Household Cleaners
Many of us do not realize how toxic our daily household detergents can be!
They contain chemicals, irritants, and pollutants that affect not only sensitive individuals, pregnant women, the elderly, pets, children, and wildlife, but all of us, too! Yet, they are sold in regular grocery stores as harmless products.
Conventional Household Cleaners
Conventional detergents contain toxic ingredients and chemicals that are cheap to produce, and harsh on us, the planet, and the environment. They are linked with asthma and respiratory damage, skin allergies and irritations, development, and reproductive toxicity, posing cancer, and environmental hazards. You can check your current detergent’s toxicity through EWG.org ratings
To keep our house a healthy place, we need to ditch conventional cleaning products and use natural ones!
❌ Conventional Household cleaner brands: Clorox, Ajax, Lysol, Mr. Clean, Arm & Hammer, Up&Up, and Windex.
They may contain:
❌ Ammonia, phosphate, phthalate, formaldehyde, bleach, dye, gluten, ethoxylated alcohol, 1,4 dioxane, perfume.
Greenwashing Household Cleaners
❌ Greenwashing companies are filling their “natural” products with synthetic petrochemicals, oleochemical emollients, thickeners, detergents, fragrances, and preservatives.
❌ Brands such as Method, Safeway, Green Works (a Clorox company), Babyganics, and Mrs.Meyer’s
❌ Many “natural cleaners” contain controversial ingredients mixed in their almost natural formula such as preservatives, dyes, fragrances, surfactants, bleach, alcohol, quats, hydrogen peroxide, or any other harmful chemicals.
Methylisothiazolinone: preservative skin sensitizer, linked to allergies, lung, neurological, and organ toxicity. Plus it is very toxic to aquatic life. Check at the bottom of the page the greenwashing brands.
👉Many of you already know that I don’t recommend
❌ Branch Basics: contains sodium phytate, responsible for damaging the aquatic environment! Full review here
❌ Force of Nature: contains Hypochlorous Acid HOCl, an acid that forms when chlorine dissolves in water, and Sodium Hydroxide NaOH, aka Caustic soda!! Full review here
Since there is no government regulation of the words: “organic” or “ natural.” We need to buy organic products and to spot them we need to carefully read the labels. That’s why we need to have the right information that allows us to buy a better detergent to protect us, our family, our pets, and the environment. Use your nose and eyes. Read the ingredients list. Avoid fragranced products and colored liquid products.
To keep our house a healthy place, we need to ditch conventional or greenwashing cleaning products and use natural ones!
Organic Household Cleaners
There are a few natural and organic household cleaner brands that are safer, not greenwashing, and transparent. The list of their ingredients meets my strict criteria.
On this page will find only the best natural and safest Organic household Cleaners on the market, kid-friendly, and pet-friendly.
My number one recommendations are:
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🌿The Wholesome Home Made with all-natural and organic, safe plant-based ingredients, they are cleaners and disinfectants. It comes in an eco-friendly glass bottle. The 2 oz concentrate refills will give you 2x 16 oz bottles. Making that the best bathroom cleaner on the market. My 10% off promo code is PRETTYORGANICGIRL
- 🌿 Meliora Cleaning Products: Made-Safe certified ingredients and packed in the most eco-friendly plastic-free packaging!! 10% off code: PRETTYORGANICGIRL
- MamaSuds Cleaning
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The Wholesome Home Kit
💖This is my new favorite cleaning collection!
👏It is the very first brand to make the best organic housecleaning and disinfectant collection in eco-friendly and sustainable glass amber bottles!
🌿Instead of using controversial ingredients such as chlorine, bleach, or vinegar salt solution that could generate chlorine when is electrolyzed! Or Sodium Phytate that pollutes lakes!
✅The wholesome uses of the best organic ingredients on the market: plant-based, food-safe, hand-selected, and professional grade. The smell is naturally so good with a fresh delicate aroma from organic essential oils!
