Dip ad: Yorkshire Imported London’s Wee

Why did we send barrels of wee from London to Yorkshire, and what’s it got to do with your clothes? Yorkshire was the cloth-mill capital of England, and the mills needed one thing more than anything: stale urine. Left to stand it turns to ammonia, and ammonia pulls the grease out of wool. So London’s chamber pots were emptied into barrels and shipped up the coast. Disgusting, and it worked, because that’s all laundry ever was: one or two things that lifted the dirt, and water to carry it off. Today a detergent can carry 25 ingredients or more, and the label can hide hundreds under umbrella words like ""fragrance"" and ""surfactants"". Most of them aren’t needed to get clothes clean, and some are linked to skin irritation and to hormone disruption. So we cut the list back down. A Dip laundry sheet is a dozen plant-derived, lower-impact ingredients, each one named on the box and each with a job. Cleaners made from plants grab the grease and let the water carry it away, the way the ammonia did. Enzymes take the protein and the starch apart, so sweat, grass and gravy come out at 30°. No brighteners, no dyes, and every fragrance ingredient checked against the ECHA list of hormone disruptors before it goes in, or a fragrance-free version if you’d rather. Over 10 million washes on, there are 1,500+ four- and five-star reviews on Trustpilot. The first box is half price: £6.00 for 30 washes, then £12.00 a month + £3.95 delivery. Laundry used to be simple, and it still can be.