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"After 25+ years cleaning up polluted soil and water, we turned that same science on the products inside your home."
Diana Trasente, CEO, M.Eng.
Environmental Engineer & Co-Founder
Real Households.
What Customers Say After the Switch
From greenwash-burned shoppers to allergy households — here's what changed when they swapped in Sampson.
Three ingredients and my towels still come out soft. After years of softeners that perfumed the whole laundry room, this one just does the job and disappears. No headache from the smell.
My daughter has eczema and most softeners flare her up. Unscented was the deciding factor — no reaction, and the static on her fleece is gone. We add a couple drops of the lavender oil for our own loads.
Works well and I like the short ingredient list. Softening is good on clothes and sheets — a touch lighter on heavy towels than my old brand, but I expected that going unscented. Happy to keep it out of the watershed.
Front-loader HE, no issues. The static cling on synthetics is what sold me — winter laundry used to crackle, now it doesn't. Clean ingredient list I can actually read, made in Montreal. Switched the whole house over.
What's actually doing the softening in most bottles
Conventional fabric softener leaves more behind than softness.
Most drugstore softeners carry a heavy synthetic-fragrance load, dyes, and a long list of additives — and that fragrance is applied to fabric that sits against your skin all day and gets warmed in the dryer. Sampson Eco Fabric Softener is three named ingredients: water, one plant-derived softening active, and a preservative. No phosphates, no VOCs, no phthalate-carrier fragrance.
Phthalate metabolites are detectable in nearly all people tested in national biomonitoring — and synthetic "fragrance" in laundry and cleaning products is a recognized exposure route that needs no ingredient disclosure (CDC NHANES)
Phthalates hide in laundry-product ingredient lists under "fragrance" — no regulation requires their disclosure (Health Canada)
Canada legislated a 0.5% phosphate cap in cleaning products in 2010 — Sampson rules them out entirely, at zero (Canada.ca)
Built by Engineers. Not Marketers. Conçu par des ingénieurs. Pas des marketeurs.
We Spent 30+ Years Cleaning Up Contamination. Then We Checked Under the Sink. Nous avons passé 30+ ans à décontaminer des sites. Puis nous avons regardé sous l'évier.
Diana Trasente and Angelo Diadelfo are environmental engineers with Master's degrees and over 30 years remediating contaminated soil and water across Canada. They know industrial chemicals intimately — PCBs, heavy metals, synthetic surfactants, petroleum solvents. Diana Trasente et Angelo Diadelfo sont des ingénieurs en environnement avec des maîtrises et plus de 30 ans d'expérience en décontamination de sols et d'eau au Canada.
Then they started reading the labels on their own household cleaners. The same classes of synthetic chemicals they spent their careers cleaning up were sitting in their kitchen, bathroom, and laundry room. Puis ils ont commencé à lire les étiquettes des nettoyants ménagers chez eux. Les mêmes classes de produits chimiques qu'ils passaient leur carrière à nettoyer se trouvaient dans leur cuisine, salle de bain et buanderie.
In 2010, they founded Sampson Eco Shop — applying the same scientific rigor to household cleaners that they applied to environmental remediation. Every product starts with one question: What's actually in here, and is it safe to put down a drain? En 2010, ils ont fondé Sampson Eco Shop — appliquant la même rigueur scientifique aux nettoyants ménagers qu'à la décontamination. Chaque produit commence par une question: Qu'est-ce qu'il y a vraiment dedans, et est-ce sécuritaire de l'envoyer dans un drain?
“Every cleaner we make starts with the same question we'd ask on a contamination site: what's actually in here, and what happens when it goes down the drain?” “Chaque nettoyant qu'on fabrique commence par la même question qu'on poserait sur un site contaminé: qu'est-ce qu'il y a vraiment dedans, et qu'est-ce qui se passe quand ça va dans le drain?”— Diana Trasente, M.Eng. — Diana Trasente, M.Ing.
The Method
How three ingredients make fabric soft
A plant-derived active deposits on clean fibres during the rinse and reduces the friction that makes fabric feel rough and build static.
Released during the rinse
The dispenser holds the softener back until the rinse cycle, so the plant-derived active meets clean fibres after the detergent has been flushed away.
Deposits onto the fibres
The softening active is attracted to fabric and lays down a thin, even layer across the surface of each fibre — the layer that does the softening.
