Things are getting sustainably steamy with eco-friendly shower curtains and liners.

Besides, many of our best thoughts come in the shower.

But as the off-gassing from our plastic shower curtains overcame the refreshing smell of our coconut zero waste shampoo, we had to wonder: what is the most eco-friendly shower curtain?

The best is a natural shower curtain that doesn’t release chemicals and can go back to the earth after many years of use. Which is why we’ve prioritized brands on this list that use environmentally friendly materials, no or low-impact chemicals, and consider the health and safety of their products.

We’ll also be introducing our new Brand Rating System as we update this list, which will assess multiple eco-attributes, including resource efficiency and product longevity. You can read more about our approach here.

Now, if you’ve also been wondering, “What can I use instead of a plastic shower curtain?”, here are a few of our favorite bathing buddies.

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Our Favorite Sustainable Shower Curtains For Hot Showers & A Cool Planet

Parachute is saving hygiene routines everywhere with their non-plastic shower curtain materials: 100% European flax linen and GOTS-certified organic cotton.

For a clean body and a clean conscience, freshen up with Coyuchi. Not only is their washable shower curtain/ liner eco-friendly, but it’s also fair trade.

Index: Eco Shower Curtains & Liners

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  2. Boll & Branch Jump to brand
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  5. Dusty Linen Jump to brand
  6. Bean Products Jump to brand
  7. The Citizenry Jump to brand
  8. Pottery Barn Jump to brand

Parachute

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About Parachute

Price Range: $24–$119

Women-founded brand Parachute offers a selection of quality, comfortable home goods.

Everything—including their blankets and organic robes to don post-shower—is ethically made by gifted artisans.

Making sustainable showering as easy as 1-2-3, Parachute also offers a range of natural shower curtains and hangers.

Choose between a variety of designs and textures—from a cotton waffle shower curtain to the fun yet understated Organic Pom Pom organic cotton shower curtains. Its minimalist black and white coloring is perfect for adding a bit of clean elegance to the bathroom.

Parachute’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices

Materials:

European flax is a material we can get behind which is why Parachute’s 100% linen shower curtain is one of the best.

Or, if your showers tend to run long, you can feel good about those made using water-saving GOTS-certified organic cotton.

All OEKO-TEX-certified, their eco-friendly shower curtains are as clean as you are post-scrub (read: free of harmful chemicals and synthetics).

Supply chain & labor practices:

Parachute’s linen shower curtains are made in a family-owned factory in Portugal that honors passed-down traditions.

While that is their main manufacturing partner, the natural cotton shower curtains are made via a smaller partner in Turkey.

Carbon commitments & green practices:

Parachute is Climate Neutral-certified (including shipping and returns) and recently launched its first circular program, a Recycled Down Pillow crafted from returned Parachute down pillows and a 70% recycled cotton shell.

Inclusivity:

More than half of Parachute’s influencer budget is dedicated to BIPOC individuals.

Community & charitable giving:

Parachute’s Home for Dreams Initiative provides mentorship, grant money, and finance and marketing education to Black entrepreneurs.

They also donate malaria-prevention nets to people in need through their partnership with the United Nations’ Nothing but Nets campaign.

Boll & Branch

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About Boll & Branch

Price Range: $109

Before or after you cozy up with their blankets and eco-friendly pillows, let Boll & Branch leave you with a clean body and conscience.

Run by a wife-husband duo, this US brand feels proud of its home textile range, which includes a small but sustainable range of natural shower curtains with a luxurious waffle texture.

Boll & Branch’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices

Materials:

Boll & Branch uses 100% cotton that’s both OEKO-TEX and GOTS-certified organic.

Supply chain & labor practices:

Boll & Branch’s bath products—including its shower curtains—are made in fair trade environments in India, Turkey, and Pakistan.

Carbon commitments & green practices:

In addition to sustainable packaging, Boll & Branch saves emissions by transporting via boat.

They avoid toxic residues and harmful chemicals across their entire product line.

Coyuchi

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About Coyuchi

Price Range: $128–$198

Coyuchi is a brand we aren’t so coy about loving.

Hailing from California, this bedding brand is passionate about filling homes around the globe with natural, sustainable materials—which is what they use for robes, sleepwear, organic comforters, and an all-in-one shower curtain/ liner.

Transforming any bathroom into a “restorative bathing experience” their trio of natural fabric shower curtains includes a Mediterranean organic shower curtain inspired by the softness of their best-selling Turkish cotton towels.

Coyuchi’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices

Materials:

Whether you go with Mediterranean, rippled, or waffle looks, you’ll get eco-friendly shower curtains made out of the same stuff as their sustainable towels: 100% GOTS-certified organic cotton.

Doubling as eco-friendly shower curtain liners, the water can simply be squeezed out at the end of the shower and left to air dry. Machine wash for extra freshness.

Supply chain & labor practices:

Coyuchi sources and weaves their organic cotton in Turkey or India, but keeps the sourcing and manufacturing in the same respective country (yay localized supply chains).

They partner with several fair trade equivalent factories and have a range of certifications that are a testament to their ethical supply chain.

Carbon commitments & green practices:

Coyuchi has a 2nd Home Take Back program that accepts old linens to be recycled.

So far, they’ve kept nearly 44,000 pounds of textile waste out of landfills.

Coyuchi is also pioneering the use of fabrics sourced via climate-beneficial farming including Climate Beneficial Wool.

Dusty Linen

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About Dusty Linen

Price Range: $188–$245

Dusty Linen is located in Vilnius, Lithuania, where the cultivation and processing of this fabulous flax-based material go back thousands of years.

It’s what goes into all of their bedding, aprons, curtains, and other textiles.

