Subscription services took off in the early 2010s with meal replacements and beauty products. Now, you can find a box for just about anything. But what about sustainable subscription boxes bringing responsibly-made products right to your doorstep?
It may seem counterproductive at first—more consumer goods, carbon emissions, and cardboard packaging. And you would be correct if the brands on our list didn’t provide plastic-free, zero-waste, recyclable, biodegradable, and carbon-neutral products. But that’s exactly what they offer.
In fact, some of their boxes are a complete surprise courtesy of new low-waste products each month, while others allow you to pick and choose what you need and how often you need it. Personally, we think the latter is the best way to make your subscription box eco-friendly. That way, you know you’re getting things you need and will use.
So, in the immortal words of Brad Pitt: what’s in the (sustainability) box? Let’s break it open and find out.
You may notice a few brands on this list have been rated by us on their sustainability credentials. You can learn more about this here and see other rated brands here.
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The Best Eco-Friendly Subscription Boxes
Blueland offers a line of cleaning products. We’ve personally tested most of them and have nothing but good things to say. We found the products effective for all our cleaning needs, and the compostable refill packaging helps keep our waste to a minimum. Blueland has been comprehensively rated by us on their sustainability credentials – find the full rating here.
Earthlove’s subscription boxes offer a wide range of goodies including beauty supplies, home goods and fashion. The boxes can be customized or pre-made boxes are available.
For an organic subscription box to fill your pantry with healthy staples, Thrive Market provides a one-stop shop for a range of sustainable, organic, non-GMO, vegan, gluten-free, and non-toxic grocery supplies at discounted rates.
Who Gives a Crap offers toilet paper subscriptions to save $ on this key essential. They are a social enterprise who donates 50% of their profits and does super well on sustainability too. Who Gives a Crap has been comprehensively rated by us on their sustainability credentials – find the full rating here.
Index: Sustainable Subscription Boxes
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- Who Gives A Crap Jump to section
- Earthlove Jump to section
- Rent the Runway Jump to section
- Winc Jump to section
- Grove Collaborative Jump to section
- Thrive Market Jump to section
- Alltrue Jump to section
- Ecocentric Mom Jump to section
- Green Future Box Jump to section
- Mysa Wine Jump to section
- Love Goodly Jump to section
- RAEL Jump to section
Blueland
BIPOC Owned
Brand is owned by Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color.
Carbon Neutral
Brand has been certified as Carbon Neutral.
Cruelty-free
Products are not test on animals at any stage in their production.
Ethical Sourcing
Raw materials have been sourced ethically with people and planet in mind.
Non-toxic
All products are made with ingredients or materials that are currently considered non-toxic
PFAS Free
Products have been tested and verified to be free of PFAS
Plastic-free
All products are entirely plastic-free
Refillable
Product packaging can be refilled with more product, either at a physical store or via a return program.
Thoughtful packaging
Product packaging has been designed and created with the end of life outcome in mind and can be easily recycled or composted.
Vegan
This brand does not use any animal products or by-products in their products
Woman Owned
This brand is owned by a woman or a group of women.
B Corp
Climate Neutral Certified
Cradle to Cradle
EPA Safer Choice
EWG Verified
Leaping Bunny
MADE SAFE®
USDA BioPreferred
Blueland’s Subscription Box For Cleaning
Blueland is one of our favorite brands and provides fantastic kits to get you scrubbing in a safe and sustainable way.
Options like The Clean Essentials provide you with reusable glass bottles and refillable multi-surface, hand soap, bathroom cleaner, and glass cleaner solutions. Once you run out, you can purchase refillable tablets and decide on monthly subscription dates for all the products you use, so you always have cleaning supplies on hand.
About Blueland
Blueland provides affordable and refillable cleaning products that don’t contain VOCs, parabens, chlorine bleach, ammonia, or phthalates. Any palm oil used is RSPO-certified sustainable.
Blueland is a Certified B Corp, with many certifications, including Climate Neutral, Cradle to Cradle, USDA Bioopreferred, EPA Safer Choice, and Leaping Bunny. All shipping materials are made from recyclable cardboard, compostable packaging, or paper-padded mailers made from 77% recycled fibers.
Blueland has been rated by Sustainable Jungle. Find the full rating here.
Our Personal Review of Blueland’s Clean Essentials Kit:
“We’ve personally tested the Clean Essentials kit—along with just about every other one Blueland provides, including their laundry and dish kits. We’ve found all their products to be super effective and love how waste-free they are. Everything comes in tablet form, so the only waste with each monthly subscription is the tablet refill packet, which is biodegradable and industrially compostable.
