Our bodies and the Earth have endured a lot of crap. From relentless deforestation and loss of ecosystems to the harmful chemicals that get absorbed by our bloodstreams and waterways, regular toilet paper is down in the dumps.
If you give a poop about the health of yourself and your planet, making the switch to non-toxic toilet paper is anything but a bummer.
So for a less dumpy approach to eco-friendly bathroom products, say hello to these toilet paper options for an all-natural revo-poo-tion.
And the brands that make them aren’t just focused on responsible TP materials, but also on chemical use and ethical labor.
Soon we’ll be using our new Brand Rating System that will assess brands against a range of eco-related criteria, like biodiversity impact and waste management. We’ll spare you the verbal diarrhea, but if you want to learn more about this system, see here.
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The Best Organic Toilet Paper Brands For An All-Natural Sh*tuation
After many a successful wipe, we love to make a stink over Save Trees’ tree-free, organic bamboo toilet paper that considers its sustainability every step of the way from shipping to sh*tting.
The heart of the (fecal) matter is that there’s a better way for potty hygiene, and Reel’s septic-safe TP that’s free from bleach, BPA’s, dyes, and inks, proves just at. We’ve tested it and found it strong yet soft, keeping our behinds happy.
Index: Chemical-Free Toilet Paper Brands
- Save Trees Jump to brand
- Tushy Jump to brand
- Reel Jump to brand
- Betterway Jump to brand
- PlantPaper Jump to brand
- AsYouStitchBaby Jump to brand
- Green Little Nest Jump to brand
Save Trees
Price Range: $37–$92
Join us on Cloud Nine with Save Trees’ soft, strong, sustainable organic bamboo toilet paper. Instead of using virgin tree pulp, it’s made from highly regenerative and FSC-certified bamboo that’s sustainably sourced without killing the plant itself, reduces soil erosion, and produces 35% more oxygen than trees can during regeneration.
It’s also free of chlorine bleach, scents, dyes, pesticides, and BPA. Other than the paper itself and the compostable wrapper, just a bit of cornstarch adhesive is used to attach the first sheet to the roll.
We’d also call this toilet paper 100% greenwashing-free, since Save Trees is awarded the highest possible score by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The organic jumbo 3-ply premium toilet paper comes in plastic-free packaging and packs of 24 or 80, which are purchased through their subscription service that can be paused or canceled at any time.
Save Trees’ mission is to “wipe out deforestation”. The Seattle-based brand sources and manufactures their tree-free and chemical-free toilet paper in China, and offset doubly through Carbonfund and planting a tree for every order with One Tree Planted. All packaging is 100% plastic and virgin tree-free, including the 100% post-consumer recycled content they’re mailed in.
Save Trees partners with Food Lifeline (plus other non-profits) to donate over 120,000 (so far) toxin-free toilet paper to local food banks and shelters.
My Personal Review of Cloud’s Toilet Paper:
“After testing out these luxurious 3-ply rolls, I’m super impressed with their soft texture, which is indeed a bit like wiping with a cloud—or at least what I imagine it to be like. The secret that makes these unique compared to other TPs I’ve tried is the weave texture on each sheet, which really enhances the softness without sacrificing the chemically clean and septic-safe nature of each roll.”
Review by Amber McDaniel, SJ’s Head of Content
Tushy
Price Range: $59–$599
Tushy believes there’s a better way to “doo-doo” things, and we support their mission of “fighting for clean bums and reduced global wastefulness.”
Spoil your tush with their organic unbleached toilet paper made from 3-ply bamboo. This 100% organic bamboo, unbleached, BPA-free toilet paper can be used alone or in tandem with their best-selling bidets, which are easy-to-install DIY attachments without the need for a plumber.
Every bamboo toilet paper roll comes with art-decorated recycled paper packaging, both to help reduce the planet’s plastic scourge and to display your tush’s commitment to a healthy planet proudly.
Or look to Tushy’s legendary modern bidets for natural alternatives to toilet paper. Together, their toilet paper and bidet will become your bum’s best buddies, and their toilet paper is designed for patting dry after you spray since it’s strong enough to hold water without tearing.
Tushy toilet paper production happens in Chengdu China, with a published factory tour to support transparency. They have 100% plastic free packaging and shipping, and partner with Samagra to help build community toilets in rural India and support hygiene and dignity.
My Personal Review of Tushy’s Ace Electric Bidet:
“My life was changed long ago by the royal flush of the Ace Electric Bidet, which is worth the upfront investment thanks to its optional heated water output, butt blow dryer, and adjustable heated seat that makes those midnight bathroom runs in the winter (and our winter is very cold) a LOT less jarring.
