Did you know that of the USA’s 84,000 registered chemicals used in traditional cleaning products, only about 1% have been tested for health impacts?
Time to clean up the dirty world of home cleaners and bring harmony to our home eco-systems with non-toxic cleaning brands.
Not only will they leave your home clean and smelling fresh (and not the fake fragrance kind of fresh), but they’ll also improve your indoor air quality and lead to a more healthy living environment.
From zesty citrus non-toxic all-purpose cleaner to safe floor cleaners, we’re here to provide you with cleaning solutions that are the literal solution to your cleaning nightmares (okay, most of them—because you still have to clean!).
So what are natural alternative cleaners that get the SJ stamp of approval? We looked for brands who use non-toxic ingredients, do not test on animals and offer more responsible packaging.
Moving forward, we’ll be extending this consideration set, as part of our new Brand Rating System, to include a lot lot more – 22 criteria that covers everything from climate action to product performance. Learn more about this here and look out for the rated brands below.
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Our Top Picks: Non-Toxic Cleaning Brands
Blueland is on mission to provide effective, safe, convenient, and affordable products made from environmentally responsible ingredients. We’ve tried most of their refillable range and love not only how effective they but also that they are super low waste with tablet refills that come in biodegradable and compostable packaging.
Using some of nature’s most powerful (and safe) ingredients, Dropps’ food-safe cleaners will cut through grease and stuck-on food to help you save time, effort, and water.
SuperBee’s Hexawash revolutionizes the world of chemical-free cleaning products. This nifty, natural device uses the power of magnesium to clean over 300 loads of laundry—without ANY additional soap.
Index: Non-Toxic Cleaning Brands
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Blueland
Blueland’s Cleaning Products
Price Range: $18–$61
Blueland offers an exciting range of non-toxic cleaning supplies for all areas of your home.
From hand soap to dishwasher detergent and tablets to septic safe toilet bowl cleaners, Blueland ensures a cleaner planet starts at home thanks to plastic-free products and plant-based cleaning enzymes.
About Blueland
Blueland is a Certified B Corp and only uses EWG-approved natural ingredients which also happen to be gluten-free, cruelty-free, and vegan.
This non-toxic cleaning brand holds several product certifications from organizations such as Cradle to Cradle, Leaping Bunny, EPA Safer Choice, MADE SAFE, and USDA BioPreferred.
The brand is also Climate Neutral Certified and gives back to organizations like Lonely Whale, solidifying their status as making the safest cleaning products for planet Earth.
Our Personal Review Of Blueland’s Cleaning Products:
“Our cleaning cabinet looks like a Blueland warehouse, but we particularly like The Clean Essentials Kit. It includes non-toxic glass cleaner, hand soap, multi-surface cleaning spray, and a bathroom cleaner, all of which come in the form of a dissolvable tablet form—meaning no more plastic beyond your initial spray bottles.
Each product works super well, and we love how lightly scented they are. It’s just enough to add freshness to the room without overpowering the whole house. If you wanted to minimize your cleaning cabinet further, you could easily just go with the multi-purpose cleaner for all kitchen and bathroom use—which is what I do now.”
Review by Amber McDaniel, SJ’s Head Of Content
Dropps
Dropps’ Non-Toxic Home Cleaning Products
Price Range: $28
Using micro-scrubbing technology, Dropps cut through grease and stuck-on food using minimal water, effort, and time.
Their Power Dish Spray Starter Kits utilizes micellar technology to power clean your dishes without harsh chemicals or plastic. The micelles molecules attach to oil and food particles, making them easy to rinse away, and zero B.S (boring scrubbing).
It’s formulated using CleanGredients and contains nothing from the EPA’s Clean Water Act’s List of Toxic Pollutants.
The products are delivered in an amber glass spray bottle, which is easy to clean and use again, refilling them with Dropps refill concentrates.
About Dropps
Certified B Corp Dropps entered the safe cleaner scene by virtue of their zero waste laundry detergent.
Now, they’ve expanded their eco-friendly, non-toxic cleaning product range to include dish soap, oxi booster (which doubles as non-toxic carpet cleaner and stain remover), hand soap, and room sprays (that won’t disrupt your hormone system).
In the interests of total transparency, a list of ingredients can be found on every online product page.
Common Good
Common Good’s Household Cleaners
Price Range: $9–$132
Common Good’s range of non-toxic cleaning products are safe for pets and human family members, but also safe for the planet.
Using a refill business model, the whole range includes one of the best non-toxic bathroom cleaners, toilet cleaner, glass cleaner, and natural all-purpose cleaners.
Common Good products are all phthalate, sulfate, and paraben free, and contain no harsh chemicals that might contribute VOCs into the air. They’re scented with well-tested 100% essential oils.
About Common Good
Sacha Dunn founded Common Good because of her worry about greenwashing and the need to find truly natural, refillable household products.
Packaging is made from glass, paper, and LLDPE, a recyclable type of plastic. Common Good products are not tested on animals, as certified by Leaping Bunny.
Corn-derived ingredients come from non-GMO sources and palm oil derivatives are certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.
Dr. Bronner’s
Dr. Bronner’s Cleaning Products
Price Range: $10–$66
Dr. Bronner’s is for cleaning everything with just one all-in-one product.
All-One isn’t just an optimistic name; it’s exactly what this soap is. With 18 (and honestly more) uses for this one pure castile soap, there’s nothing it can’t do.
We always keep a bottle on hand, where we need it as emergency dish soap, laundry detergent, non-toxic toilet bowl cleaner, floor cleaner, or the occasional use as eco-friendly carpet cleaner.
