Bath day,made gentle.

Eight botanicals do most of the work in our formulas. Here is each one, what it is for and where you will find it. No sulphates, parabens, artificial colours or heavy perfumes.

1. No. 01

   Colloidal oat

   Avena sativa

   Finely milled oat that softens water and leaves a soothing film over dry, easily upset skin.

   Oat & Calendula Wash

2. No. 02

   Calendula

   Calendula officinalis

   Marigold petals steeped in sunflower oil. Calms and comforts skin after bathing.

   Wash, Paw & Nose Balm

3. No. 03

   Chamomile

   Matricaria chamomilla

   A gentle flower water that brightens pale coats and keeps skin feeling calm.

   Wire Coat Wash, Silk Rinse

4. No. 04

   Aloe vera

   Aloe barbadensis

   Cooling leaf juice that adds slip to the coat so knots loosen without tugging.

   Knot-Away Mist, Curl Cream

5. No. 05

   Shea butter

   Vitellaria paradoxa

   A rich, fair-trade butter that softens curls and cracked paw pads.

   Curl Cream, Paw & Nose Balm

6. No. 06

   Kakadu plum

   Terminalia ferdinandiana

   A native Top End fruit, rich in vitamin C, that helps coats look glossy and bright.

   Curl Cream Conditioner

7. No. 07

   Rosehip oil

   Rosa canina

   A light seed oil that conditions guard hairs without weighing a double coat down.

   Double Coat De-shed Wash

8. No. 08

   Quillaja bark

   Quillaja saponaria

   A soap-bark tree whose natural saponins clean gently with a soft, low foam.

   Every wash we make

• pH-balanced for pets

  Dog skin sits at pH 6.2-7.4, closer to neutral than ours. Every wash is tested batch by batch to land in that window.

• Botanical, small-batch

  Blended in 40 litre batches in Brunswick from plant cleansers and Australian botanicals. Each bottle carries its batch number.

• Refill, return, repeat

  1 L pouches with a prepaid return satchel. Empties are washed and refilled or recycled in Melbourne, never landfilled.

Sydney Road, Brunswick - since 2018

A grooming salon that started bottling its own

Suds & Burrow began as a two-chair grooming salon at the Brunswick end of Sydney Road. Our founder, Odile Marchetti, trained as a cosmetic chemist before she trained as a groomer, and she could never find a wash she was happy to use on the itchy, the elderly and the very fluffy. So she started blending her own in the back room.

Clients kept asking to take a bottle home. Today we still make everything in 40 litre batches in that same room, from plant-derived cleansers, colloidal oat and native Australian botanicals, and we still use every formula in the salon before it goes on the shelf.

The size of every batch we blend

40 LThe size of every batch we blend

Average pH across our washes

6.5Average pH across our washes

Pouches returned and refilled

31kPouches returned and refilled

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