The Non-Toxic Living Guide: What to Swap in Every Room of Your Home
From Tupperware to toothpaste, we’re spring cleaning your life—without the overwhelm (but maybe a little sticker shock).
The Problem We All Wake Up To
What sucks is realizing that every cosmetic, cleaning product, laundry detergent, and piece of Tupperware is toxic.
What sucks even more is trying to piece together a puzzle of safe alternatives while every label screams “clean” but still has twelve ingredients you can’t pronounce.
That’s where this article comes in.
Not to scare you—but to guide you.
To make it easier to live in a way that doesn’t screw up your hormones or leave you sniffing endocrine-disrupting "spring breeze" air fresheners every time you pee.
Why This Matters
If you’ve ever felt brain fog, had skin breakouts, weird periods, bad sleep, or just smelled something in your home and thought, that can’t be good—you’re not crazy.
These chemicals mess with your biology. Small changes matter.
Even if all you do is swap your chapstick. That’s a win.
This is not about being perfect. It’s about getting your body back on your side.
What You’ll Get in This Guide
We’re going room by room—category by category—replacing toxic trash with legit products that won’t fry your insides.
Here’s the roadmap:
🥘 Kitchen Cleanout – Plastic, pans, dish soap, and food storage
🚿 Bathroom Reboot – Toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, lotions
🧺 Laundry + Cleaning – Detergents, dryer sheets (stop), multi-purpose sprays
💅 Beauty & Skincare – Makeup, sunscreen, moisturizer, chapstick
🥤 Supplements & Sips – Electrolytes, pre-workouts, greens powders, protein
🔗 Bonus Round – Fragrance, candles, air fresheners, random crap you forgot existed
A Quick Warning: It’s Not Cheap
Swapping everything at once is overwhelming and expensive. Don’t.
Just pick one thing. Start there.
This isn’t about fear—it’s about freedom.
From brain fog.
From hormonal acne.
From headaches every time you do laundry.
Think of it like spring cleaning… for your mitochondria.
🍳 KITCHEN CLEANOUT
Your stove is fine. Your Tupperware is not.
This is where we detox the heart of your home.
The kitchen is where a lot of sneaky toxins hide—plastic containers, forever-chemical pans, fake “green” soaps, tap water laced with contaminants.
No more.
Here’s how to clean it up without going insane.
🥘 Cookware
What to use:
✅ Our Place Always Pan — non-toxic, PFAS-free, beautiful.
✅ Cast iron or stainless steel if you want that ancestral flair.
What to ditch:
❌ Nonstick pans that use Teflon, aka forever chemicals. They mess with your hormones. For real.
🧼 Dish Soap + Cleaning Sprays
What to use:
✅ Dr. Bronner’s Sal Suds – The one soap to rule them all. Use it for dishes, counters, your floors, your sins.
✅ Seventh Generation Free & Clear – Their best non-toxic line.
✅ DIY: Mix baking soda, lemon, and organic Thieves oil and thank me later. Your kitchen will smell like a spa.
What to ditch:
❌ Dawn, Palmolive, Method, Mrs. Meyer’s “natural” lines — Greenwashed with synthetic fragrance and sulfates that linger on your hands (and plates).
🚰 Water Filter
If you’re still drinking straight from the tap… buddy.
Best options:
✅ AquaTru – Countertop and reverse osmosis. Affordable and reliable.
✅ Ophora Water – For when you’re ready to feel like your cells got baptized.
What to ditch:
❌ Brita filters — Barely scratch the surface. They don’t remove PFAS, chlorine, fluoride, or most of the bad stuff. You’re not filtering—you’re just delaying.
🍱 Food Storage
What to use:
✅ Glass containers with bamboo lids
✅ Stasher silicone bags — say goodbye to Ziplocks
✅ Mason jars, because you’re either crunchy or pretending you’re not
What to ditch:
❌ Plastic Tupperware and cling wrap — BPA, BPS, phthalates, microplastics. You're basically marinating your food in hormone-disruptors.
🚿 BATHROOM REBOOT
You’re lathering in endocrine disruptors. Let’s fix that.
This is where you’re most vulnerable.
Warm water opens up your pores, and then boom—you absorb every toxic chemical in your shampoo, toothpaste, body wash, and moisturizer.