Their “forever bottles” are a pleasure to use and don’t take up too much space, helping to streamline our cleaning supplies. They smell great, too, without being too overpowering.”
Review by Amber McDaniel, SJ’s Head Of Content
Who Gives A Crap
Compostable
All or some products are compostable, either in an industrial facility or at homeEthical Sourcing
Raw materials have been sourced ethically with people and planet in mind.
Green Energy
Brand exclusively uses green energy to power their headquarters.Plastic-free
All products are entirely plastic-free
Recycled materials
Some or all products are made with recycled materialsThoughtful packaging
Product packaging has been designed and created with the end of life outcome in mind and can be easily recycled or composted.
B Corp
FSC
Who Gives A Crap’s Subscription Box
Who Gives A Crap—we give a crap! This toilet paper brand provides a box for your most delicate bits. Their toilet paper subscription service has saved us from running out on multiple occasions.
They offer 2-ply “tree free” eco-friendly toilet paper made from 100% post-consumer recycled content or 3-ply bamboo. You can subscribe to receive shipments of up to 48 toilet rolls every 2–4 months, delivered via carbon-neutral shipping.
About Who Gives A Crap
The Australian-based Certified B Corp donates 50% of its profits, ensuring as many people as possible have access to clean water and a toilet. With entirely plastic-free shipping, each roll comes in a colorful individual wrapper, which can be recycled or repurposed.
Who Gives A Crap has been rated by Sustainable Jungle. Find the full rating here.
Our Personal Review of Who Gives A Crap’s Toilet Paper:
“We’ve tested both the recycled and bamboo TP, and both are comfortably soft and strong enough to handle the poke test! The bamboo’s a tad tougher, but honestly, we’d happily use either one. The fun wrapping brightens up our bathroom and we love that they donate 50% of profits to charity. “
Review by Amber McDaniel, SJ’s Head of Content
Earthlove
Earthlove’s Subscription Boxes
Price Range: $45–$230
Earthlove’s subscription boxes include beauty supplies, home goods, apparel, and other eco-friendly products. Subscribers can customize their own subscription box or select one of the pre-made options.
Each package is available in small, standard, and deluxe sizes containing 5–10 wellness products and reusable essentials. Think: reusable mesh produce bags, microgreens growing kits, and unique products like the Upcycled Native Bee Bottle, designed to provide a perfect bee habitat in your backyard.
Please note if you opt for the vegan and cruelty-free box, you may receive items with ethically sourced beeswax.
About Earthlove
Earthlove handpicks all items that make their way into the subscription boxes, prioritizing natural, organic, vegan, responsibly sourced, and zero-waste products. Each sustainable subscription box is shipped in 100% plastic-free and post-consumer packaging. Earthlove offers carbon-neutral shipping through the carbon offset program Cloverly, and its farm uses solar power to reduce its carbon footprint.
They are a proud member of 1% for the Planet and Green America, and partner with different non-profit organizations supporting environmental causes each season.
Rent the Runway
Rent the Runway’s Clothing Subscription Box
Price Range: $94–$149
Rent the Runway’s eco-friendly clothing subscription takes the form of an online clothing rental service that will have you strutting down the catwalk in sustainable style.
We’ve personally used the membership and love how it allows you to reserve styles for one-time rentals or recurring pieces, depending on your schedule. You can select up to 5, 10, or 15 items each month, with every piece coming dry-cleaned and ready to wear. Once your designated time frame is up, you send the clothing back, pick new items, and repeat the process.
There are plenty of options, whether you need a chic Tanya Taylor top for the office or a sustainable wedding guest dress for a fancy occasion. In essence, it allows you to spice up your closet and effortlessly change your style without wasting fabric (and money!).
About Rent the Runway Membership
Rent the Runway minimizes the need for new garment production and offsets all of its carbon emissions from shipments to and from customers. The shipping materials includes a reusable zippered shipping bag and plastic hangers, along with plastic garment protectors, all of which RTR reuses once you send back.
They have made significant strides in improving their energy, water, and emission production over time. Rent the Runway also prioritizes diversity and inclusive employment, with representation for women, non-binary, and racial minority individuals.
Winc
Winc’s Subscription Boxes For Wine
Price Range: $30+
Winc will help you discover the wine of your dreams. Start by taking a palate profile quiz and Winc will personally customize your box with things they think you’ll enjoy. If you disagree with their picks, choose your own instead before checkout.