🌿They are also a natural disinfectant and safe as fabric stain removers. Safe on wood, metal, stone, glass, upholstery, and plastic.
✅Safe for all the family!
Plastic-free, plastic capsule-free, electrolyzed water-free that creates hypochlorite (chlorine) as a result of vinegar and salt solution!
👉This is my number one recommendation made with botanical ingredients and packed in eco-friendly glass amber bottles making them my favorite home kit!👏
💖What is even more amazing is that after you get the full-size bottle you can only get the refills! Just add distilled water to the 2oz concentrate will refill the 16oz bottle 2 times!!
The Wholesome Clean Home Kit
🏆This is my number one home all-natural household cleaning products recommendation! 🎉
💖Featuring here 5 essential cleaning products to clean and disinfect the entire home!
🌿 all-purpose cleaner
🌿 bathroom disinfectant
🌿 floor cleaner
🌿 kitchen surface disinfectant
🌿 window & glass cleaner
👉They are made with botanical ingredients and packed in eco-friendly glass amber bottles making them my favorite home kit!👏
💖What is even more amazing is that after you get the full-size bottle you can only get the refills! Just add distilled water to the 2oz concentrate will refill the 16oz bottle 2 times!!
✅Eco-friendly
✅Plant based
✅Hypoallergenic
✅Food safe
✅Bleach free
✅Chlorine derived free
✅Made with organic essential oils!
MamaSuds Organic Household Cleaners
🎉So excited to introduce you to this new approved brand!
🌿It offers a collection of organic home cleaning detergents, made with safer ingredients, better than many greenwashing cleaning brands!👏
What I appreciate about this brand is its super short list of ingredients and each ingredient is the most natural on the market!💖Her collection offers organic body wash, bar soaps, hand soaps, organic laundry 🧺, bathroom, and kitchen cleaners.
👗Including their amazing organic laundry soap for fine linen and delicate, organic dishwasher powder, toilet bombs, and dry balms!🌿They come with natural essential oil of lavender, lemon, or pure unscented versions.
✅ I approve of all of them!
* Biodegradable and safe for septic systems
* Free of any synthetic ingredients
* 100% vegan + not tested on animals ever
* Residue-free*
All-natural, non-toxic, no synthetic ingredients
INGREDIENTS: all-natural and approved
Meliora Organic Cleaning Products
🌿Meliora is one of my favorite cleaning product brands and one of the most responsible on the market that offers an entire eco-friendly line! It is all plastic-free and they also offer Zero-waste packaging-free options and refills 🎉
Here is their organic, unscented, plastic-free, zero-waste, cruelty-free, single-use plastic-free, vegan and palm oil-free 🌴collection:
🌿Laundry powder detergent 🌿Oxygen brightener bleach alternative 🌿Soap stick stain remover 🌿Cleaning scrub powder 🌿Dish soap 🌿All-purpose 🌿Foaming hand soap
I also appreciate they don’t offer laundry pods or laundry sheets as they release micro-plastic to the environment! 🌎
They are made with fewer ingredients all Made-Safe certified and packed in the most eco-friendly plastic-free packaging!! And do you know what? They not only clean and work well, but they also make my laundry very soft!!
🌿 Here is their difference: Their products are made with the simplest ingredients possible and they are one of the most transparent brands around, ALL plastic-free packaging which puts them above the competition. All scents are made from Certified Organic essential oils; no fragrance blends that contain undisclosed ingredients. 1% of every sale goes towards environmental causes
INGREDIENTS: Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Carbonate, Vegetable Soap: Sodium Cocoate, Glycerin, Organic Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Water
Happi Earth USDA Certified Organic Household Cleaners
🎉My new cleaning products!!! They are not only organic, they are USDA Certified organic!!👏
Made by Miessence's sister brand Happi laundry products with Certified Organic food-grade ingredients, packed in sustainable packaging. Water-free!