Your skin eats this stuff. Your hormones feel it.
Let’s make sure it’s not messing you up.
🦷 Toothpaste
What to use:
✅ Dr. Bronner’s All-One Toothpaste — Fluoride-free, essential oils, tastes like minty integrity.
What to ditch:
❌ Crest, Colgate, or anything with fluoride, SLS, or “whitening” promises. They destroy your microbiome and mess with your minerals.
💦 Mouthwash (but smarter)
What to use:
✅ Living Libations Happy Gum Drops or Neem Enamelizer — This isn’t Listerine. It’s ancient and actually works. Freshens breath, supports gum health, and you won’t feel like you gargled chemicals.
What to ditch:
❌ Listerine and Scope. Alcohol-based, harsh, and they wipe out your oral microbiome like napalm.
🧴 Shampoo + Conditioner
What to use:
✅ Living Libations Seabuckthorn Shampoo & Shine On Conditioner — Your scalp will throw a party. No parabens, no sulfates, just plant alchemy.
What to ditch:
❌ Pantene, Head & Shoulders, Herbal Essences. Full of synthetic fragrance, parabens, and sulfates.
🚿 Body Wash
What to use:
✅ Dr. Bronner’s Liquid Castile Soap — Peppermint is a classic. Eucalyptus feels like a spa. You can literally use it for everything.
What to ditch:
❌ Anything with “fragrance” listed. That word = dozens of undisclosed chemicals. Axe, Old Spice, Bath & Body Works? Nah.
🧼 Skincare (Cleanser, Moisturizer, Serum)
What to use:
✅ Alitura Naturals — Created by a former model after a near-death experience. It’s clean, nutrient-rich, and Hollywood-tested.
What to ditch:
❌ Clinique, Neutrogena, or anything drugstore. Filled with petroleum, phthalates, and synthetic preservatives that age your skin.
👃 Deodorant
What to use:
✅ Primally Pure – Effective and smells amazing.
✅ Living Libations Poetic Pits – Yes, it’s $30. Yes, it’s worth it.
✅ Earth Mama Organics – Great for sensitive skin.
What to ditch:
❌ Aluminum-based deodorants. Linked to hormone disruption, Alzheimer’s, and clogged lymph nodes.
🧺 LAUNDRY + CLEANING
If it smells like “fresh breeze,” it’s probably toxic.
Most people’s homes smell like a chemical commercial. What you breathe in, your body absorbs.
That “clean” scent? It’s a lie.
Let’s swap fake freshness for real purity.
🧼 Laundry Detergent
What to use:
✅ Seventh Generation Free & Clear – No dyes, no synthetic fragrance.
✅ Branch Basics- My favorite
✅ Organic White vinegar – Add ½ cup to your load to naturally soften and disinfect.
What to ditch:
❌ Tide, Gain, or anything blue and gooey. Filled with optical brighteners, formaldehyde-releasing preservatives, and fragrance chemicals that linger on your skin all day.
🌬 Dryer Sheets
What to use:
✅ Branch Basics Wool Dryer Balls – Toss in a few drops of organic essential oil if you want a scent.
What to ditch:
❌ Bounce or any dryer sheet. They’re soaked in quats (quaternary ammonium compounds) and endocrine-disrupting fragrances. Straight-up lung irritants.
🧽 Surface + Bathroom Cleaners
What to use:
✅ Dr. Bronner’s Sal Suds — Dilute for all-purpose magic.
✅ Seventh Generation Disinfecting Spray
✅ DIY: Baking soda + vinegar + lemon + organic Thieves oil = power combo.
What to ditch:
❌ Windex, Clorox, Lysol. Harsh chemicals that damage respiratory health and pollute your indoor air.
🦠 Mold + Deep Cleaning
What to use:
✅ Force of Nature Cleaner — Electrolyzed water that kills 99.9% of bacteria and mold.
✅ Vinegar + essential oil blends for a natural antibacterial solution.
What to ditch:
❌ Bleach for everyday use. It’s effective but too harsh for your lungs and not always needed.
💅 BEAUTY & SKINCARE
Your makeup shouldn’t age you. Your lip balm shouldn’t poison you.
If you wouldn’t eat it, why are you putting it on your face?
Your skin absorbs 60–70% of what you put on it.
