Refill

Eleven drums · sold by weight · bring anything that seals

Bring the bottle. We sell the litre.

Eleven drums on a rack, a set of scales on the counter and no packaging at all. You are charged for what goes in, to the gram, and the empty weight of your bottle is taken off before anything is poured.

What is on the rack
Two plain white bottles standing next to a small potted plant.

What is on the rack

Eleven at the moment. Six have been there since the first week and the other five change when something stops selling, which we would rather admit than keep pouring.

A white cosmetic tube lying on pale sand.

Washing up

The one everybody starts with. Concentrated, so a little goes further than the supermarket bottle you are used to, and unscented by default.

Per 100 ml38p A full litre£3.80 Scented, lemon+6p per 100 ml
A purple bottle with a dab of cream beside it.

Shampoo and conditioner

Two drums, made forty miles away, and the only two things here with a scent you cannot turn off. Bring two bottles or you will end up with a mixture.

Per 100 ml62p A full litre£6.20 Sample, 50 mlfree, once
A set of skincare products in a purple box.

Hand soap

Three drums: plain, oat, and the rosemary one that sells four times as fast as the other two put together and we do not know why.

Per 100 ml44p A full litre£4.40 Pump bottle, secondhand£1
A plain white tube standing against a dark background.

Laundry

Liquid, in the biggest drum on the rack. A litre does about thirty washes here, which is half what the bottle it replaces claims and roughly what it actually did.

Per 100 ml34p A full litre£3.40 Five litres£15.00
Orange bottles standing beside a large green leaf.

Surface cleaner

One drum, dilutes ten to one, and the spray bottle to put it in is behind the counter for a pound. Most people never buy a second one.

Per 100 ml29p A full litre£2.90 Spray bottle£1, refilled free
A white tube of cream on a white surface.

The solid shelf

Not a drum at all: soap, shampoo bars and dish blocks, sold loose by weight from a basket. No bottle needed and no scales either — they go in a paper bag.

Soap, per 100 g£1.90 Shampoo bar£4.50 Dish block£3.20

The bottle you bring

This is the part that trips people up on a first visit, and it is all much simpler than it sounds.

Anything that seals
Old shampoo bottles, jam jars, a milk container, a flask. It does not have to be pretty and it does not have to be ours.
Clean and dry, please
Dry especially. Water in the bottom of a laundry bottle turns a litre of concentrate into a litre and a bit of something weaker.
We weigh it empty first
Every time, in front of you, and the number goes on the label. You never pay for the weight of your own bottle.
Forgot it?
There is a shelf of donated bottles by the door, washed, free. Take one, bring it back when you are done with it or do not.
No mixing drums
One product per bottle. We will not pour shampoo into a bottle that has washing up liquid in it, however small the amount.
Too big to carry
Five litres and up gets delivered by bike within two miles on a Thursday, for two pounds.

If a drum is empty when you get here — it happens about once a week — you get a text the day it is refilled and the first litre is at cost.

Bottles arranged beside a large leaf, photographed wide.

What it actually saves

We worked this out for the shop window and then left it up, because the honest answer is that on some things it saves a lot and on others it saves almost nothing and you are here for a different reason.

Washing up, per litre£3.80 vs about £5.20

Laundry, per litre£3.40 vs about £4.00

Shampoo, per litre£6.20 vs about £11.00

Hand soap, per litre£4.40 vs about £4.30

Plastic bottles avoided, 2025about 9,400

A pale tube of product resting on sand.
A white product tube lying flat on a white background.

Where the drums come from

Four makers. Two are within fifty miles, one is in the next country and one is a co-operative we buy from because nobody closer makes a laundry liquid that works in hard water.

The drums go back to all four and get filled again. That is the only part of this that is genuinely circular and we try not to claim more than that.

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