Just think how many containers shampoo, toothpaste , and cleaning products you have used in your lifetime — Yikes!
By switching over to reusable personal care products, you can make a significant reduction in your waste stream. Check out the shops below to find reusable products, and products with minimal single-use plastic, that can help you work towards a zero waste lifestyle!
Replaced Plastics
Replaced Plastics features affordable and sustainable alternatives to personal care and home essentials you need on a regular basis. Started by young environmentalists based in Kailua, Replaced Plastics has a range of necessities at an accessible price range. A portion of their sales is donated back to us to help build the mission of Zero Waste O’ahu.
Keep It Simple
With a mission of simplifying zero waste living, this storefront is based on Honolulu and features a range of zero waste items. Keep It Simple has a wide ranger of zero waste products, including a refill station for soaps, shampoos, cleaning detergents, and more.
Pono Home Essesntials
This line of sustainably sourced and healthy products is packaged with an eye toward zero waste living. With Pono Home Essentials, you can enjoy organic personal care products with no eco-guilt: you may never have to throw away another plastic bottle. Every purchase includes a $2 per bottle deposit that you receive back when you return the (BPA-free) bottles to us for cleaning and refilling.
They pay for shipping to and from your home, and you sit back, relax, and enjoy a zero waste life. Easy! Follow their Instagram to find upcoming pop up shops or check out their online store below. Enter Code ZWO5 at check out for a 5% discount and Zero Waste Oʻahu will get a 5% donation fromh each purchase.
Protea Zero Waste Store
Inviting people to do their part in taking care of our Earth through a zero-waste lifestyle. By reducing one’s waste through eliminating plastics, buying in bulk, and supporting natural products we can lessen the negative environmental impacts associated with our consumption. Protea is Hawaii’s first zero waste refill store where you can bring your own container, or purchase a container, and fill up with as much product as you want.
They offer natural beauty and household cleaning products as well as items to help live a more waste free lifestyle. Follow their Instagram and visit their shop in Kailua, HI or shop online.
R. Planet
R. Planet aims to encourage and incorporate the use of sustainable products in other's homes and lifestyles. R Planet is founded by college students Raina and Rhema Wong, who are also twin sisters and share a passion for sustainability. Their mission is to create a positive impact on R Planet.
By providing others with these products, they are sharing our passion for living compassionately and considerately. They want to make sustainable living convenient, affordable, and attainable. R. Planet carries a wide variety of zero waste home and lifestyle products that are all plastic-free, waste-free, cruelty-free! Follow their Instagram to find upcoming pop up shops or shop online at the site below.
ʻĀINA Life
'ĀINA life is a local brand providing Reusable Produce and Bulk Bags and Bamboo Toothbrushes to help make simple switches to reduce plastic waste and encourage Malama 'ĀINA, to respect the land that provides both physically and spiritually. Ashley and Franco Martinez started 'ĀINA life, after seeing the impact of plastic here in Hawaiʻi and realizing the opportunity to make a difference.
Follow them on Instagram to stay up to date with the latest products and deals. Click here to find a store nearby with ʻĀINA Life products or shop online.
Indigo Elixirs
An apothecary for the body, born from botanicals in Mānoa Valley of Oʻahu, Hawaii. Formulated by a licensed herbalist, Deanna Rose Ahigian, L.Ac & Dipl.OM, sources local plants from farmers across the islands and from her own garden to create beauty & medicines that are as fresh as they are potent. Each herbal offering is cultivated consciously, infused with exceptionally clean ingredients and delivered in sustainable packaging.
By working with diverse and abundant island flora, every Elixir captures a hint of Hawaii's lush exotic essence. Follow them on Instagram to stay up to date with the latest products and deals
Every Day Better by Green Meadows
Old Fashioned Sensibilities with a Modern Mission. Unlike online stores, you can walk in to a wide variety of sustainable merchandise that come from many unique makers and places around the world. Their priority is to offer plastic-free alternatives to lifestyle items, emphasizing natural materials and aesthetic appeal.
Most of the companies that they work with are women or family owned and operated and chose to use compostable, recycled, or upcycled materials to package their products. Follow them on Instagram and visit their shop at 1223 Koko Head Ave. suite 2 Honolulu, HI.
Onekea Bros. General Store
Onekea Bros. General Store helps people to live aloha ‘āina through better consumer choices.
We sell products that help consumers enjoy a sustainable lifestyle: zero waste consumables that don't contain chemicals or artificial ingredients and reusable, high-vibe home goods that can be returned to the earth when they are no longer of use. As much as possible, our products are crafted here in Hawaiʻi.