- Small glass spray bottles with aluminum lids: I think you’ll find a trend among these items, and it’s that they all serve multiple purposes. An important part of going green, I’ve found, is being able to reuse and re-purpose items. These pretty little spray bottles are perfect for traveling, keeping in your beauty cabinet, misting plants, and making homemade essential oil mixtures. It can be pretty hard to find zero-waste spray bottles, as most of them are plastic and the few glass bottles usually have plastic caps. These are glass and aluminum, so they’re eco-friendly and actually zero waste!
- Mason jar cozy: If you’re following along over on Insta, you’ve already seen that I swapped single-use cups for the biggest reusable drink ware I could find, which happened to be a regular-mouth 25oz mason jar. I tracked down a drinking lid and already had a straw for it, but I’m realizing now that I use it everyday that a cozy would be extremely handy! The jar sweats and gets slippery, and being 25oz it’s pretty large and hard to grasp. A cozy would also be handy to keep a big ol’ lemon water warm until I can finish it! The main concern is grip and comfort, though. Seriously, if you’re going to use a jar, don’t skip that accessory… I bet you’ll really appreciate it. They come in most jar shapes and sizes, too!
- Plant based brush head: Zero waste, plant based, unique, multi purpose! Yaaas! I’m dreaming of adding this to our kitchen for dishes, cleaning fruit/veg, and cleaning around the kitchen.I also LOVE that it can be used alone or attached to a handle to get hard-to-reach spaces (like the inside of my jar…) If you have time, I highly recommend checking out the other items in this shop. They’re all so dreamy and zero waste!
- Reusable gift wrap: Around the holidays, I researched a lot of zero-waste gift wrap ideas although I wasn’t considering fully giving this eco-friendly thing a try yet. I saw newspaper, hand-painted paper, towels, blankets, etc. but nothing truly traditional and attractive. This gift wrap doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb and can be used for birthdays, Christmas, anything!
- Zero-waste tea bags: I recently learned standard tea bags (which I use allll the time… peppermint tea, though…) are plastic lined. Uuuuugh! Why must everything be so wasteful! The good news is I know of tons of good spots to buy loose leaf tea/herbal tea, and this reusable tea bag is affordable and a perfect addition to an eco-friendly kitchen!
- Unpaper towels: Every kitchen needs unpaper towels. We ditched paper towels about 3 years ago and have just been using hand towels ever since, but our hand towels have taken quite a beating because of it! I’d really like to keep the hand towels for drying our hands and dishes and add these “unpaper” towels to our kitchen for quick clean-ups. This pattern is super cute, but there are TONS to choose from in this shop, including plain white ones! The shop also gives you the option to have snaps on the towels or not, I haven’t used them yet so I can’t recommend one way or another, but if you’ve tried them let us know what you prefer!
Such great ideas! Thank you so much for including my mason jar cozy! 🙂