There’s no denying the current zeitgeist around caring for the environment, even when searching online marketplaces. The topic is ubiquitous around the water cooler, at family gatherings, and within friend groups. Most of us make some effort on a daily basis to lower our environmental impact through the use of electric vehicles, recycling, eating vegan, reducing consumption or waste, or even simply taking our own reusable bags to the store when we shop.
Even though we want to do the right things, it’s often too tiring to cut through the greenwashing, scour ingredient lists, and cultivate reliable information about brands and products. That’s where sustainably-minded online marketplaces come into play. These are venues that have done the work for you (Like Top Eco Deals!). With curated collections of home goods, foods, beauty products, and other everyday items, you can shop without the time investment or the guilt.
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Me Mother Earth
I’m in love with everything this site has going on. Products are carefully selected so you can mindlessly shop without creating waste or unintentionally buying goods laced with nasty chemicals. The mission is to move away from single-use plastic one small swap at a time, making it one of the best online marketplaces for sustainable goods you’ll find anywhere.
From travel straws to reusable cutlery, a refillable and plastic-free dental floss holder, cleaning brushes made from natural materials, hair brushes, shopping bags, pet supplies, and laundry care, Me Mother Earth has a vegan and cruelty free product for that. Restock your home and buy for friends too with free shipping on orders over $55.
Fair Trade Winds
This is a beautiful site with a well-defined mission to support Fair Trade initiatives through the sale of handmade goods from around the world. It links to mainstream programs like Conscious Step Socks, but also connects customers with many unique items like baskets made from telephone wire through Bridge for Africa, handcrafted journals made from a variety of recycled materials, and Article 22 Jewelry, an initiative that helps clear landmines left behind after war.
The Wellest
Added to the mix of online marketplaces in 2021, The Wellest also added a storefront earlier this year on East Broadway in Long Beach, California. Both sites offer a collection of holistic products that have been personally vetted by founder Brandi Andres. You’ll find a selection of booze-free beverages (and an onsite lounge where guests can enjoy them), clean beauty collections, eco-home essentials, fair trade accessories, and more.
It’s a fun site to shop and Andres makes it easy to put together gift baskets of products you can feel good about. Loose leaf tea, chocolate, candles, linens, clothing, body soap, and many other items come together as a thoughtful present for like-minded people in your life (or for yourself!)
Brightly
Brightly is an online marketplace dedicated to ditching single-use products, toxic chemicals and wasteful packaging from our lives. It’s more than a platform for green products, it’s also an informational center for everything related to sustainability. It features blog articles, short-form videos on social media and an award-winning podcast called “Good Together.” Read our related Brightly Product Review here.
The products cover a wide range of household categories like food, kitchen, personal care, kids and baby, apparel and more. There’s something for every room in the house.
It carries products like the Nutr machine for making your own plant-based milk, reusable bowl covers, tea and latte sets and mixing and storage bowls. There are drink cups, a washable paper lunch bag, cheese huggers, market bags and aprons. For cooking there are silicone baking sheets and muffin pans. There’s even a super cool greeting card that doubles as a dishcloth. Each item is carefully designed to maximize sustainability without unnecessary pollution, plastic and packaging.
Portmanteau Home
If you’re looking for bespoke items centered in cultural diversity, Portmanteau Home is the place for you. This site is dedicated to honoring heritage and the environment through ethically handmade goods that highlight traditional elements of design from Korea, Japan, India, Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, Mexico and Guatemala.
Find pillow covers, t-shirts, aprons, napkin rings, tea towels, napkins, and wall art to add a colorful and cultural flair to every space in your home.
Package Free
Sometimes the company says it best. “At Package Free, we provide the most sustainable versions of products that you use daily. Our products use zero or minimal packaging and eliminate single-use plastic from your everyday routines. We also ship 100% plastic free.” It’s that simple.
At Package Free you’ll find everything from cleaning and laundry products to a countertop compost bin and even reusable toilet paper. Too far? If you’re not ready to ditch t.p. altogether, you can score some tree-free bamboo toilet tissues instead. You can also swap out tampons for a menstrual cup, disposal face pads for reusable ones, and plastic dental supplies for waste-free options.
Vitacost Online Marketplace
You may recognize the name already, but have you ever shopped the site? Vitacost is an online natural goods store with a focus on packaged grocery items, supplements, personal care, and household goods. It caters to specific dietary restrictions and also offers its own branded products.
You’ll find mainstream brands associated with the sustainability movement (Seventh Generation, and Ecos for example) as well as brands that may be less readily available. It nearly always offers some sort of discount on your order, whether it be a percentage off your entire cart or a deal on specific brands. We try to keep up with current savings in our coupon database, but you can also check the ‘Deals’ tab at the top of the Vitacost page.
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