Cleaning products, laundry, refills and simple home-made alternatives.
Vinegar, soda crystals, soap and a microfibre cloth clean most of the home. For laundry and washing-up, refill stations and concentrated products cut down on plastic bottles.
The “Économiser” pages of ADEME, the French ecological transition agency, are free guides to spending less on electricity, heating, fuel, water and everyday purchases. They need no account, carry no…
Alternative to energy-saving advice from suppliers and salespeople who want to sell you something
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Goldeimer is a Hamburg social enterprise that sells recycled toilet paper with the Blauer Engel label and compost toilets for gardens, allotments and camper vans, and puts its profits into sanitation…
Alternative to toilet paper from big paper groups and to chemical camping toilets
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Sonett is a German maker of ecological washing and cleaning products, founded in 1977 near Lake Constance: laundry detergents, washing-up liquid, cleaners and soaps based on plant soaps, sugar…
Alternative to conventional detergents and cleaners from large chemical groups, with petroleum-based ingredients and single-use bottles
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The Unverpackt Verband (Unverpackt e.V.) is the association of German zero-packaging shops, where customers fill their own jars, bags and bottles with dry goods, oils, cleaning products and cosmetics…
Alternative to supermarket groceries wrapped in plastic
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The EU Ecolabel is the European Union’s official environmental label, with a flower logo, for products and services that meet published criteria; for cleaning products it limits hazardous substances…
Alternative to cleaning products with green claims that nobody checks
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memo is a German mail-order company that sells more than 20,000 products for the office, home and everyday life chosen for their sustainability, and ships them in a reusable box at no extra charge…
Alternative to Lyreco, Amazon and other big office-supply sellers
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Frosch is a range of household cleaners, washing-up liquids and laundry products from Werner & Mertz, a family company in Mainz, whose bottles are made from plastic collected in household recycling…
Alternative to cleaning products from Procter & Gamble, Henkel and Reckitt
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L’Arbre Vert is a French brand of washing-up liquids, laundry detergents, household cleaners and toiletries sold in supermarkets, most of them certified with the EU Ecolabel and made in France.
Alternative to conventional cleaning products and toiletries from big consumer-goods groups
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smarticular is a German website and publisher with free recipes for making cleaning and laundry products from a few basic ingredients, such as baking soda, washing soda, vinegar, citric acid and curd…
Alternative to buying a separate cleaning product for every job
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Jean Bouteille is a French system of reusable deposit glass bottles for liquids sold loose in shops, such as oil, vinegar, wine, beer and detergents: customers fill the bottle from a dispenser and…
Alternative to single-use bottles of oil, vinegar, wine and detergent
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A clean home without harsh chemicals
Energy and heating
Water and sanitation
Waste, recycling and zero waste
Shopping: online, marketplaces and local shops
Office, paper and printing
Cosmetics and hygiene
Repair and do it yourself