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The Low-Tox Life 🌱: Kitchen Edition🍴🫧
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items Toxic cleaners, plastics, and pans can leach harmful chemicals into your food and air. Switching to low-tox products makes your kitchen healthier, safer, and better for the planet.🌎
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Pots & Pans
Cutting boards
Utensils
Baking & cooking must haves !
Dishes
Food Storage
Pots & Pans
Cast iron and stainless steel are safer, last for decades, and cook better than non-stick, which can scratch, release chemicals, and wear out fast.
Cast iron lasts forever, cooks evenly, adds iron to food, stays non-toxic, and improves flavor over time. I love using this cast iron skillet for things like corn bread
Iron skillet
Stainless steel pans are durable, non-toxic, and heat evenly, so you can sear, sauté, or boil without worrying about chemicals leaching into your food like with non-stick. They last decades, resist scratches, and keep your meals safe and tasty. I lov...
Stainless Steel : Pots & Pans
I love this set because it has everything I need and I know I am not adding toxins to my food.
Stainless Steel Pots & Pans
Cutting boards
Wood cutting boards are safer for you and the planet! plastic boards shed microplastics into your food every time you cut, while wood doesn’t. Wood is also naturally antimicrobial, gentler on knives, and lasts much longer without filling your kitchen...
This set is only $25 right now ! Usually wooden cutting boards are more expensive. I love these personally! I use the small one for vegetables and big one for meat!
2pc Reversible Acacia Wood Cutting Board Set Natural - Figmint
Using plastic cutting boards leave micro plastics in your food. It’s time to make a switch! Such durable boards I love them!
Wood - Cutting Boards
I love this board I can make cheese boards out of and use to cut! It has multiple jobs so it doesn’t take up to much space in my kitchen.
Bamboo : Cutting Boards & Cheese Boards
Bamboo is natural, non-toxic, lightweight yet sturdy, don’t react with food, look beautiful, The perfect set ! I love it! It has 3 different sizes and doesn’t lay on the counter!
Japanese Style Tableware Bamboo Sushi Board Cutting Tray
Utensils
Wooden spoons and stainless steel don’t melt, leach chemicals, or shed microplastics into your food like plastic and rubber can. They’re sturdier, last longer, handle heat better, and keep your meals safer and cleaner.
Plastic & rubber spoons leave chemicals & microplastics in your food. Use wood or stainless steel instead! This set is so aesthetically pleasing. I love it in my home!
Handmade Wood Spoons, Wooden Spatulas, French Rolling Pins + wood ...
. Wooden spoons are naturally non-toxic, sturdy, heat-resistant, and even biodegradable making them a safer, more sustainable choice for you and your kitchen. I love this set!
Wooden Spoons
Plastic and rubber utensils can release microplastics and chemicals into hot food, especially over time. Stainless steel & wood is the safer option! I love this set for when I’m cooking meat or when items stick to pans.
Metal Utensil Set in Kitchen Tools & Gadgets(1000+)
Plastic and rubber utensils can release microplastics and chemicals into hot food, especially over time. Bamboo spoons are naturally non-toxic, sturdy, heat-resistant, and even biodegradable making them a safer, more sustainable choice for you and yo...
Bamboo cooking utensils
I LOVE THIS SET! It has everything you need and it’s stainless steel, plus it’s super cute!!! I love adding color to my kitchen while also keeping toxins out of my food.
COOK WITH COLOR Copper Plated Stainless Steel Utensils
Baking & cooking must haves !
Non tox cooking and baking essentials!
Plastic bowls can absorb odors, stain easily, and may leach chemicals into food especially when mixing hot ingredients. Stainless steel bowls stay clean, don’t react with food, last for decades, and are 100% recyclable, making them the safer and more...
Stainless Steel Mixing Bowls
Plastic bowls can absorb odors, stain easily, and may leach chemicals into food especially when mixing hot ingredients. Glass bowls stay clean, don’t react with food, last for decades, and are 100% recyclable, making them the safer and more durable c...
Glass : Mixing Bowls
I love this website for all my low tox baking essentials!
