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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 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.
To keep our house a healthy place, we need to ditch conventional cleaning products and use natural ones! ❌ Besides many popular brands such as Clorox, Ajax, Lysol, Mr. Clean, Arm & Hammer, Up&Up, and Windex, with products rated F- toxic by ewg.org, there are many “greenwashing” products around.
❌ 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 are still classified as toxic by ewg.org, with products classified as D and F.
❌ 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. Found in BetterLife Brand! Check at the bottom of the page the greenwashing brands.
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.
They are a just few natural and organic brands that are safer, not greenwashing, and transparent. The list of their ingredients meets my strict criteria.
On this page will find only the most natural and safer toilet cleaners on the market, kid-friendly, and pet-friendly. They are all listed below.
To clean the toilet bowl with organic liquid cleaners:
Step 1. Point the nozzle under the rim of the toilet bowl and squeeze gently.
Step 2. Scrub with a toilet brush. Let sit for several minutes.
Step 3. Flush and breathe a sigh of relief (don’t be scared!) – your toilet bowl now looks (and smells) as good as new.
PRO TIP: Use every 2-4 weeks to keep your toilet shining bright like you.
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🌿Butter Me Up Organics toilet tabs are made with all-natural ingredients.
These Organic Toilet Tabs are Antibacterial for an all-organic toilet cleaning.
🌿These are like bath bombs for the loo. Formulated with organic ingredients, such as Organic Tea Tree and Rosemary essential oils to keep things clean and fresh.
Plop one of these in the toilet once a week and let sit for 10 minutes for a constantly clean and fresh bowl.
INGREDIENTS: Non-GMO citric acid*, aluminum-free sodium bicarbonate, tea tree oil*, witch hazel* and rosemary oil* *certified organic
🌿Butter Me Up Organics Organic Toilet Spray is made with 100% certified organic ingredients.
It is an Organic Room Spray to use in the bathroom or any other room that needs to be refreshed.
It provides a protective layer and keeps the odor in the toilet bowl, trash bins, shoe racks, or any other places in the house that may collect odors. Helpful for home, office, and carrying in your purse for public restrooms if needed. Keeps modesty for small homes or shared spaces. For deeper toilet cleaning, they also make all Organic Toilet Tabs Antibacterial for all-organic toilet cleaning.
INGREDIENTS: Witch Hazel*, Odor eating essential Oil blend* *Indicates certified organic
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Made with 98% plant-based ingredients, Molly's Suds Toilet Bowl Cleaner naturally removes stains, mildew and odors where you do your business. No ammonia, chlorine, or synthetic dyes & fragrances - only a sparkling clean toilet and bright citrus aroma to perk up your bathroom break.
INGREDIENTS: Water, Citric Acid, Glycerin, Glycolic Acid, Xanthan Gum, Caprylyl/Myristyl Glucoside, Natural Fragrance**Derived from plant essences & oils. Safer Choice & ISO-16128 compliant. Free of petrochemicals, solvents, dyes and pesticides.
🍃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.
INGREDIENTS: Aluminum-Free Sodium Bicarbonate, Cymbopogon Schoenanthus Oil, Citrus Limon (Lemon) Peel Oil, Mentha Piperita (Peppermint) Oil, Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Oil
🌿MamaSuds Toilet Bombs Cleaning Tabs Cleaning toilets has never been so easy and safe!
These Organic toilet bombs are made with natural ingredients.
🌿Made without palm oil, fragrances, and other cheap chemicals found in conventional or greenwashing laundry or cleaning detergents ✨I have been using her products for years! What I appreciate about this brand is its super short list of ingredients; each ingredient is the most natural on the market!
Use: drop 1 tab into the toilet and let it fizz out. Use your toilet brush to scrub the bowl. Flush. It can also be used to clean the inside of the holding tank.
🍃You can use it as an odor remover for your bathroom or diaper pail, washing machine cleaner, drop a tab into your set it on the lowest load setting, let it fizz out, and wash your washing machine. Drop a tab (or 2) into your garbage disposal and run the water.
