You've seen the letters on our box — 100% PVA Free — and you may be wondering what we're on about. Fair. Here's the plain version.
PVA (polyvinyl alcohol, also written PVOH — same thing) is a synthetic, water-soluble polymer. It's the clear film on laundry and dishwasher pods, and it's the binder that holds most laundry detergent sheets together. When you run a wash, it dissolves into the water and goes down the drain with the rinse.
Honestly? It's good at the job. PVA is flexible, dissolves quickly, holds concentrated detergent neatly, and it's cheap. There's a reason it's the industry default — and none of those reasons are sinister.
What happens to PVA after it dissolves is genuinely debated. Dissolving isn't the same as disappearing: the question is how completely PVA breaks down once it leaves your machine, and that depends on conditions — wastewater treatment, the microbes present, and time. Some researchers and advocacy groups have raised concerns about how much fully degrades in real-world conditions; industry studies conclude that it biodegrades. Both sides publish, and both sides are sure.
We're not going to referee that fight. You'll never see PV2 claim that PVA is a microplastic, that it poisons waterways, or that brands using it are evil. We think you're perfectly capable of reading up and deciding for yourself.
We just built a sheet without it. PV2 sheets use alginate — a polysaccharide derived from brown seaweed — as the dissolving backbone. Alginate comes from a plant that grows in the ocean, and it's part of a biodegradable formula. Our sheets are fast-dissolving in hot or cold water and designed to rinse clean, with no PVA film in your wash — because there's no PVA in the sheet.
Not an accusation. Just a fact, and a choice. It's printed on the box, along with everything else.
Same sheet. No PVA.Tear-and-toss, fast-dissolving, works in every washer. The only thing missing is the synthetic polymer — and the fine print.
Yes — two abbreviations for polyvinyl alcohol.
No. 100% PVA-free, with no synthetic polymer binder of any kind. The sheet is held together by seaweed-derived alginate.
That's the debated bit, and we don't make claims either way. We simply don't use it, and we print our full ingredient list so you can check ours against anything.
Dissolving and breaking down aren't the same thing — what happens after the rinse is exactly what the debate is about. If you'd rather skip the question entirely, that's what PV2 is for.
100% PVA-free · seaweed-derived alginate · every ingredient on the box
