The Lipase List Updates - 01/06/2026

Lipase List Updates - 01/05/2026

New Year, new Lipase List Updates.  Find the list, as always at Lipase List

This update only includes the Detergent and Pretreater tabs - the booster tab will follow.

My First Deletions!

• Grab Green has been reformulated and the new formula does not contain lipase.  Old photos, description and product are likely still out in the supply chain.

• The Unscented Co. Tabs have been discontinued but are still available at some Canadian retailers.  See below for the replacement

New Additions:

• 123 - Stealth Henkel Powder (pictured, left)  - this is not made by Henkel North America Consumer Products, the division that makes Persil for Anglophone/Francophone North America.  Rather, it’s made by Henkel Mexico.  The formula overall is not like Persil powders, nor is it like many Mexican or Anglophone North American powders.  It’s sort of retro - bulked with sodium sulfate, the dose for a regular load is 1 cup, going to 1 1/2 cups for large loads.  This is a throwback to like 1982 Cheer.  That said, there are some interesting features here.   It’s got anti-redep and cellulase, it’s OBA free and it doesn’t have oxygen bleach.  Is this the Holy Grail powder for darks?   Probably not.  But it’s interesting enough that I’ve bought a bag for testing.  It’s also DIRT cheap.  I initially thought this was grey-marketed into the US.  I was wrong - it’s got a California-compliant ingredient disclosure and the packaging is entirely in English.  The versions purchased in the US are absolutely intended for sale here - the packages for Spanish-speaking North and Central America are very different.  I found this at a local supermarket in the PNW US; others have found it at Vallarta, El Super, some HEB stores and other Mexican-targeted markets.  I’ll do a bigger post on it when I’ve given it a better evaluation.   The enzyme blend seems like it may be particular to the Blooming Jasmine variant.

• Cadia:  primarily available to natural and independent grocers supplied by KeHE, this is a pretty typical green liquid with soapy ingredients, so it needs to be used with soft water (sub 75ppm hardness).

• Common Good:  a clean-ingredient liquid with a solid enzyme package, with soapy water softeners.    Available in fragranced and unfragranced.  An earlier version of the product was featured here for a few days - production just shifted to this formula which is NOT appropriate for wool or silk.

• Compliments:  This is the house brand liquid for Sobey’s/Safeway/IGA stores and some independents in Canada.  There are three conventional variants, all of which are confirmed to contain an excellent blend of enzymes from Novonesis.   Per the usual shenanigans with poor ingredient disclosure in Canada, a few columns are currently Unknown pending clarification from Sobey’s 

• Compliments Green Care:  Also a Sobey’s house brand, with plant-based surfactants and a bunch of other unknowns at the moment.

• Compliments Laundry Stain Remover:  Kind of a Zout-like formula, and a nice alternative to doing business with The Westons for those who are sensitive about billionaires who allegedly engage in price-fixing behavior.

• Ecologik 20X Liquid:  Canadian green liquid, typical formulation, notable for including cellulase, but positively loaded with soapy ingredients.  Dosing on the package is typically aspirational.  Start around 3mL / kg for typical loads in typical water in typical HE machines and adjust from there.  Avoid using in water over 75 ppm hardness.

• Field & Future - liquids and pods from HEB.   The liquid is a pretty standard green-formula liquid with soapy water softeners.   Liquid label reads a lot like Target’s Everspring.  Notable for including cellulase and being more honest than usual about the required dose.   would avoid the liquid with water over 50 ppm hardness unless softened with a plumbed-in softener.  The pods are a dry powder pack, heavy on the water softener, somewhat light on the surfactant, but notable for the inclusion of lipase and technically not containing any soapy ingredients.

• Guests On Earth (pictured left):   This is an interesting new liquid from a Canadian producer.  It has a very high-quality enzyme blend (including cleaning and care cellulases) and a fascinating combination of surfactants along with an interesting chelator / anti-redep agent.   From a label read alone, I do think this is going to need to be dosed higher than the label recommends.  They’re at 5mL per load, which would mean about 2kg / 4.5 # of textiles in my rubric that it’s virtually impossible to wash typical textiles in typical water with less than 3mL per kg of clothing.  So buyer beware, especially in water over 75ppm hardness.    Comes in fragrance free and scented.  Ships to the US as well.

• Leaf & Mineral Powder Pods:  dry powder in a PVA-skinned pod, no oxygen bleach, but a very comprehensive enzyme formula including cellulases.  Probably somewhat more hard water tolerant than their liquid.  Would benefit from an oxygen booster.  No anti-redep or OBA.

• Universal Companies Complete Pro Bioenzymatic Detergent - this is a product targeted to the spa, salon and hospitality marketplace.   Unscented, very low levels of water conditioner - likely to need a substantial dose modification or to be used with a separate powdered oxygen booster or water softener.    Notable for the inclusion of cellulase and a lack of OBA and fragrance.

• Unscented Co Pacs:  Replacing the French-made tablets, this is a Canada-made powder-pac.   Typical green powder approach - lots of water softener, somewhat low dose of surfactant.    Notable for the presence of cellulase, but also notable for the lack of oxygen bleach and TAED that made the tablets unique among unscented products.   Pacs have about 15g of active ingredient, so are probably good for about 3 kg of textiles each. 

• TrueLiving Laundry Detergent:  A house brand of Dollar General stores.  Highly fragranced, competing at sort of the Gain tier.  Notably decent enzyme blend and a balanced surfactant system.  Contains optical brightener.  No soapy ingredients, but may need pretty aggressive dose adjustments for hard water as it’s low on chelators.   

Changes:

• Open Nature (Albertsons Cos stores) now includes the Newborn variety

• Perwoll/Fleuril now includes the Dylon Renew branding, and the notes have been modified to indicate that only the black, red and white jugs contain lipase.

• Puracy Stain Remover has changed their formulae - now all variants appear to contain fragrance.

• Tandil Original fragrance has been added.  Note that you can probably identify at a glance if you’re looking at a jug with lipase by looking for “bumps” in the grip area of the jug handle.  No bumps, no lipase.  

As always, the presence (or absence) of a product from the Lipase List is based solely on publicly-available ingredient information.  No money has changed hands for inclusion on the list.  You can view my financial transparency disclosure here. 

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