The California-based brand has customers answer a short questionnaire to personalize their wine flavors. The monthly box includes four bottles personally curated to the customer’s tastes. This includes reds, whites, and roses from different regions and with varying sweetness levels, taste notes, and body.
About Winc
Winc offers sustainably-farmed, organic, and non-GMO wines. These products tend to cause less harm to the environment, using environmentally sound and socially equitable practices. They also bottle everything at a winemaking facility in Buellton, CA, which is more efficient and environmentally friendly.
Grove Collaborative
Grove Collaborative’s Subscription Box
Price Range: Varies by product
Signing up with Grove Collaborative provides you with access to 200+ vetted brands of eco-friendly home and personal care products—including dish soap, laundry detergent, carpet cleaners, dishcloths, shampoo, recycled trash bags, and more. Many of the brands have been featured in our sustainable products lists, like Bees Wrap, U-Konserve, and Dr. Bronner’s.
You can customize your cart with precisely what you need and schedule deliveries with reminders, so you’re never without household essentials.
About Grove Collaborative
All the products at Grove must meet their high standards for ingredient transparency, cruelty-free and plant-based formulas, and being completely plastic-neutral. If any order includes plastic, this Certified B Corp removes the same amount of plastic waste from the environment through various programs.
Grove carbon offsets orders and also provides customers with the opportunity to donate to various initiatives at check-out, like reforestation and conservation projects.
My Personal Review of Grove Collaborative’s Essential Cleaners Set & Floor Cleaner Concentrate:
“I gave Grove Co.’s Essential Cleaners Set in the orange and rosemary scent a try, and I’m pretty impressed. The set comes with a glass cleaner, multi-purpose cleaner, and tub & tile cleaner, and while the bottles look tiny, they’re packed with a concentrated formula that works great on grease and dirt. My only gripe is the packaging—though the glass and aluminum caps are eco-friendly, mine leaked a bit during shipping because the cap wasn’t quite tight enough. Fortunately, the other items weren’t ruined, but it’s something I’ll keep in mind for future orders.
“I also trialed Grove Co.’s Floor Cleaner Concentrate in citron and white rose, and while I’m not ready to say mopping is my new favorite activity, this definitely makes it more bearable. A small amount goes a long way on my reusable Swiffer pad, and it leaves my floors spotless without any sticky residue, which has been a problem in the past with other cleaners. Plus, the scent is lovely—a fresh blend of citrus and rose that fills the room with a clean, inviting fragrance without being overpowering.”
Review by Amber McDaniel, SJ’s Head of Content
Thrive Market
Thrive Market’s Subscription Box
Price Range: Varies by products and frequency
If you’re in the mood for something sweet and savory, try Thrive Market’s sustainable grocery boxes. They not only help you eat healthier, but will also help you skip trips to the dreaded grocery store by delivering things like organic snacks, pantry staples, and even meat right to your door.
Their customizable weekly, biweekly, or monthly subscriptions allow customers to select from a selection of grocery, beauty, and lifestyle goods at about 25% off retail price. Thrive has over 6,000 organic, non-GMO, and non-perishable pantry snacks, cleaning products, and personal care items for customers to select from and subscriptions are based on your own values. When signing up, you can select things like vegan, whole foods, keto, and more to only see the products that fit your ethical inclinations.
About Thrive Market
Thrive Market is a Certified B Corp that provides a more affordable option for finding grocery and lifestyle products for conscious customers, and for each new subscription purchased, they provide a free one to families in need.
They source from mostly sustainable food brands and skip the middleman to keep things traceable and affordable. Thrive ships carbon-neutral from their zero waste warehouse in paper that is made from FSC certified 100% recycled content.
Alltrue
Alltrue’s Subscription Box
Price Range: $65–$70
Formerly known as CAUSEBOX, Alltrue stays true to the values of sustainability, ethical manufacturing, and responsible design. Alltrue’s subscription box provides members with a box filled with 6–8 eco-friendly products valued up to $250 every three months.
The products are “best in class” home decor, clean beauty supplies (that adhere to some of the strictest industry standards), and everything else you could need to live a more eco-conscious lifestyle. Your box comes with items like a 10” pan by Brooklyn Steel Co., silicone sandwich bags, cotton bed blankets, and so much more.
While some are plastic-free products, their seasonal boxes may contain select plastic.
About Alltrue
Alltrue has made strides in the sustainable subscription box market through initiatives like its in-house artisan program. The program follows Fair Trade principles while preserving handmade craftsmanship. Through the in-house program, Alltrue has employed thousands of workers, providing dignified wages, women’s empowerment, and learning opportunities.