Biodegradable according to OECD Guideline 310, this organic non-toxic cleaning product contains no synthetic preservatives, detergents, or foaming agents, only certified fair trade ingredients like coconut oil, olive oil, hemp seed oil, and jojoba oil, all of which are organic.
The soap comes in a 100% post-consumer recycled plastic bottle and we love that Dr. B now offers liquid soap refills in FSC-certified paper cartons with aluminum lining.
About Dr Bronner’s
Dr. Bronner’s is a Certified B Corp, committed to fair trade practices and offering employees 100% free health care, yearly bonuses, and profit sharing.
Its green business practices are equally impressive and include recycling, water-saving, renewable energy, sustainable ingredient sourcing (especially where palm oil is concerned), and sustainable shipping materials.
They also support a variety of causes including animal advocacy, drug reform, plant medicine, wage equality, and youth services.
SuperBee
SuperBee’s Cleaning Products
Price Range: $50
Sure, we love the paper towel alternatives from SuperBee when it comes to cleaning, this brand offers something even more superb(ee).
Introducing: the Hexawash, which is our personal favorite new laundry detergent.
It’s SuperBee’s laundry detergent substitute, and while $50 might seem like a sizable investment in a laundry detergent, that’s until you realize it’s good for more than 300 loads—which works out at $0.16 per load.
That’s a small price to pay for the peace of mind you get from using none of those nasty chemicals found in conventional detergents.
Instead, the Hexawash uses magnesium to keep your whites.
In addition, fully biodegradable, hypoallergenic, and comes with a GOTS-certified organic cotton storage pouch.
About SuperBee
In addition to their laundry detergent, SuperBee offers a full range of kitchen products: beeswax wraps, dish soap, and other cleaning essentials are all in SuperBee’s repertoire.
This social enterprise is located in Northern Thailand, where they employ a dedicated team of locals who are paid 20% more than the Fair Trade Association’s suggested living wage.
Other causes that are close to SuperBee’s heart include women’s empowerment, creating rural employment opportunities for women, enforcing the labor laws of Thailand, and supporting local volunteer firefighters who would otherwise have insufficient gear and supplies.
etee
etee’s Cleaning Products
Price Range: $12–$44
If you’re looking for a selection of dish soaps, etee has three to choose from: a liquid concentrate, dish soap bar, or eco-friendly dishwasher detergent powder.
Our favorite is the Citrus Sunshine Liquid Concentrate, which really does make our kitchen smell like citrus (naturally) and our dishes shine like sunshine.
No matter which you choose, this safe cleaning brand promises products that are palm oil free, vegan, and formulated with all plant-based USDA organic certified ingredients.
It comes in an innovative beeswax refill pod, making it plastic free and fully compostable (though we actually save our pods and eventually re-melt them into new beeswax items).
The dish soap itself is free from foaming agents, synthetic fragrances, phthalates, sulfates, parabens, unnatural preservatives, and any formaldehyde base.
Complete your non-toxic cleaning kit with one of their Loofie scrubbers.
About etee
What started as a shop in a friend’s basement making beeswax wraps became a more solid business idea after the patter of tiny feet got etee’s owner thinking.
What we particularly admire about this zero waste online store, is that they produce everything they sell—which ranges vastly from toothpaste and floss to dish and laundry soap—and they have complete oversight of the supply chain.
Production takes place in a factory that’s powered by renewable energy and they ship via carbon neutral shipping.
Ecologie by Danica
Ecologie by Danica’s Cleaning Cloths
Price Range: $6–$42
Ecologie by Danica make such a handy addition to your kitchen and bathroom cleaning arsenal.
Made from 70% cellulose and 30% cotton, these cloths can be tossed in an indoor compost bin at the end of their life.
A range of fun patterns are available, all of which are designed by the brand’s parent company, Danica.
About Ecologie by Danica
This non-toxic cleaning brand’s clothes are made in Sweden.
Some profits are donated to Education Without Borders, an organization that provides educational resources and opportunities to communities in need.
Our Personal Review of Ecologie’s Swedish Dishcloths
We’re obsessed with these dishcloths, which are super absorbent and can handle all our cleaning needs for months (with some sanitizing runs in the dishwasher in between).
We use them for everything and they’re still going strong after well over a year’s use.
Review by Joy McConnochie, SJ Co-founder
Why Use Non-Toxic & Organic Cleaning Products?
Many conventional cleaning products may do a decent job of getting your house cleaner, but they’re dirtying up our air, our bodies, and our planet.
There are no shortage of reasons to choose chemical-free cleaners:
- Healthier indoor air quality: Non-toxic & organic cleaners contain no harsh chemicals and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The EPA found that cleaning chemicals cause indoor air pollution that’s three times as likely to cause cancer as outdoor air pollution.
- Safer for children and pets: Pets and children are more vulnerable to the effects of toxic chemicals because of their smaller size and developing immune systems, so pet safe cleaners are a must. Between child poisonings, a 20x increase in asthma, and chemicals being found in the blood of newborn babies, it’s clear something needs to change.
- Reduced chemical exposure: Natural cleaners use gentle ingredients that are less likely to cause skin reactions.
- Water quality preservation: You’re minimizing water pollution and protecting local water sources.
- Sustainability: Many non-toxic cleaning products are made using renewable and sustainable resources.
- Allergen & irritant reduction: Non-toxic house cleaner is less likely to contain allergens or irritants that can trigger allergies or sensitivities in vulnerable individuals.
And let’s not forget about the long-term health benefits you get from all that. When you consistently use non-toxic cleaning products you’re contributing to your long-term health and well-being by reducing your exposure to potentially harmful chemicals over time.
You can champion the cause of non-toxic & organic cleaning further by sharing this list with anyone whose home could use a safe sprucing up—which is to say all of us!
