Protect Your Family's Health - 3 Things to Know About Plastic Free Cleaning Products

protect your family's health with plastic-free products

While we want to ensure that our health and that of our family members is good and in proper shape, we may be unaware that the cleaning products we use can cause health isses through the use of toxic ingredients. Excessive use of harsh chemicals in cleaning products has always been a cause of concern for users' health. If that was not bad enough, their products often come packaged in plastic bottles which, if not recycled correctly, can sit in landfill for decades, or worse, our oceans. Fortunately, now consumers have access to the zero waste and plastic-free cleaning products in the UK which contain far less of these harsh chemicals, are safer to use, and come completely plastic free.

 

No More Polluting Plastics

As we know, plastics can take over 500 years to break down, and this chemically and industrially manufactured material is the most common pollutant of our world. Fortunately, the new zero waste and plastic-free cleaning products are entirely free of plastic and are offered online by a plastic-free shop in the UK. Small, dissolvable cleaning sachets are one of the plastic-free cleaning products in the UK which are packaged plastic-free, instead choosing to use a plant-derived material that dissolves in water.

 

Comprehensive Range Of Plastic Free Cleaning Products

These cleaning sachets offers an entire cleaning solution for the whole house, and made in a highly ethical and environmentally friendly way, with a consideration to their users health. The antibacterial and antifungal cleaners include oven cleaners, glass and mirror cleaners, floor cleaners (with scents including sandalwood), bathroom surface cleaners, and kitchen surface cleaners. The cardboard box which customers receive all these different eco-friendly products is also 100% compostable and recyclable too.

Lastly, some plastic packaging cleaning brands use is not easily recyclable, as well as coming in at quite a high price. The use of these environmentally friendly sachets and Amber bottles ensures that your ethical and environment-friendly move is economical for you as well. The onus is on you to make the simple swap to plastic free cleaning for your home, for the future of our planet and generations to comes.

Friendly Turtle   |   Posted on August 05 2019

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It is a good strong wide toothed comb. Should have bought 2!

Vicki Leng
Great for Agrihomeopathy

These amber-coloured spray bottles are perfect for preparing and spraying homeopathic remedies on your organic and homeopathically treated garden. I have quite a few of them because each remedy needs a separate bottle, but the same remedies do tend to come up year after year, e.g. to deal with aphids, spider mites, cabbage butterflies and on it goes.

Helen Kimball-Brooke
Lovely

I already had some of these tea towels and love them so treated myself to some more so I could ditch the horrible ones I have accumulated. The quality is great- they come with a useful hanging hook, they wash really well and are soft and absorbent- what else do you need? Well worth the money. Delivery was quick.

Jill Rowe
Beautiful comb

Beautiful comb, nice and smooth, goes well through my thick hair and my mother’s fine curly hair.

Anstice
Beautiful brush

Good quality, nice to know it is so eco friendly, feels good on the scalp and effective at getting through my thick hair. Good price, well packaged and good delivery time. Very pleased with my purchase, thank you

Anstice
Just the job

Just the job

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Great trigger spray

I bought these to replace some bought from elsewhere which had failed within a short time of using. I use these daily, they are excellent and I'll definitely be buying more. Would highly recommend

Jenny
Good quality bottles

Nice bottle with good pump spray that doesn't drip down sides of bottle.

Anonymous
Useful and subtle.

These are excellent - not damaging , nice colours, do the job.
Not much more to say really.

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Deodorant tin

I was very impressed by the very swift arrival of my package, arrived almost the next day.
It smells delicious

CustomerJune Williams
Given as present

It was well received as the recipient was really happy to receive them.

Jan

Great product

Sean Wright
Great product + great service

Hair clay 100% nautural is a gamechanger.
Quick delivery, right price. Highly reccomended. Will buy again.

Stefano Crocco
The wood looks healthy again

An excellent, and wholesome, solution to my sad looking wooden bowl.
It was not on my to do list, until I spotted the beeswax option.
A traditional, effective, and natural option
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When you daughter wants your brush, but settles for an exact replica, it must be good! Beautiful wood, light and massively effective. We both have thick hair and this does the job so effectively… great massage effect on the scalp! It is easy to remove stray hairs from the brush and I feel really good that it’s eco and ethical and I highly recommend. It came in minimum packaging, which was just right…a safe, eco padded envelope, and it arrived very quickly. Looks gorgeous on my dressing table and looks as if it cost twice the price that it did.

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