This Etsy shop’s natural linen shower curtain range includes several colors and sizes as well as waterproof options.

Dusty Linen’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices

Materials:

These non-plastic shower curtains are made with 100% OEKO-TEX-certified European stonewashed linen.

For those with a waterproof lining, this is made of durable 100% polyester, using technologies to make it softer than standard waterproof fabrics.

Supply chain & labor practices:

Everything is handmade in Lithuania.

Bean Products

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About Bean Products

Price Range: $39–$256

Decades before “green” was cool, Bean Products began handcrafting environmentally friendly home essentials.

“Customized comfort with personal panache” is what you’ll get when you purchase their hemp bean bag chairs, body pillows, eco-friendly yoga mats, and more.

Available in both a full tub and stall sizes and three materials—like our favorite earthy and rustic-looking Hemp Shower Curtain—their environmentally-friendly shower curtains are here to “save the planet and your bathroom”.

Bean Products’ Ethical & Sustainability Practices

Materials:

Bean Product’s curtains feature Romanian hemp, organic cotton, and natural undyed cotton.

Not only is each shower curtain natural in material but it’s processed without harsh chemicals or chlorine bleach.

Their fast-drying properties mean they work sans a plastic liner. Just be sure to machine wash once a month.

Each natural fabric shower curtain comes studded with strong, rustproof nickel-plated brass grommets for hanging.

Supply chain & labor practices:

Most items—including their bathroom accessories—are proudly handcrafted in Bean Products’ own sewing factory in Chicago, USA.

Some of the hemp for each hemp shower curtain is sourced domestically.

The Citizenry

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About The Citizenry

Price Range: $119–$209

What is the eco-friendly alternative to shower curtains?

It’s not only one made of eco-friendly materials but one that ensures it was made in a kind and ethical manner.

That’s why we love Fair Trade artisan collective The Citizenry, which showcases this brand’s Stonewashed Linen shower curtain—one of the best Fair Trade shower curtains to splash around with.

The Citizenry’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices

Materials:

Choose between either a natural cotton shower curtain (not organic) or the finest French flax, complete with OEKO-TEX certification.

Supply chain & labor practices:

The linen fair trade shower curtains are crafted in Portugal, in the oldest, family-run mill in the country.

The cotton varieties come from the hands of 32 master weavers in Kannur, India, each of which takes one whole day to complete.

100% of The Citizenry’s sustainable home decor products are made in a fair trade environment guaranteed by the World Fair Trade Organization. They pay double the fair trade wage requirement.

Carbon commitments & green practices:

The Portuguese mill has established programs to recycle energy on the town’s power grid.

Pottery Barn

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About Pottery Barn

Price Range: $20–$128

Pottery Barn is a household name.

Despite their size and seven decades of being in business, they’re pioneering sustainability among major furniture and home decor brands.

Their selection of sustainable shower curtains is impressive, ranging from minimalist colors to fun prints.

Not everything is sustainable (you’ll find some non-recycled polyester shower curtains, too), but you can’t go wrong with options like the Morgan Banded organic shower curtain.

Pottery Barn’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices

Materials:

Not counting their traditional plastic shower curtains (which we recommend avoiding), Pottery Barn uses three natural fibers for their eco shower curtains: 100% GOTS-certified cotton, 100% Belgian flax linen, and 100% BCI cotton.

While they don’t offer any natural or recycled plastic shower curtain liners, the Retreat polyester liner is OEKO-TEX-certified, and their EVA option is PVC-free.

Supply chain & labor practices:

The linen shower curtains are produced in a Fair Trade-certified factory. Look for the badge to find other fair trade products on their site.

So far, Pottery Barn has paid over $7 million in fair trade community development funds.

Carbon commitments & green practices:

91% of their cotton is responsibly sourced, i.e. certified organic or naturally grown through their membership with the BCI.

Their sustainable outdoor furniture uses 100% FSC-certified wood.

Thanks to these efforts (and more), Textile Exchange and Sustainable Furnishings Council have named them a leader in responsible textiles.

Pottery Barn partners with the Renewal Workshop to offer a Renewed line of home furnishings and works to divert 75% of production waste from landfills.

Why Choose A Natural Shower Curtain & Liner?

A nice, hot shower at the end of a long day is magical. Realizing your plastic curtain is potentially toxic, not so much.

Most conventional shower curtains and liners are made with polyvinyl chloride (PVC), the most harmful type of plastic.

PVC shower curtains have been shown to contain dangerous chemicals like phthalates, organotins, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which may be released into the air.

There’s no safe way to dispose of OR recycle a synthetic shower curtain, but you could consider repurposing it.

After all, any shower liner can become a recyclable shower curtain liner with a little creativity!

An old shower curtain can be used as a painting drop cloth or donated to a school art department. You could pack it with your eco-friendly camping gear to use it as a lightweight liner between your tent and the cold, damp ground.

An old fabric shower curtain can be cut up into rags, used as drawer liners, or laid on top of car seats when riding with pets.

What Is An Eco-Friendly Shower Curtain Liner?

The best way to waterproof your body washing is with a natural shower curtain liner.

This could be a natural fiber shower curtain/liner combo that’s just air-dried between showers (with the occasional machine wash).

An all-in-one waxed canvas shower curtain would be the most sustainable shower liner alternative for those looking for solid waterproofing.

As far as non-plastic-free options go, a PEVA shower curtain liner is an okay alternative to PVC, as it’s more biodegradable and recyclable.

While we would like to see more recycled shower curtain liners for those who do prefer the fully waterproof plastic lining, there’s unfortunately not a lot of circularity in this sphere yet.