Eco-Friendly Products That Really Work
Reusable and “green” products are more relevant and essential than ever. During the recent supply line struggles and product shortages, sustainable choices met practical needs and proved invaluable to have around.
What are the top-rated Environmentally Friendly Products
Fortunately, these smart products are a great idea no matter what options are available at the store! Learn more below about which of these eco-friendly products stood out the most and earned the most 5-star ratings!
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Eco-Friendly Products That Work
Smartly designed products can make your job easier and be better for the environment. Check out the variety of ways to be more green and work with eco-friendly products!
Reusable Products for the Home
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There are many places in our modern homes that use a lot of single-use products. This may seem like the easy solution, but it creates additional waste for our landfills, plus the repeat purchases will cost you more in the long run versus making an investment in a one-time, reusable option.
Take a look at the lists below to see if these long-life products could work well in your household.
Sustainable Kitchen and Dining Products
There are many ways to reduce waste by using reusable kitchen products. The products below are a collection of my favorites — some have been especially handy during the paper-product shortages at the grocery stores!).
Washable Cloth Napkins
These upgrades to paper napkins are eco-friendly, and the washable cloth napkins also add an element of style to your meals that a paper napkin just can’t do.
For a fun bonus, there are many online tutorials on cool napkin folding to dress up your table (a great project for kids!).
Reusable Kitchen Towels
While traditional paper towels are convenient and can seem essential, these eco-friendly washable Swedish Dishcloths can do the job just as well. Click to learn more about these popular dishcloths, which have over 42,000 5-star reviews!
Reusable Water Bottles
Ensure you always stay hydrated with this highly-rated Stainless Steel Insulated Water Bottle. Available in a wide range of sizes and colors, these bottles are perfect for staying hydrated and reducing waste! Click to find your ideal match.
Enjoy Pure Water from Home with a Countertop Distiller
Get clean, distilled water with a Stainless Countertop Water Distiller and reduce the need to purchase plastic bottles of water from the store.
Soda and Seltzer Makers
Enjoy the convenience of making your favorite fizzy drinks at home with the SodaStream Terra Sparkling Water Maker. This smart product reduces the need to purchase and lug heavy drinks home from the store, and it also reduces waste from single-use bottles.
Fans of the Bubly brand will be excited to know they can purchase their favorite Bubly flavor drops for seltzer makers!
Stainless Steel Insulated Tumbler
The popular YETI Ramber 20 oz Reusable Thermos has 125,000+ 5-star reviews and is available in over 40 eye-catching colors! These highly-rated tumblers are more eco-friendly than disposable cups and keep hot drinks hot and iced drinks cold.
Stainless Steel Reusable Straws
Plastic straws contribute heavily to pollution, and other disposable straws have their drawbacks too. Consider switching to Reusable Stainless Steel Straws for an affordable, durable, highly-rated, and eco-friendly alternative!
Reusable Non-Stick Baking Mats
These food-safe reusable silicone non-stick baking mats will keep your food from sticking when it cooks and can be reused again and again. They also allow easy cleanup and eliminate the need for parchment paper and/or foil in some dishes.
Coffee Makers with Reusable Filters
Coffee is one of the world’s most popular drinks and how millions of people start their day. No matter how you enjoy your brew, these coffee-making methods can help you create less waste.
Reusable Coffee Filters
For standard drip coffee makers, choose a long-lasting, reusable coffee filter and eliminate the need for a disposable paper filter with each pot of coffee that you brew. As a bonus, the metal filters allow more of the coffee’s oils to pass through into the brew (versus paper filters), enhancing the flavor of your coffee.
French Press Coffee Maker
One of the best ways to start the day is with freshly brewed French Press Coffee. This double-insulated stainless steel French Press Coffee Maker comes in 2 sizes and can also be used for brewing tea, hot chocolate, and keeping frothed milk hot.
Pour-Over Coffee Maker with Permanent Filter
Savor your daily coffee in the Bodum Pour Over Coffee Maker, made from high-heat borosilicate glass carafe that won’t alter or impair flavors or aromas. Additionally, the permanent stainless steel filter doesn’t trap oils and reduces paper filter waste.
Percolator Coffee Maker
This Presto Stainless-Steel Electric Coffee Percolator is a standalone electric model that makes fresh coffee without paper filters!
Espresso Maker
For a small but mighty dose of concentrated coffee, make yourself a hot espresso at home anytime. This popular Bialetti Stovetop Espresso Maker has over 60,000 5-star ratings and is available in different sizes and colors to help you achieve the perfect cup!
