How Do You Reduce Plastic in the Bathroom?

Swap daily-use items as they run out — toothbrush, bar formats, refillables. Here's the easy approach.
By Better Human Goods
1 min read

Reducing plastic in the bathroom follows the same easy-wins logic as the kitchen: target the items you use daily and replace them as they run out, rather than overhauling everything at once. Good starting swaps include a metal or bamboo-handled toothbrush, bar-format or low-plastic personal care, a refillable or glass container where practical, and avoiding heavily synthetic-fragranced products if you prefer to.

A shower filter is another common bathroom upgrade for people focused on water quality — a simple add-on rather than a plastic swap, but part of the same "better basics" mindset. As always, this is about sensible, low-effort defaults, not perfection or fear. Pick a couple of daily-use items, choose better-material versions when they wear out, and leave it there. More in our free-from standard.

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