There are areas of life that involve more plastic waste than others- namely hygiene. Shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste, makeup, etc all come in plastic bag, bottles, jars, etc in the name of cleanliness. Short of making your own (which is timely, requires ingredients sourcing, and years of tweaking for a truly great recipe), we're kind of at the mercy of the marketplace.
In our house, the mightyfix subscription we use made switching to glass bottles for household cleaners easy. Meliora is a low-waste company, with refills in paper tubing for laundry detergent and spray cleaner. I buy my handsoap in bulk and refill glass dispensers (reducing my plastic from multiple plastic bottles to 1 gallon jug a year), but when it came to toothpaste...
We tried all the toothpastes- traditional tubes with and without fluoride, jars of clay and baking soda based powders, charcoal tubes, etc. A lot of eco alternatives feel messy and dipping in powders doesn't feel super sanitary. The ones that come in traditional tubes still had a high waste factor. Enter toothpaste tablets. We tried the main brand, Bite., but there are other toothpaste tablet brands out there. These are preportioned pea sized toothpaste bits. You bite down and use a wet toothbrush and they get to foaming. Bite uses xylitol (like many mouthwashes) for killing bacteria, charcoal for scrubbing, cocamides for foaming action, and a touch of menthol for the minty clean feeling we're conditioned to. Their product ships in a glass jar the first time with refill packs that are not in a jar.
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