Home Cleaning and Laundry Non Toxic Shopping Guide

Living non-toxic often gets a bad rep for being expensive and elitist, but cleaning your home is actually one of the areas where you can save! With just a few simple ingredients, it is very easy to address all of your cleaning needs. Here is our list of recommended cleaning products.

For all of our buying guides, check out our Ultimate Toxin-Free Shopping Guide.

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Household Cleaners

• Organic Liquid Castile Soap by Vermont Soap It’s very easy to make your own all purpose cleaner. Pair this with an Amber Glass Spray Bottle for DIY recipes.
• Cliganic Organic Essential Oils Starter 6-pack (to add scents to DIY cleaning recipes)
• Branch Basics Liquid Concentrate (don't be alarmed by the high price, you can make 27 all purpose cleaner spray bottles from one concentrate bottle, and even more products like window cleaner with different concentrations. It is actually less expensive than buying the individual spray bottles at your supermarket.)
• Briotech HOCL Sanitizer and Disinfectant
• Meliora All-Purpose Home Cleaner Tablets
• Meliora Foaming Hand Soap Tablets

Dishwasher

• Dirty Labs Dishwasher Detergent (our favorite!! very effective)
• Mama Suds Dishwasher Powder (caution: contains citric acid, but is non-gmo)

Laundry

We are often asked for an in-store laundry detergent option, and we're sad to report that there really isn't any. However, if you have a Whole Foods Supermarket in your area, most of them carry the ORGANIC Whole 365 Laundry Detergent in store. But make sure it is the organic variety, as they also carry another 365 detergent that is not toxin-free (that one does not say organic).

• Root & Splendor Liquid Laundry Detergent
• Root & Splendor Stain Remover (amazing!!)
• Branch Basics Oxygen Boost Whitener
• Molly Suds Baby Powder Laundry Detergent (with enzymes; please note: the liquid Molly Suds detergent is no longer clean as they are using phenoxyethanol; they also have a regular powder detergent which is clean, but we did not find it as effective as the baby one because their regular one does not have enzymes).

Shower and Bath Water Filters

• Waterdrop Faucet Filter (NSF certified)
• Coolang Aqua Monster Shower Filter (NSF Certified)
• Weddell Duo Shower Filter (NSF Certified; easy to change filters)
• AquaBliss Shower Filter (we like this one because the price is accessible and it’s a multi-stage filtration system; don’t forget to keep up with the filters. We suggest you stock up or buy a bundle. UL certified which means they follow safety and quality standards, but doesn't necessarily test the effectiveness.)
• Aquasana Carbon and KDF Filtration (Tested to NSF/ANSI 177)
• Crystal Quest White Bath Tub Ball Water Filter

Hand Soap

• Organic Liquid Castile Soap by Vermont Soap Place in a foaming hand soap pump in your desired dilution (at minimum 50 water/50 soap, but you can also do 2/3rd water/ 1/3rd soap!)
• Meliora Foaming Hand Soap Tablets

Air Purifiers

• AirDoctor air purifier (captures 0.003 micron sized particles)
• Jaspr (captures 0.1 micron sized particles, medical-grade)
• Alen Air Purifiers (captures 0.1 micron sized particles, medical-grade; more affordable)

Ingredients for DIY Cleaning Recipes

We're working on compiling a list of our favorite homemade cleaning recipes. We will come back and update this article when it is ready. In the meantime, here is basically every single ingredient and tool you need to make almost any cleaning product for your home.