Before you poo-poo it: reusable toilet paper kicks butt! That said, if you don’t have a washing machine, we’d suggest you skip this natural alternative to toilet paper as it’s necessary to properly sanitize for reuse.
Cared for properly, reusable toilet paper will last 3–5 years with daily use, which saves you a whole (butt)load of money—not to mention saves thousands of trees. Plus, they’re better for your bits, especially if you’re someone with sensitive skin.
To look beyond reusability, our new Brand Rating System is coming soon to extend our search across 22 criteria, like climate action and supply chain waste management. it’s an exciting new developement, so see our explainer here for more details.
Now let’s get this potty started!
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Index: Reusable Toilet Paper Brands
- Marley’s Monsters Jump to brand
- Creekside Kid Jump to brand
- Green Little Nest Jump to brand
- AsYouStitchBaby Jump to brand
- Rag Pads Jump to brand
Marley’s Monsters
Price Range: $42
It’s easy to make a big stink about reusable TP when it works as effectively as Marley’s Monsters.
You ask, but is reusable toilet paper sanitary? Yes, despite what you’re imagining. They’re closely related to reusable organic baby wipes or cloth diapers.
And like their beloved reusable paper towels, MM’s Toilet UNpaper Rolls are 100% soft, absorbent cotton flannel, and give an even comfier feel than the most luxurious 3-ply buttwad.
A single roll of this reusable cloth toilet paper features 24 fabric pieces like little wash cloths that you roll and re-roll around the compostable cardboard center and hang from your toilet roll holder like paper towels. They’re 100% washable and 100% non-flushable; simply use one rag per potty, and collect in a wet bag or designated bin to machine wash hot every few days.
Whether you’re making number one or number two in the toilet, reviewers swear these are the number one choice for post-toilet clean-up, thanks to their softness and absorbency.
The brand started as a single home-made stuffed toy for founder Sarah’s little daughter. Fast-forward, and today they’re sold worldwide and in their brick-and-mortar shop, offering all manner of hand-crafted reusable fabric alternatives to common everyday disposable items.
The Oregon-based brand features 100% plastic-free shipping materials and donates any excess textile waste to recycling nonprofits. To further support their motto “Live Colorfully, Tread Lightly”, MM are also BRING certified.
Also available on Etsy
Creekside Kid
Price Range: $15–$29
Your running mascara or baby’s runny toosh aren’t the only things to wipe up with Creekside Kid.
Alongside their reusable cotton rounds and other wipes, the brand provides highly-rated fabric toilet paper in a wide range of colors, fabrics, and styles.
Every type of reusable “unpaper towels” they sell is soft flannel, gentle on the skin, machine washable, and sewn with serged edges to ensure their longevity. With so many sizes, styles, and patterns available, we especially love their cute patterned ones for kids.
Mother and craftswoman Claudia started the brand to make it simpler for busy families to welcome low-waste living choices to help preserve the Earth in their everyday lives.
Green Little Nest
Price Range: $17–$60
Your home is your nest, and Green Little Nest helps you keep it eco-friendly with organic cotton flannel toilet unpaper and bidet cloth wipes.
Each cloth measures approximately 5 x 6 inches and features two layers of GOTS-certified organic toilet paper (unbleached!), which is sewn with sturdy, professionally serged edges. Packs come in 10, 15, 20, or 30 cloth wipes.
New to poo sans classic paper and scared of possible dirty underwear stains? Firstly, don’t be. Wash day will be a win.
Secondly, they also have packs of family cloth available with fun patterns and prints, sewn from super soft and durable cotton flannel (not organic.) They’re a lot easier to keep clean (usually just natural laundry detergent, baking soda, and hot water!) than something bleached white.
Washington State-based Green Little Nest was started by Makisha, a stay at home mom of two. You can usually find the family all together digging in the garden, scouring for rocks and bugs, or tromping through the gorgeous forests of the Pacific Northwest. All eco-friendly home products are handcrafted with love and used in Makisha’s own family household.
AsYouStitchBaby
Price Range: $19–$28
Our personal favorite approach to reusable cloth toilet paper is pair it with a bidet (known in much of Asia lovingly as a “bum gun”) for a zero waste toilet paper alternative and patting dry with a clean piece of reusable, washable toilet paper like those from AsYouStitchBaby afterward.
We’ve previously shown this brand some love for their super soft organic baby wipes, and their reusable toilet paper is likewise gentle enough for a baby’s bottom. Made from soft 100% cotton flannel, they come in all different colors and patterns, plus there is the option of 100% organic cotton.
Each order comes with 24 cloth 1-ply pieces, 10 x 4 inches, or approximately 2 squares of traditional TP, and serged all the way around the edges.
AsYouStitch is a mother-and-daughter team hailing from Colorado that sells all paperless products including cloth wipes, cloth napkins, paperless towels, burp cloths, and toilet unpaper on Etsy. Everything is handmade with love by mom Lori and can be washed in hot, disinfecting water.
Rag Pads
Price Range: $7–$30
Done crapping yourself yet over the fabric toilet paper concept?
Utah-based and woman owned Rag Pads has one of the widest selections we’ve seen of reusable toilet paper.
Plus they sell a variety of other reusable toilet tools like stylish cloth toilet paper holder options, wet bags, and even hiking pee rags and wet bags for zero waste travel.
Their reusable TP sells in a variety of colors, patterns, shapes, and sizes, and are made from 100% cotton flannel, plus they sell an unbleached, GOTS-certified organic cotton fabric toilet paper option.
Rag Pads provides many other reusable eco-friendly items like washable paper towels, toilet paper, reusable menstrual pads and bags.
DIY Reusable Toilet Paper
We know, it’s easy to lose your s*** over the washable reusable toilet paper concept being a “great idea”. But flush your worries away, because these tushy towels are hygienic, affordable, and healthy for wiping purposes.
You can even make your own reusable toilet paper, and we’re here to show you how. Use this DIY approach, or a washable cloth instead of a toilet paper as one of the easiest hacks for eco-friendly and responsible post-potty care. The handiest cloth toilet paper tutorial we’ve found online is here, which has three sewing approaches.
Here’s a quick list of things needed when learning how to make reusable toilet paper:
- Soft fabric, preferably cotton flannel. You can also use old, soft cotton t-shirts or towels.
- Scissors
- Sewing machine or serger are recommended; needle and thread is still possible, but it will be time consuming.
So, are you willing and ready to take the plunge(r) into the world of DIY and tree-free toilet paper?
