You don't have to completely replace your shower heads and toilets to have a more ecof-friendly bathroom! Try some of these simple alternatives to make your bathroom just a little bit greener!
1) Reusable Cotton Face Scrubbies
Regular disposable cotton pads unfortunately do not biodegrade due to bleaching during the mixing process used to produce them. That's why we suggest a switch to reusable cotton face scrubbies. They are made from natural fibres and can easily be cleaned in your washing machine or by hand. There are lots of handmade options for this product on etsy: https://www.etsy.com/ca/market/cotton_face_scrubbie
2) Bamboo Toothbrush
Every year, Canadians alone throw away 111 million toothbrushes. They are not biodegradable and end up in landfills. Next time you need to replace your toothbrush, try replacing it with a bamboo toothbrush, which is 100% compostable! Order from https://www.bambrushes.com/ and receive your vegan-friendly, cruelty free, BPA free, non-toxic paint toothbrush in unbleached paper sleeve.
3) Shampoo, Conditioner, and Soap Bars
You don't need to buy shampoo, conditioner, or body wash that comes in a plastic bottle. You can try using all of these products in bar form. No more plastic, only completely compostable packaging. Also, these soap bars don't have the harmful chemicals that many of the standard soaps carry. Go check out these awesome products at https://unwrappedlife.com/account
4) Sustainable Toilet Paper Toilet paper production is a surprisingly wasteful and harmful product to produce. Old growth forests are cut down, a lot of water is used and wasted to clean the pulp, and then more energy is used to manufacture and transport the product. Instead of purchasing regular toilet paper from your local store, try ordering from https://whogivesacrap.org. They use environmentally friendly material AND 50% of the profits go to help building toilets for those in need.
5) Shower instead of Bathe
Did you know that a bath consumes more than 3 times the water and 4 times the energy than a shower? Take a shower instead of a bath - or better yet a short shower!
6) Biodegradable Dental Floss
Normal dental floss contains nylon, which is unfortunately a non-biodegradable product. Also, because dental floss is such a small product, it often gets swept up in the disposal process and ends up in the ocean. That is why we suggest a switch to biodegradable dental floss, so that you can compost this product and prevent it from polluting the environment further. Try silk dental floss from https://www.publicgoods.com/products/dental-floss?_pos=1&_sid=6925a973d&_ss=r.
7) Reusable Menstrual Cup
One menstrual cup can divert approximately 2400 pads and tampons from the landfill.
With proper care, a menstrual cup can last for 10 years! This means that each user can save the environment a whole truckload of waste every 10 years, just by switching to a cup. Another pro to using menstrual cups, is that it saves the which user money! Go check out https://www.organicup.com/ to further explore this option.
8) Bathroom Compost
This suggestion may seem a little bit unorthodox, but a lot of the waste coming from your bathroom such as toilet paper, some paper bathroom product packaging (and hopefully now your dental floss and toothbrush) can actually be composted instead of sent to a landfill with the rest of your garbage. If you put a small compost bin in your bathroom, you will be surprised by how much waste you are actually diverting from the landfill!