7 Sustainable Brands for a Plastic-Free Bathroom
There's hidden plastic in our beauty and personal care items. Our shampoos, conditioners, and soaps often come in plastic bottles. Even our toothbrushes and cosmetics have plastic. This plastic breaks down into microplastics and gets washed away from our bathrooms into the oceans. We may even be ingesting some of it.
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Wondering how to avoid microplastics in your bathroom? There are a lot of sustainable brands offering low-waste solutions such as bamboo toothbrushes, plastic-free razors, and refillable shampoos and soaps.
Here are some of our favorite brands that can give your bathroom a sustainable makeover:
Amika
Refillable hair care products
Amika, a brand renowned for hair care, offers refill pouches for its best-selling shampoos and conditioners. This allows consumers to easily refill and reuse their existing shampoo and conditioner bottles, helping them reduce plastic waste.
Leaf Shave
Innovative plastic-free razors
Leaf Shave is all about sustainable grooming. It provides plastic-free razors and shaving accessories, and you can even refill their shaving oils and serums, which come in recyclable glass bottles. When you are done using them, just clean and recycle them or up-cycle them for other liquids. It makes its bottle caps from aluminum, a material that has a higher recycling rate than plastic.
Boonboo
Bamboo hygiene products
Boonboo makes 100% bamboo dental care and personal care products that are biodegradable and plastic-free and won’t add to the landfill and ocean pollution problem. Its dental floss is plastic-free and comes in a refillable glass bottle. It also makes reusable makeup removal pads that are plastic-free and biodegradable.
The Earthling Co.
Plastic-free hair and body care products
The Earthling Co. provides hair and body care products in plastic-free, solid forms. These include shampoo bars, conditioner bars, and various skincare products in compostable packaging. For its liquid products, such as the Daily Body Lotion, it uses aluminum and glass packaging instead of plastic.
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Kate McLeod
Waterless bath and bodycare products
Traditional bath and bodycare products are mostly water and transporting that water generates a lot of carbon emissions. Kate McLeod offers a sustainable alternative to this by offering these products in a waterless format. These waterless formulas save 65% of carbon emissions from transportation. The brand sells these products in a plastic-free, reusable and refillable packaging.
Rizos Curls
Refillable hair care products
Rizos Curls, a Latinx-owned hair care brand, actively reduces landfill waste through its refillable bottles and reusable pumps. It uses high-quality natural ingredients and avoids silicone, toxic chemicals, parabens, and sulfates in its formulations.
Wild Elements
Refillable natural body care products
Wild Elements offers natural body care products and science-driven health supplements that are vegan and cruelty-free certified. Instead of plastic product packaging, it uses 100% recycled aluminum bottles. It also offers refills and encourages consumers to reuse the existing pumps in the bottle.