When considering making sustainable habit or product changes in your home, the bathroom is an easy place to begin. The household, personal care, and beauty isles are filled with catchy marketing and reinforcing old habits. Habits are hard to break, but feeling empowered and knowledgeable about your choices makes the building of new habits easier. I invite you to look around your bathroom and consider habit or product swaps you can make today.
Using recyclable bottles is a great start. To take it to the next level, try getting creative with your own homemade products, supporting local businesses by buying direct, and researching other products that have very little packaging and environmental impact. As far as product changes, I would recommend researching your options before you run out of a product. In this way, you are prepared for the new swap when you run out of the old. For example, you notice you are starting to run low on floss, this is an opportune time to decide on a more sustainable product. For floss in particular, I have found the company Dental Lace to be a great option. They sell glass and stainless-steel refillable containers. They also have different types of floss to choose from.
Going with more sustainable products can reduce your household costs as well as time spent shopping. Ease the strain on the environment, your wallet, and your health by moving toward a more sustainable home.
In March of 2020, I discovered Package Free Shop. They were my gateway to using sustainable items, using less plastic packaging, and learning about the other company’s products they carry. Click the links below to see what I use today:
Dental Lace: Toothbrush and Floss
The Sustainable Tomorrow: Bamboo Electric Toothbrush
Toms of Maine: Toothpaste (recyclable tubes)
Georganics: Mouthwash tabs
Package Free Shop: various shower items (shampoo and conditioner bars, body soap bars, shaving soap bars, razor, loofah), toilet brush and stand, washable cotton makeup remover pads, bamboo hairbrush
Ginger Chi: dry brush, body oil, hair and scalp oil
***Makeup and skincare are highly personalized. I have spent decades finding the right products. I am currently using GlyMed Plus and Ilia Beauty***I also recommend Meow Meow Tweet and Evan Healy***Here is a LINK to a Harper’s Bazar article on refillable makeup***