These eco-friendly cleaning products make sprucing up your home a more sustainable activity. From bathroom cleaners to scrubbers for doing the dishes, these products are essential for ticking off all of your household chores and feeling a little better about it in the process. And they can cut through even the worst of messes, including ancient-looking stains (we've all got them), mold, dust, and more.
In order to earn their title, these eco-friendly cleaning products have to do a little more than your usual cleaning supplies. By definition, to be eco-friendly, a product is likely to be made without toxic substances, and by using biodegradable ingredients instead. Eco-friendly credentials can also benefit from packaging that's recyclable, taking another step toward sustainable living.
You can slot your brand new eco-friendly cleaning products into the best cleaning caddy with pride soon, and get on with refreshing your home knowing you're doing your bit for the planet.
10 eco-friendly cleaning products for your sustainable home
1. Supernatural Cleaning Starter Set
Start afresh with this wonderful set that includes a range of different scents all packaged up lovingly in glass bottles. You can use these concentrates to clean floors, glass, mirrors, bathrooms and tiles, making them the most versatile pick for getting started. The packaging is super stylish too, which always helps.
2. Mrs. Meyer's® Clean Day Room Freshener Spray
This spray earns an eco-friendly badge since it's non-aerosol and all-natural, with no synthetic perfume. Instead, this air freshener is scented with natural essential oils. The scent is light, fresh, and inviting, just like all of the fragrances from Mrs. Meyer's. Geranium is our personal favorite right now (following a long stint with Basil), but if you have another Mrs. Meyer's scent you prefer, know that the room sprays smell exactly like the hand soap and cleaning liquid versions of the product.
3. Toilet Cleaner Starter Set
Going plastic-free can be a crucial step in living more sustainably. This perfect little toilet cleaner set can make your bathroom an eco-friendly Eden, with 14 foaming toilet cleaner tablets, toilet cleaner tins to keep them in and refill tablets available for an absolute steal of a price.
4. Wash Safe Industries Roof Wash
This roof cleaner can help to rid of your home of streaks, green stains and other debris, and is safe to use around pets, plants and people. So rather than harming your careful garden set up, this product will just work against all the things you need to get rid of.
5. Method Liquid Laundry Detergent
Method is an eco-friendly brand that goes the extra mile, with its excellent packaging and amazing scents. This eco-friendly laundry detergent is just one example of the excellent work Method is doing to make cleaning your home a little kinder on the planet. The bottle is made from 100% recycled plastic too, so you can also recycle it after use.
6. Good Home Co Biodegradable Laundry Detergent
Though many detergents have recyclable bottles, this pick has a bottle that you will actually want to repurpose in your home. Made by a small business and 95% plant based, the product inside is also pretty good and good for washing and for pre-treatment.
7. Seventh Generation All Purpose Cleaner Free & Clear
This cleaner is free from harmful fumes and perfect to use across your home. It's great for battling against dirt and grease, and so affordable too. Free of fragrances and with an 100% recyclable bottle, this is an excellent pick that's a real all-rounder.
8. Method Daily Wood Cleaner
This plant-based wood cleaner is an essential if you've got surfaces that need this very specific type of spray. Capable of removing dust and grime, and created to prevent harm to your careful surfaces, you can use this handy spray daily.
9. E-Cloth Starter Pack
Using these E-Cloths alongside your cleaning products mean you have a fully sustainable set-up. You can get any and every cleaning task done with these cloths, and these are suitable for countertops, appliances, and even glass. These cloths are environmentally friendly thanks to the precision-engineered microfiber texture, and you can wash them over 300 times to use them again.
10. Method Shower Cleaner Spray
Literally the easiest shower cleaner out there, just spritz it around your shower (when it's wet) and it just gets on with its job: dissolving watermarks, soap scum and residue. Oh, and it's free from toxic chemicals. The Method Shower Cleaner Spray is brilliant. Now you know how to clean a shower fast (and thoroughly), you've got no excuse.
11. AspenClean Bathroom Cleaner
Look no further for amazing eco-friendly cleaning products than AspenClean, which have affordable, incredible smelling cleaners for your whole house, as well as fantastic detergents. We've tried these cleaners out for ourselves, and found them to be kind to our home as well as the planet, and powerful too.
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