BatchwellHome & cleaning
All-purpose sprays, laundry and dish soap, scrubs, dishwasher tabs and wool dryer balls. A cleaner is a household product, not a cosmetic, so it gets its own labels, its own claim rules and its own checklist.
What it does for you
- Cleaner labels from the batch
- Net contents, ingredients by their common names and your name and address, printed from what went into that lot. Set the signal word once on the recipe, CAUTION, WARNING or DANGER, and the label carries the hazard, precautions, first aid and "Keep out of reach of children."
- A check for germ claims
- Words like "disinfects", "antibacterial" or "kills 99.9%" make a cleaner a pesticide that needs EPA registration. If one is in the product name or notes, Batchwell says which and holds the print until it's gone. "Cleans" and "freshens" are fine.
- A cleaner never gets a lotion label
- Mark each recipe as a household cleaner and its labels, rules and tips follow, even in a brand that also makes body care.
- Safety data sheets on every lot
- Keep the supplier's SDS with each lot of washing soda, citric acid or alcohol. The SDS tells you whether the product needs a warning label and how you can ship it.
- Weigh-ins and lot codes
- Your recipe scaled to the batch, with a target and a tolerance for every ingredient, and a lot code on every bottle so you can trace it if anyone asks.
- Test goals that fit
- Score trials on what matters for cleaners: cleans the target soil, no streaks, sprays to the last drop, stays mixed on the shelf, pH and suds for HE machines.
- Why did it go cloudy?
- The troubleshooting library covers streaking, separation and cloudiness, and clogged spray nozzles, with likely causes and what to try.
- Cost per bottle
- Ingredients, the bottle and trigger at landed cost, your time and your overhead, and what each one leaves you wherever you sell it.
- A starter shelf and a checklist
- One tap adds common cleaning supplies, from washing soda to trigger sprayers, with the hazardous ones flagged. Rules for what you sell covers cleaners vs. cosmetics, claims, warning labels, child-resistant closures, SDSs, shipping sprays and ingredient disclosure in California and New York.
- Getting started
- A guide for all-purpose sprays and cleaners: gloves and goggles, what never to mix, why water-based sprays need a preservative, and the common mistakes.
What we’re building next
Home & cleaning is the newest kind of making in Batchwell. Makers in the beta set what comes next for it.
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Questions
- Is my castile spray a cosmetic?
- Not if it's for cleaning your home. Household cleaners are regulated by the CPSC, not the FDA. Say it's for skin too and the body care rules apply to that use.
- Can I call it antibacterial?
- Not unless it's registered with the EPA. Germ-killing claims make it a pesticide, even with natural ingredients. Say what it cleans instead.
- I also make soap. Do I need a second account?
- No. Run cleaners as their own brand in the same workspace, so their labels and checklist stay apart from your body care.
Rules change. Batchwell links every item to the official source; nothing here is legal or tax advice.
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