Best-Selling Sustainable Cleaning Products You Need To Try
By Shelbi Evans
There’s no better feeling than kicking back on the couch, feet up, surveying your freshly cleaned home. Sparkly countertops, dust-free bookshelves, and crisp linens are both easy on the eyes and soothing for the soul. What a feeling, right?
In the process of cleaning and organizing, we often overlook some dirty ingredients that are hiding in popular household cleaning tools and solutions. These common chemicals and daily cleaning tools are harsh on the skin, mother Earth and can be dangerous when inhaled (not to scare you!). According to an article on theroundup.org, “Natural sponges, which are made from plant fibers, can take up to five years to break down completely. Synthetic sponges, on the other hand, can take hundreds of years and may never fully decompose at all…it's estimated that there are over 500 million synthetic sponges discarded each year in the United States alone.” Yikes.
The good news is you’ve got plenty of options. With so many eco-friendly brands out there, you’re bound to encounter greenwashing on more than one occasion. It can be difficult and overwhelming to parse through products and find the really good ones—formulas that are made with safe ingredients AND actually work. So, we did the work for you. We combed through reviews and looked at the goods that we sell out of most frequently. Here are a few of the highly reviewed, sustainable tools and products we think you’ll love!
Blue Land, Toilet Cleaner
“The first plastic-free toilet bowl tablet” is 100% Bio-Based! It’s made without chlorine bleach, hydrochloric acid, and dyes. The light lemon fragrance comes from essential oils. Blueland’s tablet is super easy to use; simply drop it in your toilet bowl, let it dissolve, give your toilet a brush, and then flush. Blueland Toilet Cleaner often sells out; it has 4.8 out of 5-star reviews. You can purchase the starter set, which comes in an adorable tin container. Once you’ve emptied it, Blueland sells refill packs that come in sustainable packaging.
KLIIN, 5-Pack Reusable Towels
We love KLIIN for a variety of reasons. They get the job done. What job, you ask? Oh, pretty much every job. These towels are great for cleaning household surfaces, from the kitchen to the bathroom to the window sill. But, that’s not all. They’re also ideal for packing in your lunch or for picnics.
Fanciful Fox, Lemon Basil Dishsoap Bar
These bars smell great and work just as well. It’s no wonder we regularly sell out of them! We love that they’re plastic-free and made with just a handful of natural & clean ingredients. You won’t find any harsh chemicals on their ingredients list. Instead, Fanciful Fox uses essential oils to create the zesty-lemon scent and squeaky clean result. The bars are super easy to use. Just lather up your reusable KLIIN cloth and get to washin'.
Meliora Cleaning Products, Soap Stick Stain Remover
There are only five ingredients in this stain-removing stick! Meliora is incredibly transparent about the ingredients they use in all their products. The Soap Stick Stain Remover is a solid (get it?) choice because it’s lightweight, safe, and easy on clothes as well as the skin.
The amazing eco-friendly stain stick is highly concentrated and packaged to minimize waste and environmental impact. By making a concentrated solid soap stick, Meliora eliminates the need for added preservatives or single-use plastic bottles.
Solid soap sticks are also more concentrated than liquid stain removers, which means they’re more energy and cost-effective. They also take up less space in your home—each stick comes in a super small 3.6 inches by 2.5 inches by 1-inch sized box—making them perfect for the average New Yorker who lives in a teeny-tiny apartment.
So there you have it! Our top picks will help you clean all the surfaces you could imagine, get rid of icky stains, leave a spotless toilet, and wipe down any dirty surface under the sun. Happy cleaning!