INGREDIENTS: sodium bicarbonate, non-GMO citric acid*, water, essential oils of tea tree, organic peppermint, and lemon
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Rustic Strength Organic White Cleaning Vinegar is my number one vinegar recommendation, made from renewable plant-derived ingredients in an eco-friendly glass bottle. This is the only product I use to clean the refrigerator and freezer.
🌿 It is very handy to have around USDA Organic white vinegar, not just to clean the house, laundry, rinse aid in the dishwasher, to self-clean dishwasher or washer machine to remove the build-up, but to remove mold or other contaminants commonly found in humid bathroom spots.
50-grain Vinegar diluted with distilled water, for this reason, is ready to clean.
INGREDIENTS: USDA Certified Organic White Cleaning Vinegar
Rustic Strength Organic White Cleaning Vinegar is my number one vinegar recommendation, made from renewable plant-derived ingredients in an eco-friendly glass bottle.
This organic all-purpose cleaner is the only product I use to clean the refrigerator and freezer.
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🌿Koala Eco Eucalyptus Multi-Purpose Bathroom Cleaner cuts through soap scum, dirt, and grime. This biodegradable and eco-friendly plant-based formula effortlessly cleans, removes bacteria, and deodorizes, without the need for toxic chemicals.
⭐️Imagine a Eucalyptus tree after rain: fresh and cool, let the King of the Eucalyptus species revive your spirits as it cleans and protects your home.
🐨 All their products are natural, powerful, and plant-based. Made in the USA with Australian essential oils. Biodegradable, plant-based, never tested on animals, grey water safe, and septic safe.
Natural & non-toxic
Effective & powerful
Natural disinfectant
No synthetic fragrance
Plant-based
Eco-friendly
INGREDIENTS: Aqua (purified water), alkylpolyglucosides (naturally derived cleansers), eucalyptus radiata (eucalyptus essential oil), alcohol (sugar based biodegradable), sodium xylene suolfonate, polyglyceryl-4 caprate, polyglyceryl-6 caprylate (peg free solubiliser made from renewable materials), limonene (from essential oil), dehydroacetic acid (eco cert cosmetic approved).
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🌿Poofy Organics Toilet Pre Spray allows you to create a fresher environment in your bathroom. Plus it is an organic disinfectant thanks to the organic cane alcohol helps eliminate bacteria.
This Organic Toilet Spray is made with an Organic plant-based formula that tackles odors before they begin, leaving your bathroom smelling great. It can be used as an organic toilet cleaner or as a disinfectant on the go during travel.
USE: Spray a few mists of Toilet Pre-Spray into the toilet bowl before you go. The essential oil blend and essential oils create a protective barrier on the water's surface, trapping unpleasant odors before they escape.
INGREDIENTS: Purified Water, Organic Cane Alcohol, Organic Vegetable Glycerin, Organic Grapefruit Essential Oil, Organic Lime Essential Oil, Organic Citrus Blend Essential Oil, Organic Grapefruit Fragrance Oil, Organic Vanilla Oil.
🌿Meliora is one my fav plastic-free brands! It was born to give us safe laundry and household cleaning products all rigorously packed in super eco-friendly packaging. What is even more impressive is their effort to offer refills that will meet even more their zero waste mission! 👉Here is their all purpose cleaner with the refill! Just add water, shake it and you are ready to go! ✅ The ingredients are approved as within the cleanest on the market! 👏It is so rewarding to cut unnecessary plastic bottles and the water that is carried all over before reaches you contributing to weight and increase of cost for something you can get directly in your home! 💖I support Meliora for being so responsible and for not offering laundry pods or sheets which contribute to plastic pollution!
🌿This Organic All-Purpose Home Cleaner is for cleaning the hard surfaces in your home. Floors, walls, countertops, even the greasy fingerprint smudges on the fridge.
