Original Laundry Detergent Powder

For a safer, more powerful wash every time:

Step 1. Choose either warm or hot water. If your clothing requires cold water, opt for our All Sport Wash - Active Wear Detergent instead or pre-dissolve your powder in hot water before adding to your machine!

Step 2. Add the powder directly to your washing machine before adding laundry, for both standard and HE washing machines.

Step 3. Follow up the wash cycle in the dryer with our Wool Dryer Balls!

PRO TIP: If your home has hard water, add ½ cup of white vinegar to balance the pH level. Vinegar is a natural fabric softener! Use Oxygen Whitener as a laundry booster for extra dirty or stained loads — it’s a chlorine-free, color-safe bleach alternative.

We adhere to strict ingredient integrity, so you’ll never find harmful chemicals in our products. Molly’s Suds Original Laundry Detergent Powder includes only 4-5 earth- and plant-derived ingredients:

• Sodium Carbonate sourced from the Green River Basin in Wyoming
• Sodium Bicarbonate
• Magnesium Sulfate (Heptahydrate)
• Unrefined Sea Salt
• Essential Oil(s) and/or 100% Natural Fragrance(s)*

*Peppermint Scent contains Organic (Arvensis) Peppermint Oil

*Unscented contains no essential oils or fragrances

*All other scents contain 100% natural fragrances derived from plant essences & oils. Safer Choice & ISO-16128 compliant.

In a world where chemicals are not explained or closely regulated, it can be hard to find laundry and household cleaners made with truly safe ingredients. Here is a complete list of the ingredients we choose and why we use them! 

Molly’s Suds Original Laundry Powder does not contain: Harmful Fragrances, Dyes, Cancer-Causing Contaminants like Formaldehyde & 1,4-Dioxane, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Optical Brighteners, Synthetic Nonylphenol Ethoxylates, Petrochemicals, Phosphates, Chlorine, Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES), Phthalates, Parabens, Methylisothiazolinone, Cocamide DEA

Learn More About Our Original Laundry Detergent Powder

This is the product that started it all! Molly’s Suds Original Laundry Detergent Powder was the first laundry powder we created and is our flagship product. As Monica Leonard (our founder) began discovering the toxic chemicals included in common household cleaning products, she knew she needed to remove them from her home and replace them with safer, simpler cleaning products that really worked.

The one place she couldn’t find a satisfactory natural option? The laundry room! All of the natural products she tried didn’t clean well or left a sticky residue. Some of the ‘natural’ detergents included questionable ingredients. A truly clean, effective natural laundry detergent powder was nowhere to be found — so, she decided to partner with a green chemist to create her own!

A short time later, our Original Laundry Powder hit the shelves of our newly launched brand, Molly’s Suds. It’s a powerful and gentle detergent powder that remains one of our best sellers to this day.

To read more about the story of how Molly’s Suds came to be, click here.