Anyone who lives with dogs and cats knows: the house must be cleaned often, and well. Fur everywhere, paws coming in from the garden and after walks, surfaces that get dirty faster. But there is one thing we often don't consider enough: what we use to clean remains on the surfaces. And our animals experience those surfaces in a much more direct way than we do — they walk on them, sit on them, sniff them, and sometimes lick them.
This is why the choice of detergents, in a home with pets, is no small detail.
The problem with traditional detergents
A good portion of conventional detergents contains aggressive surfactants, synthetic fragrances, chemical preservatives, and substances that leave residue on surfaces even after rinsing. For a human who walks and touches floors with their hands, the risk is limited. For a dog or cat that walks barefoot, licks its paws after every walk indoors, and spends a good part of its time on the floor — the situation is different.
This is not alarmism. It is about consistency: if we carefully choose what our animals eat, it makes sense to choose the environment they live in with the same care.
Pet-Friendly Home
Home cleaning is a chapter we are working on with the same attention we dedicate to nutrition and care. That is why we selected R5 Living — an all-Italian project that shares our idea of uncompromising quality and respect for the environment.
But we aren't stopping there: we are evaluating other products that can complete the range and offer an answer suitable for every need. When we find something else that truly convinces us, you will find it in the shop. As always, without rushing and without compromising on quality.
Why we chose R5 Living
R5 Living is an Italian brand of eco-friendly detergents that we selected for exactly this reason. Their products are formulated with plant-based surfactants from a circular economy, tested by independent laboratories, and free from aggressive components that could pose a risk to animals living in contact with the cleaned surfaces.
The system works with refillable bottles — you buy them only once, then refill them with paper-packaged refills. Less plastic, less waste, fewer superfluous substances. A philosophy that pairs perfectly with that of That Fabulary Store.
The products you will find in our shop
🧴 Multipurpose → for all hard surfaces: tables, kitchen counters, furniture. The one you use to clean the places where your dog cleans its muzzle after eating, where the cat walks, where puppies might have a few accidents. Plant-based surfactants, no aggressive residues.
🍳 Degreaser → for the kitchen, where food products live. Effective on greasy dirt, safe on surfaces in contact with food.
🪣 Floors → perhaps the most important product in a home with animals. The floor is their territory — they sleep on it, play on it, walk on it every hour of the day. Formulated to clean deeply without leaving slippery or chemical residues.
💧 Sodium Percarbonate → eco-friendly sanitizer, whitener, and stain remover. Excellent for washing blankets, covers, and beds effectively yet safely, without aggressive chemical bleaches that could irritate animals' sensitive skin upon contact with fabrics.
🌬️ Odour Control → in a house with animals, odor is a daily reality. R5's Odour Control neutralizes it at the source, without masking it with intense synthetic fragrances that — especially for dogs and cats, with their much more developed sense of smell than ours — can be annoying or stressful.
The consistency we seek
Choosing natural products for your animal's nutrition and care, and then cleaning the house with aggressive products, is a contradiction worth noting. Not out of guilt — but because, when there is an effective and safe alternative, it makes sense to use it.
R5 Living is that alternative. You can find all the products in the Pet-Friendly Home section of our shop. 🐾
— Alessandra 🧡