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Best Eco-Friendly Products for Your Home and Family

Do better by the environment with these sustainable and recyclable household products

Published on: April 12, 2024

Best Eco-Friendly Products for Your Home and Family

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Move toward a more eco-friendly home one flush at a time. Photo credit: Amazon

Reduce the carbon footprint of your bathroom and laundry room

Instead of contributing to deforestation with traditional toilet paper, lean in to better alternatives such as recycled or bamboo toilet paper. If you’re due to replace your toilet cleaning brush but haven’t, understandably, given much thought to what you’ll choose, think natural. This beechwood-handled, coconut-fiber scrubber packaged in a corn starch bag will cut back on your carbon guilt. 

Finding an eco-friendly toilet cleaner is tough. Bleach-free liquid options abound but come packaged in plastic. Seventh Generation’s formula — free of bleach, artificial fragrances and dyes — comes in a 100 percent recycled bottle. Or, you can sprinkle baking soda and vinegar in your toilet bowl and, with a little elbow grease, scrub away the gross stuff.

The newest trend in less-wasteful laundry is ditching big detergent jugs for eco-friendly sheets. If you’re a fabric softener fan, consider popular wool dryer balls, purported to reduce wrinkling and cut drying time by up to 25 percent.

Next up: recycled fashion

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