Happi Earth products are super concentrated and they arrive in Pouch and plant-based pump bottles!
✅ Made with the most natural and sustainable soap source: USDA Certified Organic, wild-harvested, fair-trade soapberry!
Used in Ayurveda medicine for treating eczema & psoriasis, soapberry is hypoallergenic and gentle on the skin!
🌿Happi Pouch wash load: The Laundry Liquid Pouch will last 400 wash loads!! That means you won’t need to buy laundry detergent for 1 year and no waste generated by plastic laundry detergent packaging!!
🌿Happi Multipurpose Cleanser: is great and looks and feels so natural with its rich color! I have been using it everywhere and it is the most natural household cleaner I found!
The pump bottle is made from sugarcane, a renewable source that is 100% recyclable. Just 3 pumps per standard wash load (approx 8kg).
✅ USDA Certified Organic
✅ Food Grade
✅ Wild harvested
✅ 400 washes
✅ Sustainable
INGREDIENTS: Certified Organic food-grade Organic soapberry nut super-concentrate, Organic vegan glycerine, Organic Coconut Vinegar, organic orange & eucalyptus essential oils
Koala Eco Natural Cleaning Set
🌿 My favorite Organic Spring Cleaning Collection!
From the most powerful Australian botanical essential oils Koala Eco is bringing to you the most natural, powerful, and therapeutical cleaning collection directly to you 💦
🍃100% natural, organic, and plant-based, made in the USA, with Australian allergy and vegan certified ingredients.
Capturing the essence of effortless cleaning experiences that leave behind a botanical and Australian garden aroma!
⭐️To get kitchen and house refreshed, sparkling clean, and aromatized with this amazing natural, plant-based, sustainable cleaning set: 💦
🌿Lemon Myrtle & Mandarine cleaner
🌿Lemon Eucalyptus hand wash
🌿Mandarine fruit & veggie cleaner
🌿Mandarine & Peppermint floor cleaner
🌿Lemon Myrtle & Mandarine dish soap
🐨 Safe, powerful, plant-based. Made in the USA with Australian essential oils. Kind to your family and the environment. Everything is: biodegradable, plant-based, never tested on animals, grey water safe, and septic safe.
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Natural
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Effective & powerful
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Refreshing scent
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Eco-friendly
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100% POST-CONSUMER RECYCLED BOTTLE
Molly's Suds Sink Scrub
🍃Molly's Suds Sink Scrub gently scrubs away tough dried food and grease
Helps buff out scratches on kitchen and bathroom surfaces
Trade stinky sink smells for a beautiful, nose-pleasing aroma
Helps gently remove stains from natural stone, ceramic, and porcelain
Made from naturally derived ingredients that are safe for your skin, your sink, and the environment
🌿Sink SCRUB™ comes in three beautiful, aromatic blends.
- Beach: a warm, summery fragrance of coconut and salty breeze scents
- Lavender: a serene, floral scent of lavender fields in the French countryside
- Citrus: a cheering clean of sweet lemon and herbal aroma
INGREDIENTS: Aluminum-Free Sodium Bicarbonate, Cymbopogon Schoenanthus Oil, Citrus Limon (Lemon) Peel Oil, Mentha Piperita (Peppermint) Oil, Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Oil
If You Care Natural Household Gloves
🌸 These are my favorite and the most eco-friendly, sustainable Household gloves on the market. I see these.
If You Care Household Gloves are made from FSC Certified latex, i.e. the natural rubber is sourced from a responsibly managed plantation. Furthermore, the rubber tappers, who cut the bark to get the raw material flowing, have received a fair trade premium, and it is their decision how to spend their extra income.
Unlike other brands, If You Care Household Gloves are reusable, made from 100% latex, and contain no fillers so they are super strong and perfect for a variety of uses like dishwashing, house and bathroom cleaning, and gardening.