Patented Deluxe Cold Brew Coffee Maker
Eco-friendly fans of cold-brewed coffee will love the Takeya Patented Deluxe Cold Brew Coffee Maker, which features a fine-mesh reusable filter.
Refillable K-Cups
Save money, reduce waste, and customize your morning beverage with any brand of ground coffee you like with a Reusable K Cup Coffee Filter Set!
Sustainable Bathroom Products
These bathroom ideas can help you reduce paper waste from one-time-use items in your bathroom without sacrificing comfort or cleanliness.
Self-Cleaning Non-Electric Bidet
Many cultures already prefer a bidet over toilet paper for its superior cleaning ability, but it’s also a great way to be less affected by any toilet paper shortages. This popular Non-Electric Bidet Attachment has over 90,000 reviews and features adjustable water pressure and a self-cleaning nozzle.
Additionally, if you have the space and someone to do the installation work, you could consider a standalone bidet.
Reusable Swab Cleaners
This set of reusable swab sticks includes different tip styles and a bamboo carrying case. The versatile swabs are made of bamboo silicone and can be sanitized and reused over and over again!
Mini Product Spatulas
This Set of 3 Mini Silicone Spatulas helps you get the last bit of expensive product from the hard-to-reach areas at the bottom of the bottle. Eliminate waste and save money by refilling less often, too!
Foaming Soap Dispensers
Enjoy stretching concentrated liquid soaps into rich handfuls of foam with the OXO Good Grips Stainless Steel Foaming Soap Dispenser. This popular dispenser features a non-slip base and has over 10,000 5-star reviews!
Eco-Friendly Household Items
These additional items can be used in many areas of your and will help eliminate the need to go to the store as often to replace single-use items like paper towels and duster mop refills. These products are an investment in quality, simplicity, and less time at the store to purchase replacements.
Reusable Microfiber Cleaning Cloths
A set of highly rated Reusable Microfiber Cleaning Cloths is excellent at grabbing dust and helping to curb dust around the house.
Reusable Sweeper Duster Mop Refills
Instead of purchasing single-use disposable duster refills, try a Swiffer-compatible Reusable Heavy Duty Mop Pad made from microfiber that can be rewashed and reused hundreds of times!
Reusable Dryer Balls
Eliminate the need for disposable dryer sheets and liquid softener with a set of Reusable Wool Dryer Balls that reduce wrinkles and static cling and save drying time.
Personal Eco-Friendly Products
These products are great ways to make a one-time purchase for things that you formerly needed to repurchase often. Consider these eco-friendly options instead of your usual personal products.
Vikings Blade Double Edge Safety Razors
Not only do Vikings Blade Double Edge Safety Razors provide a fantastic, clean shave, but they will also save money over disposable razors. In addition, a quality safety razor will provide one of the most comfortable shaves, plus a pack of refill blades will likely last for many years.
Reusable Microfiber Facial Cloths
These Fast-Drying Reusable Microfiber Facial Cloths are incredibly effective at removing heavy makeup from the eyes and face. TIP: For best results, saturate the washcloths with a lot of water.
Leakproof Period Underwear
Sanitary products can be quite pricey, so learning about money-saving and eco-friendly alternatives to disposable products is great. A pair of Washable Period Panties absorb fluids and can be washed and reused to save on this recurring monthly expense.
Reusable Silicone Menstrual Cups
Reusable Silicone Menstrual Cups are an innovative way to manage your menstrual flow without using disposable products. These BPA-free silicone cups can be washed and reused for up to 5 years, making them also a smart investment that can save money.
Reusable Cloth Pads
A set of Reusable Cloth Panty Liners and Sanitary Pads offer an affordable and eco-friendly option to single-use disposable options.
More Ways to Be Eco-Friendly
In addition to the smart products above, you can find new earth-friendly solutions to lots of household challenges.
Eco-Friendly Smart Devices
Small investments in smart devices can make big impacts over time. Consider these additional ways to update and find what is eco-friendly products.
Smart Thermostats with Remote Access
Install the highly-rated Sensi Smart Thermostat and save energy with features like flexible scheduling, remote access, and usage reports. These remote-controlled features ensure your home is always in the right zone.
Smart Light Bulbs
Light your daily routines with Philips Hue Smart Light Bulbs with White and Color Ambiance that feature millions of customizable colors and dynamic light effects.
Highly-Rated Smart Plug
Control the power on almost any device with this Amazon Smart Plug with over 450,000 5-star reviews! Set up routines to automate everyday tasks or control at any time via the Alexa app.
