Sustainable Sampler

All-Purpose Cleaner Tablet

Say goodbye to bulky, single-use plastic spray bottles of all-purpose cleaner. These concentrated cleaning tablets reduce packaging and waste!

Use: Drop 1 tablet into a spray bottle, add 16 oz of warm water, close bottle, and shake gently for tablet to dissolve. Now you’re ready to tackle any cleaning task.*
*Always test any stained/finished surface in an inconspicuous spot.
Impact: Each refill tablet eliminates one single-use plastic bottle and spray nozzle.
Ingredients/Materials: Vegetable Soap [Potassium Cocoate, Sodium Cocoate, Glycerin, Water, Organic Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil]. These tablets are fragrance-free and dye-free.
End of Life: This product is 100% biodegradable and plastic-free.
Brand: Meliora Cleaning Products is a Women-Owned, Certified B Corporation and a 1% for the Planet Member. Their products are MADE SAFE Certified, and Certified Cruelty-Free.

Lavender Laundry Powder

This Laundry Powder is your go-to plastic-free, planet-friendly laundry option. Free of synthetic fragrances, dyes, preservatives, and brighteners.

Use: Add laundry powder directly to washer with clothes. For HE Washers, use 1/2 tablespoon. For Standard Washers, use 1 tablespoon.
Impact: Each refill eliminates plastic laundry jugs that cannot be recycled due to the chemicals found in most detergents. The natural ingredients also keep chemicals out of our water supply and oceans.
Ingredients/Materials: Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Carbonate, Vegetable Soap [Sodium Cocoate, Glycerin, Organic Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Water]
End of Life: This product is 100% biodegradable. The reclaimed glass packaging can be returned to SHIFT, used again for bulk refills, or infinitely recycled in a responsible manner.
Brand: Meliora Cle aning Products is a Women-Owned, Certified B Corporation and a 1% for the Planet Member. Their products are MADE SAFE Certified, and Certified Cruelty-Free.

Bamboo Toothbrush

Eco-responsible tooth care made accessible!

Use: The only thing you need to do differently when using a bamboo toothbrush is to let it dry after using it.
Impact: Every year, over 1 billion plastic toothbrushes are landfilled in the USA. Switching to a Bamboo Toothbrush is a small shift with a big impact on the planet!
Ingredients/Materials: Moso bamboo handle, Nylon #6 bristles.
End of Life: This bamboo toothbrush is a mixed material product, so separate at end of life. The bamboo handle is 100% compostable. Remove the bristles with pliers and responsibly dispose of through TerraCycle or Rabbit Recycling. The recycled paper box is 100% compostable.
Brand: No Tox Life is a family-run business born from the desire to provide effective, vegan body and home care to help people live a cleaner, greener lifestyle.

Lavender Castile Soap

Face, body, hair, dishes, laundry, mopping, pets—clean your house and body with no synthetic preservatives, detergents or foaming agents!

Use: View this cheat sheet for proper dilution.
Impact: Depending on how you use castile soap, you can divert countless plastic bottles from the landfill and even more toxic chemicals from the ocean.
Ingredients/Materials: Water, Organic Coconut Oil, Potassium Hydroxide, Organic Palm Kernel Oil, Organic Olive Oil, Lavandin Extract, Organic Hemp Oil, Organic Jojoba Oil, Lavender Extract, Citric Acid, Tocopherol. Made with organic and certified fair trade ingredients.
End of Life: This castile soap is 100% backyard compostable. The reclaimed glass packaging can be returned to SHIFT, used again for bulk refills, or infinitely recycled in a responsible manner.
Brand: Dr. Bronner’s is a family business committed to making socially and environmentally responsible products of the highest quality, while dedicating our profits to help make a better world.

Reusable Cotton Rounds

Ditch those plastic-wrapped, single-use “cotton” rounds for a cleaner, more impactful beauty routine.

Use: Perfect for makeup remover and toner application. Machine wash with like colors, tumble dry low.
Impact: If you typically use one cotton round in the morning and one at night, switching to a sustainable alternative keeps 730 pads out of the landfill every year.
Ingredients/Materials: 100% upcycled cotton fabric, synthetic thread.
End of Life: These cotton rounds are a mixed material product. Separate and clean for end of life. The cloth is 100% backyard compostable. The thread is recyclable in textile recycling or through TerraCycle and Retrievr. Learn more about SHIFT’s quarterly fabric scrap collection by joining our community Facebook group.
Brand: Tiny Waste is a lifestyle blog following one woman’s journey to low-waste living.

Mint Tooth Tabs with Fluoride

Meet your plastic-free oral care goals with toothpaste tablets. No unnecessary, not-so-good-for you ingredients, and no plastic tube to send to the landfill!

