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Best Eco Friendly Switches for your Daily Routine 🌎♻️💕
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items I love making conscious decisions that have a positive effect on the world. No effort is too small! Here are some simple eco friendly switches that can benefit both you and the environment. It’s a win win!
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Morning Routine ☀️
Switches for Women ❤️
Kitchen Switches 🍽️
Daily Activities and Hobbies 🚗
Morning Routine ☀️
These are switches you can make in your morning self care routine.
If you use cotton rounds in your routine, maybe you can consider trying reusable cotton rounds.
These are great for using in your skincare routine or removing makeup. And are easily cleaned either by hand or tossing into the washing machine!
Reusable Bamboo or Cotton Cleansing Pads
This is a great alternative to the toothpaste that comes in plastic tubes. According to the company, this product is completely free of plastics and BPAs, and is even safe for children.
It’s fluoride free, instead they choose to use 5% of nano-hydr...
NOBS Toothpaste
Bite toothpaste tablets are another great option for toothpaste tablets. They have both fluoride free options and fluoride options depending on your preference. They also have many different flavors!
Bite Toothpaste Tablets
Instead of using plastic toothbrushes, try using a natural bamboo toothbrush. A bamboo toothbrush handle is biodegradable unlike plastic ones. Bamboo itself is a renewable resource since it grows fast and requires minimal water which makes it a very ...
Switch your plastic toothbrush for a bamboo one
Switches for Women ❤️
Great switches for women to manage their monthly cycle and other issues specific to women.
I highly recommend menstrual cups to all women - especially women who use tampons and pads.
These menstrual cups can be a bit intimidating for some, but they’re actually very easy to use and are highly beneficial to not only the environment, but you...
Saalt Menstrual Cup - Himalayan Pink - Small
Menstrual discs are very similar to menstrual cups, and it’s a great alternative to disposable menstrual products. Make sure they’re made of medical grade silicon. If they are, they are reusable for up to about 10 years, are BPA and Latex free, and g...
Consider a Menstrual Disc
Many women are switching to cloth pads because we are tired of wearing pads that feel like diapers. Cloth pads are much more soft and comfortable, easy to clean, and many say they often hold more than disposables! They have different cloth liners for...
Consider using reusable pads over disposable
Kitchen Switches 🍽️
Switches for the kitchen!
Many of us love to eat out, but not all restaurants use stainless steel or reusable utensils. Instead, they commonly use disposable or plastic utensils. Carrying reusable utensils reduces your chances of needing disposable ones.
Carry Reusable Utensils
If you love to cook, silicon baking mats are a great switch. This is not only great for the environment, but for your pocket also! A silicon baking mat replaces disposable parchment paper. It’s easy to clean and reuse again and again!
Invest in a Silicone Baking Mat
Plastic straws are one of the biggest sources of pollution in the world, so any effort to reduce our use of plastic straws is a good one. 💕
These glass straws are perfect for any drink, and they come with small sponges to clean them with.
Unique Bargains Reusable Smooth Glass Straws with Two Cleaning Brushes 4 Pcs 9.84" x 0.32"
Plastic wrap is a very common resource we use in the kitchen to make sure our food stays fresh longer. But sadly, this is typically single use, making it a quick and common way to contribute to pollution. Instead, use reusable bees wax wrap!
Switch out Plastic Wrap for Reusable Bees Wax Wrap
If you love drinking tea, you may mostly buy it in single use tea bags. I absolutely love tea, and instead of reusable tea bags, I use a stainless steel tea diffuser. And instead of buying tea in tea bags, I buy loose leaf tea.
I highly recommend t...
Tea Infuser: Reusable Stainless Steel for Loose Leaf Herbal Tea
When you’re going to the grocery store, you’re probably familiar with the thin plastic bags we use to pack our produce.
When you go, try to remember to bring reusable produce bags instead of using the single use plastic ones in the store.
You don...
Reusable Produce Bags
Daily Activities and Hobbies 🚗
Switches for your day to day activities and hobbies
A lot of places have banned plastic bags, and for good reason! If you’re going shopping, try to bring reusable bag with you instead of depending on the store to give you one.
If you don’t want to buy a bag, I would highly recommend reusing a plasti...
Reusable Shopping Bag
If you love reading, you may want to think about which medium you choose to read books, and see if you’d prefer reading digital copies over hard copies. Digital copies eliminate the use of shipping, ink and paper which reduces the environmental impac...
Consider reading digital copies over reading hard copies
This may not apply to everyone, but see if you have a zero waste store near you where you can get all of your essentials. These stores allow you to bring your own containers and refill them so you’re only paying for the contents instead of a name bra...
Consider a Zero Waste Store Near You!