Subscription box members also receive access to Alltrue’s Essentials Market—an open shop with sustainable products and cleaning solutions at discounted prices.
Ecocentric Mom
Ecocentric Mom’s Subscription Service For Mom & Baby
Price Range: $196–$536
Ecocentric Mom is perfect for women, moms, and moms-to-be. The subscription service ships each box based on the timeframe of a mother’s pregnancy—1st, 2nd, and 3rd trimesters. Each box contains self-care, beauty, and baby products from handpicked ethical and sustainable brands.
Boxes like the Organic 2nd Trimester Box contain eco-friendly products, like baby oil, bath bombs, and essential oil sprays. It’s a thoughtful gift for a mom-to-be or a way to pamper yourself before the big day.
About Ecocentric Mom
Ecocentric Mom is, well, ecocentric. They’re always looking for eco-friendly materials and ingredients, including certified non-GMO, zero artificial colors, certified organic, cruelty-free, and paraben-free.
Unfortunately, the boxes aren’t shipped in plastic-free or recyclable packaging, but Ecocentric Mom is working towards plastic-neutral processes.
Green Future Box
Green Future Box’s Subscription Box
Price Range: £20
Green Future Box provides high-quality, vegan-friendly, cruelty-free, and plastic-free subscription boxes in the United Kingdom.
The boxes are filled with items designed to help you live a more sustainable lifestyle. Past boxes, like the Kitchen Box, include sustainable kitchen products like natural dish soap, recycled cotton dishcloths, and a bamboo dish brush. When you sign up, you answer a short questionnaire to customize your box, so you’re receiving items you actually want.
About Green Future Box
Green Future ensures its everyday life items are vegan-friendly, plastic-free, and cruelty-free. Many of the items are reusable, recyclable, and environmentally friendly. Green Future sources its paper and cardboard products from recycled sources.
Mysa Wine
Mysa Wine’s Eco-Friendly Subscription Boxes
Price Range: $85–$125
Mysa Wine provides subscribers with high-quality natural wine. You can select from 3, 6, or 12 bottles delivered to your doorstep monthly, bi-monthly, or quarterly. Mysa incorporates personal touches, like video tastings, food pairing suggestions, tasting notes, and more. Their customer service is top-notch, with countless positive reviews from satisfied subscribers.
About Mysa Wine
Mysa only carries small growers that utilize low-intervention farming and cellar techniques. Their partners are sustainable, organic, and biodynamic and use minimal or zero sulfites.
The shipping materials are made from 97% renewable corrugated board. The ice packs are drain-safe and reusable. They’re a member of 1% for the Planet and a female-founded company with a passion for empowering women and BIPOC communities through organizations like Color of Change and The Roots Fund.
Love Goodly
Love Goodly’s Beauty Subscription Box
Price Range: $35–$360
Love Goodly makes it easy to switch to vegan, non-toxic, and cruelty-free beauty products with its eco-friendly beauty subscription boxes. The bi-monthly boxes contain up to four products with twelve different Eco Labels—Organic, Fair Trade, and Non-GMO, to name a few.
Some of the items in previous boxes range from facial oils, natural face serum, anti-aging eye creams, face masks, and sweet treats. Everything included is a surprise, but when selecting your box, you can shop by value—such as vegan, handmade, made in the USA, recycled, and more—to ensure the surprise products align with your beliefs. They do their best to select gluten-free options, but it is not a guarantee.
About Love Goodly
Goodly is a women-founded, women-led, and women-run company, giving back to new causes throughout the year, like Uncle Neil’s Home. The box itself is recyclable, FSC-certified, and responsibly printed. Love Goodly also tries to minimize plastic at every step, but some products contain it.
RAEL
RAEL’s Subscription Box
Price Range: $8+
Instead of a surprise box each month, RAEL allows you to select your favorite items and subscribe for a discounted price. You can determine your delivery frequency and have your bathroom staples delivered to your front door.
They have everything you need for your monthly menstruation needs, including reusable or disposable organic pads, liners, tampons, period underwear, and healing patches. If you need something for your skin to deal with those hormonal breakouts, they have you covered with acne products and face masks.
About RAEL
RAEL prioritizes clean ingredients, with all products being vegan-friendly, except for Collagen Sheet Masks. The products are designed in California, with recyclable product packaging and plastic containers. Customers can also select Route+ Green shipping at check-out for additional security and carbon offsetting.
RAEL partners with organizations like I Support the Girls to fight against poverty and ensure as many people have access to menstrual products.