Use: Crunch one tablet up between your teeth (a few bites should do) to create a paste. Grab your wet toothbrush and brush as usual.
Impact: In America alone, consumers use more than 400 million tubes of toothpaste annually. Most end up in landfills because the multi-material packaging isn’t generally accepted at recycling centers.
Ingredients/Materials: Microcrystalline cellulose, Sodium bicarbonate, Silica, sodium lauroyl glutamate, Magnesium stearate, mentha arvensis leaf oil, menthol, Xanthan gum, Stevia, Citric acid, sodium flouride. Gluten-free with zero preservatives, SLS, sodium saccharin, artificial colors, aluminum or nanoparticles.
End of Life: This product is 100% plastic-free. The reclaimed glass packaging can be returned to SHIFT, used again for bulk refills, or infinitely recycled in a responsible manner.
Brand: Unpaste is a vegan, cruelty-free company that uses waterless, carbon-neutral manufacturing to create their toothpaste tablets.

Bamboo Dish Brush

The CASA AGAVE™ brushes are an easy replacement for your plastic dishwashing, pot scrubbing and vegetable brushes in the kitchen and home.

Use: Each brush can be used for 1-3 months or longer depending on frequency of usage and proper storage. Make sure to not submerge or soak the wooden parts in water. Hang to dry or place in a dry spot after using it.
Impact: In the US alone, approximately 400 million sponges are tossed away every year.
Ingredients/Materials: Moso Bamboo, Agave or Palmyra Fiber Bristles.
End of Life: This brush is 100% compostable.
Brand: No Tox Life is a family-run business born from the desire to provide effective, vegan body and home care to help people live a cleaner, greener lifestyle. CASA AGAVE™ is a trademark of Earth and Daughter, LLC.

Lavender Earl Grey Lip Butter

An herbal and citrus essential oil blend, with a hint of sweet, packaged in a zero-waste paperboard tube.

Use: This product is most fresh when used within 18 months of purchase. It is best stored in a cool place to keep it fresher longer. As with any natural product, do not leave it in your car or directly in the hot sun to melt in the heat.
Impact: Almost 200 million plastic lip balm tubes head to landfill every year. Be part of the solution by switching to our waste-conscious paperboard tube full of calming vegan ingredients.
Ingredients/Materials: Wildcrafted Candelilla Wax (plant wax), Organic Cocoa Butter, Organic Coconut Oil, Sweet Almond Oil, Avocado Oil, Lavender Essential Oil, Bergamot Essential Oil, Organic Stevia Leaf.
End of Life: The paperboard tube and black bamboo tape are 100% compostable.
Brand: No Tox Life is a family-run business born from the desire to provide effective, vegan body and home care to help people live a cleaner, greener lifestyle.

Nordic Dish Cloth

This biodegradable WASHCLOUD™ cloth cleans larger surfaces and messy spills without stinking up your trash can!

Use: Works on dishes, sinks, counters, oven tops, and anywhere else you would use a paper towel or sponge. After washing with it, rinse it clean and squeeze dry, then lay to dry on a towel rack or on the edge of your counter so it can dry fully between uses. Sanitize in the washing machine or dishwasher up to 200 times.
Impact: A single dish cloth replaces 10+ rolls of disposable paper towels.
Ingredients/Materials: Water-Based Inks , Cellulose/Wood Pulp Cotton.
End of Life: The renewable and biodegradable material can be composted at home or buried in the garden.
Brand: No Tox Life is a family-run business born from the desire to provide effective, vegan body and home care to help people live a cleaner, greener lifestyle. WASHCLOUD™

100% Recycled Toilet Paper

Immediately turn your bathroom into that plastic-free, eco-friendly paradise you’ve been longing for . The soft, 3 ply sheets make for a super comfy wipe.

Use: You know what to do.
Impact: This toilet paper saves our virgin forests. If every US household used just one roll of 100% post-consumer recycled toilet paper a year, it would save 423,900 trees.
Ingredients/Materials: 100% Recycled Fibers.
End of Life: Paper wrapper and cardboard tube are 100% compostable.
Brand: Who Gives a Crap is a Certified-B Corporation that donates 50% of their profits to help build toilets and improve sanitation in the developing world.

Upcycled Fabric Wrapping

Give a gift within a gift this holiday season!

Use: Practice the art of fabric wrapping when gift-giving.
Impact: Each year Americans alone use 4.6 million pounds of wrapping paper. Half of that number ends up in a landfill.
Ingredients/Materials: 100% Cotton Fabric, Synthetic Thread.
End of Life: This wrap is a mixed material product. Separate and clean for end of life. The cloth is 100% backyard compostable. The thread is recylcable in textile recycling or through TerraCycle and Retrievr. Learn more about SHIFT’s quarterly fabric scrap collection by joining our community Facebook group.
Brand: Tiny Waste is a lifestyle blog following one woman’s journey to low-waste living.

PLEASE NOTE: The fabric and basket in this auction item are upcycled and can be reused in the home or returned to SHIFT. Please do not send them to the landfill. We will happily take them back! The kraft paper is post-consumer recycled paper and can be composted. We also reused biodegradable corn starch packing peanuts for structure, which can be dissolved in water, composted, or used again.