#ad This year, we’re really into starting things with a clean slate. Perhaps, you’ve joined us in our goal to declutter this month. Maybe, you’ve cleared some stuff out, recently, and ended up recycling a bunch of plastic items. Ever wonder if you could avoid buying and tossing that much junk? Have you noticed all the plastic items around you and asked yourself if there’s another way? Were a great many of those items toiletry and home cleaning supplies?
If you’re looking for another way, consider Good Bottle Refill Shop. We cannot think of a better place to say goodbye to ugly, bad for the environment, single-use plastic containers. Instead, say hello to lovely glass and metal replacements.
They are a refill shop. For those of you asking “What is a refill shop? How does that work?” It’s actually very simple. Instead of constantly rebuying throw-away containers with product in it, you re-use your containers to only buy the products. For instance, rather than buying yet another plastic bottle of hand soap, you would wash the old bottle, and refill it with more hand soap. Where? At Good Bottle Refill Shop. Stay with me. You take your empty container to this sort of shop. You or an attendant will weigh the container, refill it with more hand soap, then weigh and pay. You only pay the weight of the product, not the container. You may use any container you want.
However, their containers are aesthetically pleasing and made of either glass or metal, if you’re house is prone to dropping things. Either make your eco footprint much lighter. You know, because of the children. Believe me when I tell you that replacing plastic with aluminum or clear bottles really elevates a space. We have had their matching amber bottles with matching labels in our bathroom for some years now and are still going strong. They give me a relatively strange amount of joy.
The added benefit of this refill store is that they deliver! So, when you’re nearly done with your re-usable shampoo bottle and other refills, you place an order with them to swap the empties for full ones. All you do is rinse them out, stick them in a bag on your doorstep, and on the day of delivery, you get full containers. Think of it as a modern day milk delivery service for these products.
They refill a wide range of eco-friendly products. If you, like me, are someone who appreciates the Environmental Working Group’s Healthy Living app, that helps you find healthy products, you’ll appreciate the selections here. You may want to start with their most popular products which are laundry detergent, dish soap, and hand soap. However, there’s a wide assortment of products they refill. They range from castile soap to wood polish to kids body wash to pecans. Yes, they even carry pantry items such as French lentils, gluten-free spiral pasta, coffee beans from Paper Plane Coffee Co., and a lot more.
In addition to the refill options, they carry reusable facial rounds, Meow Meow tweet deodorant sticks, Swedish dish cloths, Unpaper towels by Marley’s Monsters, all purpose spray tablets that dissolve in water, and the list goes on. Ready to hop on the bar shampoo train?
Imagine how many bottles of these products you buy, use, and toss each year. Refilling here would make you feel that you are doing some good in this world. Good. As in Good Bottle Refill Shop.
Bonus: they are located in Maplewood’s General Store, which is a co-retail space that includes a gift shop, cheese shop, a cocktail shop with NJ’s largest selection of alcohol free beverages, and a shop selling tea and music. Why not? Before or after shopping, grab some coffee and a pastry and sit on their cute bench to think about what you’ll get the next time you visit.
Stop by and tell them Macaroni KID Summit Short Hills SOMA sent ya!
Good Bottle Refill Shop is located at 1875 Springfield Ave., Maplewood, NJ.
I have been compensated for this review. However, all thoughts and opinions are my own.
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