Life Without Plastic's compostable toothbrush, silk floss in a reusable glass jar, and baking soda in tin container on a wooden platform.

Baking soda for your cakes and your sweet tooth

Baking soda is a multi-purpose ingredient that has been in domestic use since ancient times. This alkaline chemical is also known as sodium bicarbonate or bicarbonate of soda. It’s a product that is easily available in supermarkets or corner stores, and very affordable.  Despite its name, baking soda has practical uses beyond baking and cooking.…

Plastic-Free Do-It-Yogurtself Recipe

A versatile and popular dairy product, yogurt is used around the world. With some overlap, its applications are varied across the Mediterranean, Central Asian, South-South East Asian and Eastern European culinary cultures. Yogurt can make a daily healthy snack or can be included in everyday cooking. The probiotics in yogurt are beneficial for gut health…

Scrub-a-dub-dub, natural sea sponge in the tub

We’re halfway through the fall season and the ground is beautifully carpeted with red, orange, and golden leaves. As winter approaches, trees start preparing by shedding their leaves. Similarly, our bodies need to adapt to the cold. And just like trees, our skin is the first to feel the dryness from harsh weather. You make…

beeswax bag with bread

Beeswax Plastic-free Luv

Ahhhh, beeswax! Can’t you just smell that rich, honeyish aroma when you read the word?! We’ll get more into why we love beeswax — and our beeswax wrap products. But let’s start with a substantive nod to the industrious beeswax makers, and acknowledge the power and importance of bees for life on Earth. A Triad of…

5 Alternatives to Plastic Oral Hygiene

You have all seen the pictures of toothbrushes found washed up on beaches. Every plastic toothbrush ever made still exists today, unless they were incinerated. So that means the chance of one of your toothbrushes washing up on some distant beach is high. When you add up all the oral hygiene products that you go…

Using Craft Tape to label bulk foods in bags.

Bulk Shopping For Beginners

Covid-19 disclaimer: we realize that many people are under different types of health restrictions and some bulk stores already have their products pre-bagged. As restrictions lift, we are seeing bulk stores start allowing customers to bring their own containers and begin to bag their products. A few years ago, when someone mentioned “bulk shopping” I…