cleancult || Zero Waste Cleaning for the Home or Office
I’m not a “clean freak”. Ask my mom, I never have been; or ask AJ, I probably never will be. As much as I love clean, beautiful spaces, I’m not excited about keeping things that way. Alas, cleaning is part of life and something that I, thanks to my roles as mama and business owner, get to do a lot of.
Like all aspects of life, cleaning has a “dark side” that gets lots of media attention and greenwashing but not many lasting or helpful solutions. According to The Cleaning Institute (yes, that’s a thing), the cleaning industry as a whole brings in a whopping $59 billion each year in the US alone. Unfortunately, the majority of “standard cleaning brands” are packed with synthetics and toxins that have been proven to be unsafe for both our homes and businesses AND are packaged in plastic or other materials that create more waste and leach more and more chemicals into our day to day life.
Although there are a handful of brands who create cleaning supplies without some of the most harmful toxins, you’ll be hard pressed to find a brand that creates products with BOTH the ingredients and the planet in mind.
cleancult is on a mission to change that.
Honestly, when cleancult approached me about a collaboration, I was skeptical. There is so much greenwashing (pun definitely intended) in most “green” cleaning brands that I usually take one look at their ingredient list or packaging and politely decline. But this time it was different.
This brand claimed to be zero waste AND toxin-free, which seemed too good to be true. So I agreed to sample some products before we went for a bigger promotion.
And it was the real deal, my friends.
Clean Ingredients
cleancult puts a full list of their ingredients on the back of each product. Saponified coconut oil is the star ingredient, but all of the other ingredients are easily pronounceable and easy to research.
Clean Packaging
The first package arrived in a cardboard box (easily recycled) and the cleaning supplies came in beautiful glass jars that can be reused basically forever. At first, I was thrown off by plastic-esque wrapping around each of the dishwasher and laundry tablets, but after reading more, learned that these weren’t plastic at all and would dissolve in water with washing.
Refills for the products arrive in small paper-based milk cartons that don’t get soggy and are recyle-able, so while there is a small amount of waste produced, it’s far easier to recycle than plastic.
Clean Conscience
cleancult also offsets their carbon footprint further by planting trees and investing in carbon offset programs to make them carbon free.
We have cleancult sets at our RV and at the cafe, and the fact that neither my kids or my customers are breathing in toxins is a comfort. The products work as well or better than their synthetic/plastic-packaged counterparts and if that’s not reason enough to give them a shot, I don’t know what is.
You can use the code SIMPLY for 15% off your first purchase from cleancult!
What’s your biggest pet peeve about cleaning? Have you been “greenwashed” before?
*This post was sponsored by cleancult and contains affilate links which means I was compensated for my work and will make a small commission from orders placed with my link. Thank you for supporting the brands that make SL&CO possible!*
