Seven names, seven numbers
Each 10 mL of Beyond Wash contains seven things. All seven are printed on the back panel of the bottle with their exact quantities, and all seven are set out in full on this page.
The list
Seven ingredients,
printed on the back panel.
Beyond Wash is a herbal neutralization formulation spray for fruits and vegetables, and this page is where the whole of it is written down. The full composition is printed on the back panel of the bottle, ingredient by ingredient, in millilitres per 10 mL. Not a proprietary blend of botanicals. The actual list, with the actual quantities.
Pack disclaimer. It is a herbal neutralization formulation spray. For external use on fruits and vegetables only.
Aloe vera
Plant gel that carries the formula evenly across the skin of the produce.
Tulsi ark
Holy basil distillate, the courtyard plant of Indian homes.
Ajma ark
Ajwain distillate — the kitchen ingredient your grandmother reached for first.
Samundra lavan
Sea salt, the largest of the three salts in the formula.
Sindha namak
Rock salt, the one Indian kitchens keep for fasting days.
Sanchal
Black salt, long used in Ayurvedic preparations.
Water
Purified water — the carrier, and nothing more.
One by one
What each ingredient does.
Aloevera — 1.0 mL in every 10 mL
The largest herbal share in the bottle.
Aloe vera is a plant Indian households have kept close for generations, thick leaves holding a clear gel that people know from a pot by the door or a corner of the kitchen garden. Ayurvedic tradition knows it as ghritkumari. Here it is the largest herbal share in the bottle, one millilitre in every ten, which is more than either ark and more than any of the three salts. It is the first entry on the panel, and it is the first entry on this page for the same reason.
Tulsi ark — 0.5 mL in every 10 mL
The courtyard plant, taken down to a distillate.
Tulsi needs no introduction in an Indian home. The plant stands in its own pot near the door, in flats in Mumbai as much as in village courtyards, and Ayurvedic tradition has known it by that name for centuries. Ark is the old word for a distillate. Half a millilitre of that distillate goes into every ten, which makes it the larger of the two arks on the list. Only water, aloe vera and samundra lavan appear in bigger quantities than this on the panel.
Ajma ark — 0.3 mL in every 10 mL
Ajwain from the masala dabba, in liquid form.
Ajma is better known in Indian kitchens as ajwain, the small ridged seed that sits in one corner of the masala dabba. It goes into parathas, into besan batter for pakoras, into achaar. Ajma ark is the ark form of the seed, sharp and warm on the nose. At 0.3 mL in every ten it is the smaller of the two arks, level with sanchal at the bottom of the list. The panel still gives it a number in millilitres like everything else, so a small share is a stated share rather than a trace folded into a blend.
Samundra lavan — 0.7 mL in every 10 mL
Sea salt, the largest of the three salts here.
Samundra lavan is sea salt. Sea salt anywhere is made by letting seawater stand in shallow pans until the sun takes the water away, which is the sense in which the name is used on the panel. It is the largest of the three salts here, 0.7 mL in every ten, and the biggest entry on the list after water and aloe vera. Salt needs no introduction in an Indian kitchen, from pickling season in June to the bowl of salted water many of us soak bhindi in.
Sindha namak — 0.4 mL in every 10 mL
Rock salt, the one kept for fasting days.
Sindha namak is rock salt. Indian households know it best from vrat cooking, when it stands in for table salt on fasting days, and from the chaat counter, where it turns up over cut guava and boiled peanuts. Ayurvedic tradition treats the salts as a family, the lavanas, and sindha namak is one of the names on that list. In this formula it sits at 0.4 mL in every ten, the middle of the three salts by volume, below samundra lavan and above sanchal.
Sanchal — 0.3 mL in every 10 mL
Black salt, the one you can smell across the room.
Sanchal is black salt, the kala namak that turns a bowl of cut fruit into chaat and gives jaljeera its particular smell. Indian kitchens keep it for that sulphurous note as much as for saltiness, which is why a pinch of it is unmistakable in a glass of nimbu paani. At 0.3 mL in every ten it is the smallest of the three salts, level with ajma ark, and it is the last of the six entries before water on the panel.
Water — 6.8 mL in every 10 mL
Most of the bottle, and we say so.
Water is 6.8 mL of every ten, and we would rather print that plainly than bury it at the bottom of a panel. A spray has to be mostly water. The pack asks you to wash with clean water first, spray the entire surface at a distance of 12 inches, and wait 60 seconds without touching. The dosage is printed on the pack as well: 1 mL purifies up to 3 kg of produce.
Just as important
What is not in the bottle.
No added colour
The liquid is whatever colour the seven ingredients make it. Nothing has been put in to make it look greener or bluer than it is, and nothing has been added to change it. A colouring agent would be an eighth entry, and there is no eighth entry on the panel.
No synthetic fragrance
What you smell comes from the ingredients on the list, and nothing else. There is no perfume laid over the top, and nothing has been added to cover up the ingredients that are actually in it. Two arks, three salts, aloe vera and water: that is the whole of what is in the bottle to smell.
No chlorine
There is no chlorine in the composition. You can check that against the panel yourself: seven entries, seven quantities, and chlorine is not one of them. The pack calls this a herbal neutralization formulation spray, and the seven entries are what that phrase adds up to.
No bleach
No bleach of any kind. Beyond Wash is a herbal neutralization formulation meant for the surface of fruits and vegetables. It is not a household disinfectant or a sanitiser, it is not built as one, and we do not sell it as one.
No secret blend
There is no line on the panel that reads and other ingredients. Seven entries, seven quantities, adding up to 10 mL. If something is not on that list, it is not in the bottle.
The small print, in full size
Read the whole of it.
The pack describes this as a herbal neutralization formulation spray, and that is the honest description. It is meant for residues sitting on the surface of fruits and vegetables after they have travelled from the field to the mandi to your kitchen. The badge on the front reads neutralises up to 90%* of harmful toxins. That began as the manufacturer's figure; independent lab results for the formulation, including over 99% less pesticide residue on mango and onion, are summarised on our Lab Results page.
A few plain rules that come straight off the pack. It is not for drinking. Keep it away from children and away from eyes. Store it in a cool, dry place out of direct sunlight. And use it as printed: wash with clean water, spray the entire surface at a distance of 12 inches, wait 60 seconds without touching, then it is ready to eat, cook or store. For produce eaten raw, a final rinse under running water is recommended.
FSSAI marked. Manufactured by Aswin Ayurved Plus, 3 Devshrushti Ind. Park, Kubadthal, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 382430 (Lic. No. 10726994000695). Marketed by M K Pharma, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 382350, India (Lic. No. 10726994000579). If you want to ask a person about any line on this page, WhatsApp or call +91 95377 66696 or write to care@beyondwash.in, Monday to Saturday, 10 am to 7 pm IST.