Household and cleaning

What this category covers

In customs terms this category resolves to 3 headings: 3307.49 — disinfectants; 3402.50 — other preparations for perfuming or deodorizing rooms; 3808.94 — surface-active, washing and cleaning preparations, put up for retail sale. The heading, not the category name, decides the duty you pay at destination, so two lines sitting next to each other on this page can clear at different rates. Each heading has its own page with the classification reasoning on it.

How these goods ship

At an average of 10 kg to the carton these are dense goods: a 20' GP reaches its 26-tonne payload with volume to spare, so the container weighs out and a 40' high cube buys nothing on this cargo alone. They are the lines to combine with light ones to make a full load work.

These figures are the average of the 2 published primary packs in this category and are a guide to which limit binds, not a quotation. Carton dimensions and gross weight are confirmed per shipment, and the container fill calculator works the arithmetic for your own cartons.

Handling and storage

Detergents, aerosols and alcohol-bearing toiletries are not all plain cargo: some lines carry a UN number and a class, which changes the documentation and what they may be stowed with. Where a line in this category is regulated for transport we say so on enquiry, before it is quoted rather than after.

Brands in this category

Ariel, Dettol, Generic / Unbranded, Tide. The one that is linked holds enough published lines to have a page of their own, with the packs and label languages we carry for it. We are not the brand owner for any of these and we do not manufacture. Goods are sourced as genuine branded stock for export; pack artwork and language vary by the origin a lot is drawn from.

What we hold

Across these 6 lines: 5 distinct retail pack formats, label languages available in Arabic and English. The smallest consumer pack we carry here is a 300 ml aerosol can and the largest a 2.5 kg poly bag. Everything is quoted on one full container per order, mixed across products where a single line will not fill it.

Documents that travel with the goods

Cosmetic lines in this category clear against an ingredient disclosure and a free-sale certificate, and several Gulf and African destinations register the product before the first import rather than at the border. Soaps and detergents may need a safety data sheet, and any line classified for transport carries a UN number that changes what it may be stowed with. These clear on commercial documents — invoice, packing list and certificate of origin — without a health authority in the chain, which makes them among the faster categories to move on a first order. The full list, and who issues each one, is on the documentation page. We name the document set for your destination before quoting, not after.

Combining this with other categories

An order is one full container, and 6 lines will not fill one on their own. These average 10 kg to the carton, so they reach the payload with volume left over. The load balances against lighter cargo: instant noodles and ramen at 0.54 kg, coffee at 2.22 kg, snacks and chips at 2.62 kg. Mixing across categories on one bill of lading is normal here and does not change the documentation. The container fill calculator takes your own carton figures and works out where the box stops.

What is not published here

1 of these 6 lines is listed but not yet fully specified — a customs classification still with our classifier, a carton quantity the stock list does not carry, or a production detail the supplier confirms per lot. Those pages say which, and the figure is confirmed with the quotation rather than estimated here.