Sonett

In the beginning, there were the water and the natural scientist Johannes Schnorr who by using the drop picture method detected the extent to which drinking water was polluted by laundry detergent surfactants as early as the late 1960s. This was the incentive for the Company Sonett to be founded in 1977, and thus the idea of environmental friendly washing in a modular system was born. Abstaining from any petrochemical raw materials, deliberately renouncing genetic engineering, using no enzymes but rather oils and essential oils derived from organic plants, continues being the ecological criteria applied to date for sustainable washing and cleaning. We see the purpose of our work in not only wanting to decrease pollution of nature and, above all, water, but we rather consider water to be the essence of all life and wish to respect and revitalize it. Apart from ecology, one of Sonett's main concern is the social orientation on all levels, i.e. towards employees, customers and suppliers, an orientation which our economic success is also based upon. We consider the basis of our social responsibility understanding that in today's business life it is cooperation and mutual support that counts rather than competition and one's own interest. Today Sonett is represented by our wholesale partners in more than 50 countries worldwide. we are the marketleader of the organic sector in Germany and label our products in 12 languages. Sonett currently employs 120 people, with an additional 36 people with disabilities working for Sonett at the neighbouring Camphill Werkstätten Lehenhof.