Backup Power Sources
These items can literally provide life-saving power during emergencies and reduce the need to go to the store for disposable batteries. Be sure to have at least one alternative method of powering your devices should you ever need it!
Rechargeable Batteries
It’s important to have power for our devices when and where we need it, but dead batteries can harm the environment. Switch to the convenience of Highly-rated Rechargeable Performance Batteries, which have a shelf life of up to 5 years and 500 recharges.
Portable Battery Chargers
This slim Portable Power Charger Bank is a highly rated (more than 80,000 5-star reviews) choice for fast charging on the go.
Portable Solar Charging Panel
If you live in an environment with a lot of sunlight, a Portable Solar Panel can offer a great off-the-grid charging option for your devices.
For more solar-powered innovations, solar-powered cars are becoming more mainstream, while a solar-powered roof for your home (to take your house completely off-grid).
Fire-Powered Generators
These fire-powered generators first made big news when used in urban areas like NYC during the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. The versatile BioLite Campstove 2+ is a wood-burning camp stove that provides heat for cooking or warmth, PLUS it generates electricity to charge your devices!
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During their life cycle, our products use less natural resources than alternative packaging for disposable use, from energy and materials used over cleaning and repairs to any recycling. And since they have a better effect on transport, including safe alignment and maintaining their structural rigility, that way offers indirect benefits for the environment. Supplies are less thrown, and it takes less energy and resources to replace damaged supplies.
Thanks for the contents!
As most of us have experienced recent shortages at the store, we are being forced to look for alternate solutions. Hopefully some of the new habits & products that are better for the environment will last far into the future.
THis is a great site and what a better time then now to start realizing that we need to conserve our resources. We cannot continuosly go to the store and get things that we will need to replace within a couple of days or a week. We have to be smarter in protecting our environment and making sure that we look after each other. All of our actions affect each other. It all comes down to us being lazy and not wanting to preserve things. It is easier to throw something away then it is to clean something. These products are all amazing in turning this tide around. Thank you for the post.
Hi Eric, You are most welcome – I’m glad to hear that you enjoyed the post!
Hello Alyce, all of a sudden, it feels like my home needs a lot of work to be fine in it. I could see over 5 items that would be really useful for my home and funny enough I never for once thought of them. Take for example the coffee filter and re-useable straw you have mentioned here I use the paper filter at home and aside from the fact that I keep going to the store, it’s slow to use. Great ideas you have here
HI Benson, I’m happy to have helped you learn of some new ideas for your home! Enjoy!!
This is actually a great time saver and money saver. I stock up on some sustainable products as well..not on a toilet paper but I am guilty of buying way to many period stuff and coffee filters. You put so much effort into bringing it all together and making our lives easier. Thank you for that.
Next time I run out of the disposable items I’ll definitely choose these options instead!
Best, Katya
Thanks Katya, I think you will be enjoy the longevity of these products and also be impressed by their peformance!
In this period, focusing more on buying items that can prevent having to spread out of home is what can help to guarantee that one correctly isolate ourselves from the crowd and all. The spread of the covid19 has warranted an urgent need to truly keep everything and everyone in check around us. Thank you so much for sharing such a great post as this here
Hi Emman, Thanks for being responsible and helping to protect everyone by staying home and using products that don’t need to be replaced.
Hi, Alyce.
Thanks for sharing your honest review on sustainable products which can be reused again and again. It is an awesome list and also the need of the time. We would have adopted this strategy along back as mother earth was crying and we all ignored her. An article like yours gives a hope that we are going in the right direction, at least now.
Warm Regards,
Gaurav Gaur
Hi Gaurav, It is definitely an opportune time to try out sustainable products — both because the single-use products are hard to find at stores and because these products simply make good sense! Thanks for considering these sustainable products for your home and family.
Hi there, I found your site to be easy to navigate around. I especially like the menu of topic s being discussed making it easy to navigate to the specific topic of interest. I also found that your article was very informative. I will share your article on social media to some friends as well. Great work!
Thank you Paul for visiting the website and browsing around. Your feedback is very much appreciated and thank you so much for sharing with your friends on social media too!!
wow this is really nice as during this times it more like impossible to get to the store without getting punch in the face and i have been looking for ways to curb that and i think this is the remedy to my problem…Thanks a lot for sharing this awesome article it would help us all.
Yikes, it’s definitely best to avoid getting punched in the face! Stay safe out there!!
