the symbol Stop Climate Change. This is the highest standard for extensive analysis and certification of CO2. The label certifies the analysis of the entire enterprise regarding CO2 emissions and complete transparency as far as the processes causing CO2 are concerned. The analysis proves that Sonett hardly generates CO2 emissions due to heating and electrical energy.
 

Certified sustainable business management

Since 2015 Sonett has been certified according to the CSE standard  (Certified Sustainable Economics) of the Association for Applied Business Ethics. Contrary to pure product certification, this label  comprises the entire company. In addition to ecological product requirements, the company’s social and ethical orientations are certified.     

With their move into Deggenhausertal in 1996 Sonett became Lehenhof’s Camphill Workshops’ neighbour and partner. At present 25 people with special needs from Lehenhof work exclusively for Sonett. Three employees of the Lehenhof Workshops work in Sonett’s plant itself, a cooperation which is being considered highly enriching for both parties involved. Furthermore there is permanent co-operation with the Rehab Centre for Drug Addicts „Sieben Zwerge“ (Seven Dwarfs) as well as with the Georgenhof, an institution for children and adolescents with behavioural problems. The basis for Sonett’s cooperation and their involvement in manifold social activities is their belief that in today’s business life it is cooperation and mutual support that counts rather than competition and one`s own interest. In order to, for future times, retain this character of a business management based on partnership, the company’s proprietor is a non-profit foundation that protects the enterprise from being bequeathed or sold.

„Washing and cleaning are cultural achievements that, on the one hand, are beneficial to man, and, on the other, pollute water. We consider it our task to, in a constructive manner, harmonize them with nature and, above all, water“.

                                Beate Oberdorfer