Surcare is a small range of household and laundry products made by UK-based company McBride.
It is useful to many with skin allergies as the products are free of added fragrances – to which many ‘sensitive’ skinned people react.
Surcare fabric conditioner. Now safe.
They have long been listed on the MI Free site, albeit with one major caveat: that the fabric conditioner contained isothiazolinone preservatives, even though the other products in the range – washing up liquid, laundry detergent, laundry capsules, laundry powder – were safe.
Good news! The Surcare Sensitive fabric conditioner has now been reformulated with phenoxyethanol as a preservative, making Surcare an isothiaozlinone-free brand.
A warning, however, from McBride: this reformulation was completed towards the end of last year, and the product has a shelf life of 18 months. This means UK shoppers should be aware that the isothiazolinone-containing version of the fabric conditioner could be around until well into 2018, especially in smaller stores with slower stock turnarounds. Be careful also with online purchases from third-party vendors – ask that ingredients be checked, if you can, before ordering.
Another curious point about the fabric conditioner: it is not vegetarian. It now contains a tallow-derived ingredient. I’ve been told that this ingredient is only used in this particular product, as a surfactant, however, and not in the other Surcare products.
For more information on Surcare, see their website here.
Just researched who owns what brands and so glad Surcare is U.K. Based company whereas Ecover is Belgian who incidentally bought out the American Method brand