Hi Alyce – This is one of the most useful posts on the internet today…second only to corona virus information. I must admit that I have always been a little in the dark about the bidet appliance but this post prompted me seek clarification. All of the suggestions are very useful and I thank you for this information.
Hi Nathaniel, You are most welcome!
It was pretty crazy with the toilet paper. But good thing, my son is a chef and ordered some from where his company gets their toilet paper. The other suggestion you have is great; getting people into using reusable products is something that should have happened a long time ago. Maybe now we all will learn to make use of our resources.
Having cancer, I don’t make any store trips. We had to stock up on my things, but your list is quite good and has given me new ideas on how to cut down on waste.
Hi jagi, I wish you the best with your cancer treatment and a quick recovery to full health. It’s great that you are able to avoid trips to the store in order to protect your own health.
Migrating to more sustainable ways of doing anything is a must. We’ve become predators of our environment living as if we were able to pick some goods and resources from a near and alternative planet earth. In 2020 we were projected to start living on Ecological Deb from July 8 on (That day should be moved forward as the Corona Virus has allowed the planet to get a rest of the plague that inhabits it called humanity).
We’re the one rational animal on earth, and ironically, we’re the one living irrationally. Thanks a lot for putting together this list of items in order to reduce trash generation and all the associated issues.
Great post!
Thanks Juan, I’m glad to hear that you’re helping to be part of the solution by using sustainable eco-friendly products where possible.
It’s a good thing to see that there are some products that know can really use and reuse again because we Lal know the cost of going to the superstore Everytime because we want to buy new stuff. I like the fact that you can give this information on the bathroom and other parts of the house reusable equipments. I would love to get those especially the kitchen ones.
Thanks Riley, I’m glad to hear that you found some sustainable product ideas that would work in your home!
Hello,
This article has come very compatible with the current situation where people in the whole world are struggling by the covid19 disease caused by the coronaviruses.
The content here is really important but since my childhood, I have never ever even heard of the existence of the reusable straws. But, its wonderful that I have learned about here today (thanks!). All the ideas in post are compatible with the situation and I am looking forward to getting some of them over the next couple of days via amazon home delivery!
I am appreciative for what you have provided. Thank you!
Thank you so much for your kind words. I’m glad you were able to find some items that will work well in your home!
I think the biggest challenge we have here is to change our bad habits of using one -time products. Let’s take for example the straw. I think it is a really good idea to have reusable straw but who thinks of going out with this? Maybe women with a big handbag she can have it with her, but me who don’t use a handbag I won’t think of bringing my reusable straw with me in case I buy a beverage.
This is only an example and I know it’s not the case for everything but it’s stuff like that that it might take more time to assimilate before changing our habits.
For the razor you suggested, I’m currently using the same kind for myself and it works great, I love it! I don’t need anymore to buy razors that last just a couple of times. And I have it for many years!
I took note of your post and I will surely come back for a couple of ideas, thank you!
Audrey
Thanks so much Audrey!
This a really good and timely article. The toilet paper struggle is real! Seriously, though, this current crisis has already driven it home to me just how much “stuff” we burn through on a regular basis. Some much one-time, or short-time, usage products regularly used in our home and I’m sure we’re not alone in that. Even trying to find those kinds of products to order online is difficult right now. As your article demonstrates, it would be much better to have sustainable items and, even after this difficult time passes, it will be good to have shifted our consumption habits this way. I will have to add, though, that an even better option than reusable safety razors – grow a beard!
Haha Randy, I suppose you may be right about growing a beard! 🙂
Hey. Thank you for this lovely and useful article. I wasn’t quite aware of all such reusable products. I like how your content is environmentally friendly. The nature seems to be going extinct. And it’s our duty to be conservable as possible. I’ll sure check out some of the stuff that my family and I can use. And while we have to keep this social distancing because of this covid-19 disease, ordering online can sure be the best solution. The paper straw isn’t quite nice, Hahaha! You just have to make sure you drink your liquid very fast. But either than that, I’m loving every single product on your website.
Hi there, I’m not a big fan of paper straws either, but I do like my set of glass straws. I have friends who swear by their reusable straws made of either metal or silicone (they are more portable / less fragile than the glass ones).
Hi, thanks for sharing this amazing article on sustainable products that eliminate trips to the store. I have learnt something tangible and want to share it with others (I know it will be of great help to them and also eliminate trip to the store). It will also help most especially in the time of crisis. Most of us already have kitchen towels ready to use – I just need to make sure they are close at hand so that they get more use.
Hi Sophia, It’s definitely helpful to have a storage space for the products you need in a place that is near where they will be used.