Rustic White Ceramic Bakeware | Non Toxic Stoneware Casserole Dish
I 🩷 stainless steel! It’s so easy to shape my dough on.
Multi-purpose stainless steel pastry board / cutting board
Stainless steel is safer, sturdier, and more sustainable than plastic in the kitchen. It won’t leach chemicals or microplastics into food, doesn’t absorb stains or odors, tolerates heat and cold without warping, and lasts for decades. Plus, it’s easy...
Mainstays 6" Stainless Steel Fine Mesh Strainer, Red
Stainless steel is safer, sturdier, and more sustainable than plastic in the kitchen. It won’t leach chemicals or microplastics into food, doesn’t absorb stains or odors, tolerates heat and cold without warping, and lasts for decades. This set has la...
Set of 3 Stainless Steel Colander Strainers
Wooden Salad Bowl, Food Safe Toxin Free Acacia Round Wooden Fruit Salad Bowl, Wooden Mixing Bowl, Serving Bowl. They are so cute! And I use them for all kinds of things!
Wooden bowls
Glass last longer than plastic !!! And a lot more aesthetic!
2 Cup Glass Measuring Cup - Hearth & Hand™ with Magnolia
Stainless steel is better than plastic !!! Last longer and no harsh toxins. I have them hanging in my kitchen
4pc Stainless Steel Measuring Cups - Figmint
Dishes
Many ceramic and glass dishes are glazed with materials that contain lead (Pb), which can leach into food and drinks over time especially with acidic or hot foods. Lead is a potent neurotoxin and accumulates in the body, so even small exposures matte...
A lot of painted dish ware contains led and other heavy metals, I love this brand that has a lot of options and is safe ! This company makes the cutest low tox plates and bowls ! I love them!
Dishes
Wooden plates and bowls are natural, non-toxic, lightweight yet sturdy, don’t react with food, look beautiful, and if cared for last for years while being biodegradable and eco-friendly. I love this set! I use it for small meals!
CLEENTABLE 11" Mango Wood Appetizer Plates Set of 4
Wooden plates and bowls are natural, non-toxic and look beautiful in my kitchen!
Eease 2 Wooden Round Dinner Plates for Food and Salad
Food Storage
Reusable freezer bags and glass containers cut down on waste and keep food safer. Disposable plastic bags can leach chemicals and shed microplastics, especially when frozen, heated, or reused. Glass and silicone bags don’t do that, they’re sturdier, ...
Don’t reheat food in plastic ! It melts plastics into your food. Use glass as storage and convince instead! I use these for meal preps!
Glass Food Storage Containers
Stop wasting and reuse !!!♻️ I tend to make meals that can be thrown in the freezer and these are great! I don’t have to keep buying freezer bags.
Stand-Up Snack | 1 Cup Bag 5-Pack
I like to buy meat in bulk and freeze it ! These are great because when I’m done I wash them and then use them again.
Reusable Bag - Gallon Freezer - 8pk - up&up
Washing dishes
Conventional dish soaps often contain harsh surfactants, synthetic fragrances, and preservatives that can leave residues on your dishes and go straight down the drain into the environment. A clean-ingredient dish soap skips the toxic additives, is ge...
Cleans your dishes without the extra chemicals added to them! This brand is viral on tik tok right now so I had to try it and I love it!
Dishwasher Detergent
– non-toxic / better ingredient profile. I love this brand when I’m hand washing items.
Better Life Dishwashing Soap - Unscented - 22 fl oz
Free & Clear version, no synthetic fragrance or dyes. This is a good affordable dish washer soap! It has always done the job for me!
Seventh Generation Clean with Purpose Dishwasher Detergent Pods, Free & Clear, 45 Count
Gentle, foaming, good for sensitive skin / baby items. If you have little ones in your home this a good way to wash their items without worrying about the extra chemicals! I love this brand!
Babyganics Foaming Dish Soap , Fragrance Free, 32oz
More scented / floral, but uses plant-derived ingredients, better profile than many mainstream options. I have always used meyers in my home! It’s trust worthy and affordable.
Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day Liquid Dish Soap Refill, Compassion Flower Scent, 48 Ounce Bottle