🌱 Here is their difference:
INGREDIENTS: Vegetable Soap [Potassium Cocoate, Sodium Cocoate, Glycerin, Water, Organic Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil
💖A female-founded company created by a mother who needed better cleaning products after she and her daughters developed skin rashes from the toxic chemicals in conventional cleaning products. 🌿Grab Green was born with her DIY formulas, with a focus on innovating formulas, eco-friendly packaging, and ingredients 🌿I especially support their Mindful Tablets combined with her glass bottles since they are the most eco-friendly way to buy and use cleaning products! 💚To ditch single-use plastic and the unnecessary weight of water found in most cleaning products, tablets, and this reusable glass spray bottle are the most eco-friendly alternative 👉While I avoid detergent in pods (their film still contains plastic) these tablets are the best alternative:
All-purpose
Window & Glass cleaner
Toilet Cleaner
🌿These tablets are made of 99% plant and mineral-based ingredients, 100% plastic-free, and are packaged in zero-waste, water-dissolvable paper. Just put their packaging under the sink while washing your hands, and it will disappear!
🍃SCD Probiotics Organic Home Septic Tank Cleaner
Tank ReVive for Home Septic Systems Keeps Septic Tank Clear for up to a Year
It eliminates clogs, tank and Field Odors. A proprietary blend of 11 living probiotics that will keep your septic system clean and odor-free with no pumping for up to a year.
The living probiotics in Tank ReVive for Home Septic Systems digest all of the biomass in your septic tank into water and carbon dioxide.
✅ 100% Bio-Based, Safe for Pipes, Pets, and People.
✅ 100% bio-based, and produced in a facility rated for manufacturing organic food products.
✅ Can also be used in portable toilets and RV ,and Boat waste tanks.
Works on Smelly Drains: pour a cupful down any odorous drainpipe and follow with a few gallons of water.
USE: Just pour a liter down a drain or toilet. Repeat next year.
INGREDIENTS: Filtered Water, Probiotic Lactic Acid Bacteria, Organic Sugarcane Molasses, Rice Bran, Mineral Powder, Sea Salt, Proprietary Organic Herbal Blend (Peppermint, Dill, Ginger Root, Lemon Grass).
💖Another amazing Detergent!!
Kissed with essential oils—Chamomile & Orange Blossom
Free of Synthetic Fragrances, Phthalates, Parabens and Sulfates
Many don’t realize what conventional detergent products contain! Their artificial odor is strong! 🌿 Plant-based, free of Synthetic Fragrances, Phthalates, Parabens, and Sulfates
🌿Rebel Green Spotless Toilet Bowl Cleaner is a plant-based formula made with essential oils—Chamomile & Orange Blossom
INGREDIENTS: Aqua (Water), Capryloyl/Caproyl Methyl Glucamide, Propylene Glycol, And Lauroyl/Myristoyl Methyl Glucamide (Plant Derived Surfactants). Sodium Carbonate, D-Limonene (Organic Orange) CAS #5989-27-5 (Fragrance), Organic Anthemis Nobilis Flower (Chamomile) Oil CAS #8015-92-7 (Fragrance).
🌸 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:
(FSC) natural rubber, latex
100% natural cotton lining
100% renewable resources
FSC-certified ethically sourced latex
FSC-certified Packaging
recycled board processed chlorine-free
Biodegradable non-toxic inks and glue box
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)
The majority of crust removers are chemically based and have strong artificial scents and harsh ingredients.🙊 They are mainly chemicals and even their bright colors look so unnatural.🙈
Check the ingredients!
💖🌎As an environmentalist, for me, it is important that the cleaning products I use are made respecting nature, and animals, and are made with eco-friendly ingredients.
🌿This is the only natural rust remover on the market and it is also USDA Certified Organic.
USDA Certified Organic means that it needs to be at least 95% organic and it has to pass strict environmental rules. Only USDA Certified organic products can display this logo.