🌸 They are reusable, made with soft natural latex rubber and delicate cotton lining.
Recommended if you are dealing with eczema, psoriasis, dermatitis, or dry skin.
These could be caused by toxic gloves.
These natural gloves are:
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(FSC) natural rubber, latex
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100% natural cotton lining
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100% renewable resources
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FSC-certified ethically sourced latex
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FSC-certified Packaging
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recycled board processed chlorine-free
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Biodegradable non-toxic inks and glue box
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Fair Trade
By using them we are reducing the many gloves that end up in landfills to stay! You can compost your Household Gloves by cutting them into small pieces with scissors.
MATERIAL: FSC Certified latex (the natural rubber)
Koala Eco Apothecary Glass Bottle
🌿Koala Eco Apothecary Glass Bottle is a beautiful refillable solution for your favorite organic cleaning detergents. Sold empty with a spray trigger, the recycled glass bottles are ready to receive whatever household cleaner needs to be reached.
Including for organic vinegar.
You can fill and re-fill the glass bottle with Organic Kitchen cleaners, Organic bathroom cleaners, Organic window cleaners, Organic all-purpose cleaners, or any Organic household cleaners.
An eco-friendly and elegant solution for your refills in a handy and visible way, beside the sink or on a worktop. The green glass filters light, setting a meditative mood. Imagine it catching the daylight on your kitchen windowsill, or maybe reflecting bathroom candlelight as you take a bedtime shower and wind down at the end of the day.
MATERIAL: Packaged in recyclable 100% post-consumer recycled bottles.
Not Recommended
❌ Not recommended
I don't recommend BRANCH BASICS full review here
Branch Basics The Concentrate, I don't recommend this because it has a controversial ingredient!
INGREDIENTS: Purified Water, Decyl Glucoside, Chamomile Extract, Coco-Glucoside, Sodium Citrate, Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Phytate
Sodium Phytate in-household cleaners according to EWG.org Phosphates in detergent cause lake pollution and eutrophication.
Why do we need to pay $50 for a cheaply made detergent containing sodium phytate responsible for polluting our lakes??!
Sure it is better than Clorox, but why spend all that money on something that is just ok and also associated with general ecotoxicity concerns by ewg.org?
I wish bloggers out there would make more responsible recommendations.
Conclusion:
❌ GREENWASHING, POLLUTING, GREAT MARKETING
❌ Not recommended
I don't recommend FORCE OF NATURE full review here
Force of Nature I don't recommend this because it has a controversial ingredient!
This is a disinfectant, not a household cleaner since its formulation generates a form of chlorine!!
Even though it is much less than in a conventional bleach it is still chlorine!
In fact, the company shttps://amzn.to/3lp90j1tates: "Those individually allergic to Chlorine should avoid direct contact as it may cause irritation with symptoms of redness, itching, and swelling."
Even you are not allergic to it, you are still breathing and touching chlorine. I find chlorine to be also not eco-friendly!
Their chlorine is in their Hypochlorous acid (HOCI) and Sodium Hydroxide (aka Caustic soda) that is formed during the electrolysis of vinegar, salt, and water.
Chlorine and caustic soda sound eco-friendly to you?
❌ GREENWASHING, POLLUTING, GREAT MARKETING
❌ Not recommended
I don't recommend Blueland. For a full review check here.
Here you can see their three cleaning products. The tables have all these unnatural colors boosted by synthetic colorants.
INGREDIENTS:
MULTI-PURPOSE CLEANER: made with Synthetic sodium Benzoate, synthetic potassium sorbate
The fragrance is a mix of natural and synthetic blends, which means a toxic blend, and synthetic yellow colorant.
synthetic Sodium Benzoate
BATHROOM CLEANER: Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, irritant and polluting, synthetic potassium sorbate, again toxic fragrance and synthetic pink colorant.
WINDOW: Synthetic sodium Benzoate, synthetic potassium sorbate, and blue colorant