Not to mention it uses 1/8 gallon of water per potty versus 37 gallons to manufacture one single toilet roll.”
Review by Amber McDaniel, SJ’s Head of Content
Reel
Price: $37–$70
Reel keeps it refreshingly real with chemical-free toilet paper made from bamboo. It’s septic-safe, plastic-free, biodegradable, and 100% free of any BPA, PFAS, inks, dyes, fragrances, and bleach. The toilet paper is whitened using elemental chlorine-free (ECF) technology, which is recognized by the EPA as the healthiest available technology for bleaching paper products.
Whether you’re testing it as a one-off or a forever Reel devotee, the rolls come in boxes of 24, packaged in recycled plastic-free packaging, shipped carbon-neutral, and each roll comes wrapped in 100% recycled and compostable tissue paper, as with their FSC-certified recycled paper towels.
This California-based Certified B Corp’s doo-doo good mission is to provide sanitary and safe bathroom services for marginalized communities, motivated by co-founder Derin Oyekan’s upbringing in Lagos where it was so needed.
They also partner with SOIL Haiti to build toilets and remove harmful waste buildup, which is treated and turned into compost mulch for reforestation projects and local farmers, and they partner with One Tree Planted to help reforest our planet, one tree at a time.
Our Personal Review of Reel’s Toilet Paper:
“Reel ass-isted our recent weeks to the loo with their rolls, and we think they’re some of the most durable organic bamboo toilet paper we’ve tried. Even with that durability, its softness delivers, and it wipes comfortably.”
Review by Amber McDaniel, SJ’s Head of Content
Betterway
Price Range: $25–$64
Try Betterway, for arguably the softest, least toxic toilet paper on the market.
Their Premium Bamboo Double Rolls are made from sustainably sourced 100% FSC-certified and organically grown virgin bamboo pulp, with fluffy soft 3-ply sheets embossed for added strength and a buttload of premium squares per roll—360 to be exact.
Not just ink, fragrance, BPA, lint, and dye-free toilet paper, it’s also hypoallergenic, septic safe, and biodegradable. Their premium bamboo toilet paper is whitened via elemental chlorine free (ECF), which is better for the environment and safer for your bits.
Plus, if you’re not convinced Betterway’s is the best chemical-free toilet paper, the brand has a “happy wiping” satisf-ass-tion guarantee of 100 days.
Betterway is passionate about their “bottom” line. The bamboo used in their toilet paper isn’t farmed commercially, but rather sourced from FSC-certified farms that support local communities. It’s all hand-cut harvested, which means no energy intensive heavy machinery and no other destructive or invasive farming practices.
While the toilet paper is made in China, Betterway’s supply chain only has BSCI-certified partners.
Each roll is wrapped in compostable paper wrappers and is shipped plastic free, including their sugar-based packing tape.
PlantPaper
Price: $68
PlantPaper was started by four friends frustrated by a hygienic practice and industry both in dire need of an update. Because times have changed, along with our notions about what it means to be clean. After three years of conducting extensive research and development, they developed one of the best unbleached toilet paper brands on the market.
This 3-ply septic-safe PFAS-free toilet paper specifically uses the plant power of fast-growing FSC certified bamboo from China, and each roll is soft, strong, absorbent, and made entirely without the use of any harmful chemicals. You get some of the safest toilet paper without bleach, BPAa, PFAS, or formaldehyde—and only a fraction of the water needed to produce tree paper.
Each order comes in either a 16 pack, 32 packs, or 96pack, and 200 sheets per roll, each of which feature two sides—one for grabbing, one for dabbing.
The brand proudly provides an entire supply chain, from manufacturing to your door, that is completely plastic-free. For packaging, PlantPaper uses chipboard cartons and shipping boxes that are 100% recycled, recyclable, compostable, and free of dyes and coating.
AsYouStitchBaby
Price Range: $28
Don’t knock till you’ve tried it as they say, or rather don’t lose your sh*t about the concept of reusable natural toilet paper until you’ve wiped once with it. As You Stitch Baby is one such brand on Etsy providing reusable toilet paper.
Reusable organic cotton toilet paper is 100% hygienic and safe if used correctly. It’s essentially a roll or stack of super-soft washcloths. Whether you use it to pat dry after a bidet, for number one, or number two, the key is to keep a bucket (optional soapy water already inside) with a lid on it beside the toilet.
Use one or two squares per toilet trip, and never flush them down. Instead, drop soiled cloth into your bucket next to the loo and wash them in your washing machine every few days. After they’re washed, just re-roll onto your TP roll or fold in a basket by the can!