Rust Remover
Lime Calcium
INGREDIENTS: Water, Organic Citric Acid, Organic Berry Saponins, Organic Glycerin, Organic Ethyl Alcohol, Organic Eucalyptus Oil.
🌿 MamaSuds has a super short list of ingredients in her organic household cleaners and organic laundry detergents! This natural all-purpose cleaner is made with Castile Soap, organic aloe vera gel juice, non-GMO verified citric acid, and pure essential oils such as organic cinnamon leaf, lemon, and organic eucalyptus. 👉Plus, all her products are palm oil free! Palm oil is responsible for deforestation in Malaysia and Indonesia, orangutan extinction, child labor, and workers' abuse!
🌿MamaSuds All-Purpose Cleaner is tough on the crud but safe enough to wash out a potty mouth.
It works on sinks, counters, doorknobs, stove-tops, garbage lids, and the side of the couch. I also use it to clean my bathroom, shower, and toilet.
INGREDIENTS: water, Castile Soap (potassium olivate), aloe vera gel juice with non-GMO citric acid*, pure essential oils of clove bud, organic cinnamon leaf, lemon, eucalyptus radiata, and rosemary.
🍃Meliora Gentle Home Cleaning Scrub is a great way to add a little kick to your people- and planet-friendly home cleaning. This mixture of baking soda and our All-Purpose Home Cleaner Soap works great on the tub, tiles, and stovetops around your home.
100% biodegradable and septic-safe.
Safe for Use on:
🌿 Here is their difference:
✓MADE-SAFE Certified
100% Plastic-Free
✓ Dye-Free
✓ Preservative-Free
✓ Palm-Oil Free
✓ Cruelty-Free
✓ Synthetic Fragrance-Free
INGREDIENTS: [UNSCENTED]: Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda), Vegetable Soap [Sodium Cocoate, Glycerin, Organic Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Water]
🌿Cleaning Paste provides a pure clean for extra dirty areas that need a thorough scrubbing. Made with natural soap and baking soda, this paste can be used to easily clean sinks, tubs, tiles, and more.
Baking soda and natural soap combine to make a safe and effective scrub that is tough on areas that tend to get extra dirty. Cleaning Paste is ideal to use in the kitchen, bathrooms, and on tile floors. A little bit goes a long way!
🌿 Natural essential oils are added to Lemon-Thyme scent to leave behind a light, fresh smell. However, if you prefer unscented products, we have that option available too! Enjoy the difference a pure clean can make with our Cleaning Paste!
Benefits:
• Septic safe
• Biodegradable
• Plant-based cleaners
INGREDIENTS: Saponified oils of (olive oil*, coconut oil*, castor oil*),Baking soda, Filtered water, Lemon-Thyme scent also contains lemon and linalool essential oil, Eucalyptus-Spearmint scent also contains eucalyptus and spearmint essential oil, Grapefruit scent also contains grapefruit essential oil
🌿The Wholesome Home products are made with plant-based responsible ingredients, hypoallergenic, food-safe, and safe for kids and pets! 🌸 Scented with only organic essential oils such as organic lemongrass essential oil, organic eucalyptus essential oil, organic lavender essential oil, organic rosemary essential oil, and organic tea tree essential oil!
The Wholesome Home Organic Toilet Spray is perfect for any bathroom. Simply spray into the toilet bowl before you go to trap any unwanted odors.
✅ What sets the Wholesome Home All Natural Linen Spray apart is its use of natural ingredients. While specific formulations may vary, they commonly include essential oils, distilled water, and sometimes additional natural extracts. The exact scent will depend on the chosen blend of essential oils, which can range from relaxing lavender and chamomile to invigorating citrus or refreshing eucalyptus. 🌿It smells so natural and without all the controversial ingredients of these other greenwashing brands! Finally, an all-purpose cleaner made with organic ingredients I can trust!
INGREDIENTS: 70% ethanyl alcohol, vegetable glycerin, purified hydrogen oxide, and organic essential oils
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
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?
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