What is the scent in Sensitive Hand Wash?Updated 6 hours ago
TL;DR: The mild scent you notice in Sensitive Hand Wash comes from the raw ingredients: the coconut and sugar derived cleansers, aloe vera and chamomile. Fragrance-free means no perfume and no essential oils were added. It doesn't mean the formula has no smell of its own.
What is the scent in Sensitive Hand Wash?
Raw ingredients have a character of their own before anyone adds anything. In Sensitive Hand Wash the coconut and sugar derived cleansers bring a light, clean note, and aloe vera and chamomile add a soft botanical warmth. Put the formula together and it has a mild, soft smell, without a drop of perfume in it.
That smell is the ingredients, not a fragrance. Nothing has been added to create it and nothing has been added to cover it up.
What does fragrance-free mean?
Fragrance-free
No fragrance ingredient has been added. That covers synthetic perfume, perfume blends of any origin, and essential oils. Because no perfume has been added, there are no fragrance allergens to declare on the label.
Unscented
A different thing. Unscented products can include a masking agent added specifically to neutralise a smell. Sensitive Hand Wash does neither: nothing added to give it a scent, nothing added to hide one.
Fragrance-free is about what went in, not about whether you can smell anything. Raw ingredients still smell like themselves.
Why does the scent vary a little between boxes?
Raw ingredient sourcing shifts a little between batches, and the mild aroma shifts with it. That is what working with raw materials looks like, rather than locking a formula to a fixed synthetic perfume.
It doesn't change how the wash performs. If a box smells sharply different from what you're used to, get in touch and we'll take a look.

Fragrance-free, pH 5.5, matching healthy skin. HRIPT dermatologically tested and recognised by the Eczema Association of Australasia. Naturally derived, 94.90% per ISO 16128. Made in Australia.

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Last reviewed: September 2026 · Koh Australia
