I gave a thumbs-up to Brandless — the online grocery store where everything is $3 — after I tried out its line of conscientious beauty products that launched last August. The store has been steadily adding to its inventory, and just yesterday launched a collection of non-toxic cleaning products that I thought were worth checking out as well.
Now. Cleaning supplies are my least-ever favorite category of things to buy, but this got me one a little more excited than usual — after all, the collection includes a balsamic greens and grapefruit-scented dish soap. Ooh.
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The 7 non-toxic cleaning products from Brandless include basics like lemon verbena surface cleaning wipes, cucumber mint glass cleaner, dish soap (in lilac and greens and grapefruit), and a multi-surface cleaner.
There’s also tub and tile cleaner (you know, the fun stuff) and toilet bowl cleaner, all scented like orange and lily of the valley. Plus there’s a granite and stone cleaner, something you don’t think of as having a scent like lavender.
And yes, I keep mentioning their scents, because when I’m up to my elbows in toilet scrubbing or slime-on-the-wall-removal-duty, I appreciate that the air I’m breathing isn’t thick with chemical smell. Or chemicals.
Definitely not my counter
I find that all the product samples they sent (except the granite and stone cleaner, which I didn’t try because we don’t have marble countertops) are perfectly on par with the high-end non-toxic cleaning products you find at health foods stores or fancy pharmacies: fantastic for cleaning up all kinds of day-to-day messes from table spills, to tile grime, dirty dishes, and glass smears.
As for the aforementioned caked-on slime on the wall? Well, sadly, I had no luck there.
But in fairness, nothing has worked, because this mess evidently requires a sand blaster and a new coat of paint. Sigh.
While Brandless cleaning products have similar non-toxic and cruelty-free claims as similar products, the main difference is the price. You can get the entire collection of 8 Brandless cleaning products in total for just $24.
Wow.
I’d easily spend two or three times that elsewhere.
So yes, I can see myself purchasing more when my samples run out. Brandless cleaning products are effective, they’re non-toxic and dye-free, they smell good, they’re EPA Safer Choice Certified, and they cost next to nothing.
Which is especially important to me right now, because apparently I need to save up to buy a sand blaster.
Thanks to Brandless for providing sample products to CMP for review consideration. Find the whole lineup of non-toxic cleaning products at the Brandless site — and get $1 flat rate shipping on your first order.
I was very excited about the Brandless products until I looked at the ingredients list. They are all, “proprietary” in other words, secret. Then perfume and dyes. So in the end the consumer has no idea what they are spraying in their home. PASS!