Their 100% organic toilet paper comes with 24 pieces that are 10 x 4 inches, or the size of two squares of toilet paper. Each sheet is 1 ply of organic cotton and serged all the way around the edges.
As You Stitch Baby is a clean potty dream mother-and-daughter (do)du-o based in Colorado who make and sell plastic free and paperless products including toilet unpaper, cloth wipes, cloth napkins, paperless towels, and burp cloths via Etsy. All items are handmade with love by mama Lori and can be washed in hot, disinfecting water with eco-friendly laundry detergent after each use.
Green Little Nest
Price: $17–$60
Heads (bottoms?) up, Green Little Nest’s organic cotton toilet paper is reusable, so if you’re not done crapping yourself over the reusable toilet paper concept, maybe save this for another day. Flush away your judgments, because this healthy toilet paper alternative really works.
Each absorbent organic cotton flannel toilet “unpaper” cloth measures 5 x 6 inches and features two layers of unbleached GOTS-certified organic cotton, which is sewn with professionally serged and ever-so-sturdy edges.
Green Little Nest is run by Mashika, a Washington State-based stay at home mom of two. Together the family loves to do wholesome and heart-filled adventures like scouring for rocks and bugs, digging tunnels in the garden, or prancing through the old growth forests of the majestic Pacific Northwest. All products are tried, tested, true, used in Mashika’s own household and handcrafted with love.
Why Choose Chlorine Free Toilet Paper Brands?
Both the toilet paper industry and the hygienic practice could stand going down the drain for once and for all.
Early in the 1900s, the process of mass clearcutting Boreal forests to create virgin tree pulp that’s then heavily bleached and chemically-produced somehow became central to our approach to cleanliness. In the century-plus since, not much has changed.
Meanwhile, the hidden costs of toilet paper are horrendous to both the body of Earth and ourselves. 27,000 trees per day are flushed down the planet’s toilets, including thousands of acres of boreal forest per minute; in Canada, one million acres of it per year.
One tree yields about 1,000 rolls, so one American will wipe out 384 trees during their lifetime.
The process uses 37 gallons of water, 1.5 pounds of wood, and 1/3kWh of electricity to produce one single roll. And we still use highly toxic chlorinated bleach to whiten the paper too, about 253,000 tons per year. If you’ve ever driven past a modern paper mill, you know how toxic those chemicals are. The radius of harmful stench lingers for miles and miles.
Meanwhile, the toilet paper supply chain for North America remains fixed to a small group of powerful corporations who receive little reason to innovate beyond their large toxic mess, as their product and its process continue to contaminate our bloodstream and our ecosystems for their profit.
Chlorine Bleach
Did you know bleached paper is one of the most carcinogenic products?
When conventional toilet paper is bleached with chlorine bleach, carcinogenic chemicals like dioxin are released into the atmosphere, plus they’re released into our skin and bloodstream when we wipe. These toxins then accumulate in our bodies, which can lead to serious health problems.
Meanwhile, there is no reason to keep using such harmful methods. Instead chlorine free toilet paper uses ECF bleach methods and hydrogen peroxide which are significantly less toxic with zero harmful by-products.
PFAS
PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, AKA “forever chemicals,” are ubiquitous manufacturing chemicals that the EPA links with a range of serious issues. These include decreased fertility, increased risk of certain cancers, hypertension in pregnant people, developmental delays in children, low birthweight, hormonal irregularities, elevated cholesterol, reduced immune function, and more.
Even some recycled and supposedly “healthy” toilet paper brands were tested and confirmed to contain the PFAS organic fluorine.
BPA
Also known as bisphenol A, it is a likely toxic endocrine disruptor that’s been linked to cancer, heart disease and infertility. It has been detected in some toilet papers, especially recycled options.
Formaldehyde
It’s used to strengthen the paper to stop it from tearing, but carcinogenic formaldehyde in toilet paper has been linked with chronic vulva irritation …Need we say more?
Synthetic Fragrances
Since manufacturers aren’t required to disclose what comprises their fragrances, we have no way to know if the ingredients are harmful or will cause an allergic reaction to sensitive skin. Phthalates (potent endocrine-disrupting chemicals) and synthetic musks typically hide in there, which are also linked to obesity, hyperactivity in children and degraded sperm quality.
Not to use a potty mouth, but(t) it’s !@#$ing time to change our wasteful, toxic toilet routine. We never wanted our wiping to wipe away our health and our species’ survival on this planet, which is why our methods to “take care of business” need to radically reframe our business-as-usual toilet mindset.
After all, the average human lifespan includes two to three years on the can. Let’s make them count.