Reduces friction and static
That layer lets fibres slide past one another instead of catching — so fabric feels softer to the hand and synthetics build up far less static charge as they tumble dry.
Breaks down downstream
What rinses away is water-based and biodegradable to OECD 301D — it breaks down in standard waste-water treatment rather than persisting in the watershed.
One Line. Every Room.Une gamme. Chaque pièce.
14 Cleaners. Same Engineers. Same Standards.14 nettoyants. Mêmes ingénieurs. Mêmes standards.
Replace what's under your sink one product at a time. Every Sampson Eco cleaner is plant-based, biodegradable, and built by environmental engineers.Remplacez ce qui est sous votre évier un produit à la fois. Chaque nettoyant Sampson Eco est à base de plantes, biodégradable et conçu par des ingénieurs en environnement.
FloorsPlanchers (2)
Eco-Strips Floor CleanerBandelettes pour planchers
Dissolvable strips. No bottle. 60 strips/pack.Bandelettes dissolubles. Sans bouteille. 60/sachet.
Eco Floor Cleaner (Liquid)Nettoyant planchers (Liquide)
Concentrate refill. Same chemistry, liquid format.Recharge concentrée. Même chimie, format liquide.
Kitchen & SurfacesCuisine & surfaces (4)
Eco Dish SoapSavon à vaisselle
Cuts grease. Plant-derived. No phosphates.Coupe la graisse. Végétal. Sans phosphates.
Eco All-Purpose SprayVaporisateur tout usage
One bottle, every surface. Streak-free.Une bouteille, chaque surface. Sans traces.
Eco Stainless SteelAcier inoxydable
No oily residue. Cleans, doesn't coat.Sans résidu huileux. Nettoie sans enrober.
Eco Super DegreaserDégraisseur puissant
Cuts industrial grease without solvents.Coupe la graisse industrielle sans solvants.
Bathroom & GlassSalle de bain & verre (2)
Laundry & HandsLessive & mains (4)
Eco Laundry HELessive HE
HE-certified. Plant surfactants. Quats-free.Certifié HE. Tensioactifs végétaux. Sans quats.
Eco Fabric SoftenerAssouplissant
Soft fabrics, light scent. Plant-derived softening.Tissus doux, parfum léger. Adoucissement végétal.
You're HereVous êtes iciEco Hand SoapSavon à mains
Plant surfactants. No drying SLS or parabens.Tensioactifs végétaux. Sans SLS ni parabènes.
Eco Foaming Hand SoapSavon à mains moussant
Pre-foamed. Less product per wash. Same plant base.Pré-moussé. Moins de produit par lavage. Même base végétale.
Replace what's under your sink, one cleaner at a time.Remplacez ce qui est sous votre évier, un nettoyant à la fois.
Every cleaner in the line is engineered by Diana & Angelo. Same standards, every formula.Chaque nettoyant de la gamme est conçu par Diana et Angelo. Mêmes standards, chaque formule.
Format Matters
What's in the bottle, line by line
The same softening job, with a short water-based formula instead of dyes, heavy fragrance, and phosphates.
| Sampson Eco Fabric Softener | Conventional drugstore softener | "Eco" / greenwashed softener | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Named ingredients on label | 3 (water + softening active + preservative) | Long list plus "fragrance" undisclosed | Partial disclosure typical |
| Softening active origin | Plant-derived | Often tallow- or petroleum-derived | Rarely specified |
| Fragrance | Ships unscented; choose from 20+ natural essential-oil fragrances | Heavy synthetic load — phthalate carrier likely | Single "natural" scent, source rarely disclosed |
| Dyes / colourants | None | Common | Sometimes |
| Phosphates | None — ruled out at zero | Up to the 0.5% legal cap | Sometimes claimed phosphate-free |
| VOC content | None — water-based | Present via fragrance and solvents | Sometimes disclosed |
| Biodegradable to OECD 301D | Yes (disclosed on label) | Rarely | Sometimes claimed |
| HE-machine compatible | Yes | Varies | Varies |
The format is the difference. Same plant chemistry, same engineering rigor — without the bottle, the water weight, or the synthetic add-ons.
Common Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Static, towels, HE machines, dosing, and what's actually on the label.