That’s why we’re keeping this section clean, bioactive, and beautifying without the hormone disruption.
🧴 Cleanser, Moisturizer, Serum
What to use:
✅ Alitura Naturals – This is the full stack: grass-fed colostrum, botanicals, and minerals that nourish your skin like a green smoothie for your face.
What to ditch:
❌ Neutrogena, Olay, CeraVe. Most have petroleum byproducts, endocrine disruptors, and preservatives that can age skin and irritate sensitive types.
💋 Lip Balm
What to use:
✅ Dr. Bronner’s Organic Lip Balm – Simple, clean, and edible. No sketchy waxes or fake scents.
What to ditch:
❌ Chapstick brand, Carmex, or anything flavored that dries your lips out more than it heals.
🌞 SPF
What to use:
✅ Living Libations Everybody Loves the Sunshine with Zinc – A sun harmonizer made with plant oils and mineral-based protection.
What to ditch:
❌ Banana Boat, Coppertone, or anything with oxybenzone or avobenzone. These are hormone disruptors that absorb into your bloodstream after one use.
💅 Makeup
What to use:
✅ Living Libations Tinted Balms & Highlighters – Simple, plant-based, and glowing.
✅ RMS Beauty, ILIA, and 100% Pure – Clean, non-toxic makeup for various skin tones and budgets.
What to ditch:
❌ Maybelline, MAC, Sephora house brands. They’re often loaded with talc, parabens, and synthetic dyes.
🥤 SUPPLEMENTS & SIPS
Your greens powder is lying to you. Your coffee is probably moldy.
You can’t out-supplement a bad lifestyle, but once you’ve cleaned the basics, high-quality stacks can level you up.
This isn’t about hype. It’s about third-party testing, bioavailability, and brands that don’t mess around.
⚡️ Electrolytes
What to use:
✅ Kaizen Naturals Electrolytes – No sugar, no filler, actual hydration support with full trace minerals.
What to ditch:
❌ LMNT (loaded with flavoring agents), Liquid IV, Gatorade. Sugar and fake salts ≠ real hydration.
💪 Protein Powder
What to use:
✅ Kion Protein – Clean, grass-fed, and third-party tested for heavy metals. Smooth, digestible, and high-integrity.
What to ditch:
❌ Vega, Orgain, Quest—anything you’d find at Costco. Most contain heavy metals, gums, and inflammatory fillers.
🌱 Greens Powder
What to use:
✅ Organifi Green Juice – Gentle, adaptogenic, and actually tastes good.
What to ditch:
❌ AG1. Overhyped, overpriced, under-delivered. Tons of people report gut issues.
☕️ Coffee
What to use:
✅ Danger Coffee by Dave Asprey – Mold-free, mineral-enriched, brain-boosting.
✅ Kion Coffee – Third-party tested for mold and toxins.
✅ French press or Chemex with a glass container to avoid plastic leaching.
What to ditch:
❌ Dunkin’, Starbucks, Keurig pods. Most commercial coffee is moldy and sprayed with pesticides. It’s like sipping glyphosate for breakfast.
💉 Collagen
What to use:
✅ Heart & Soil Grass-Fed Collagen or Bone Matrix – Organs > powders. But if you want powdered, use clean grass-fed versions only.
What to ditch:
❌ Anything untested or flavored with stevia, natural flavors, or filler gums.
🔗 BONUS ROUND: AIR, SCENT & LIGHT
You shouldn’t need to detox your home from your own home.
🌬 Air Purifiers
What to use:
✅ Jaspr – The best we’ve found.
✅ AirDoctor – More affordable, still great.
What to ditch:
❌ Plug-in air fresheners, scented filters, or anything masking real toxins with fake lavender.
🛏 Mattress
What to use:
✅ Samina – Breathable, grounded, toxin-free sleep.
What to ditch:
❌ Memory foam made with flame retardants, off-gassing petroleum, and mystery foam cores.
🚿 Shower Filter
What to use:
✅ Aquasana Shower Filter – Affordable and highly effective.
What to ditch:
❌ Tap water straight to your skin. It’s often full of chlorine and metals.
🕯 Candles
What to use:
✅ Beeswax or coconut-based candles with essential oils.
What to ditch:
❌ Paraffin wax candles (hello, petrochemical fumes) and anything labeled “fragrance.”
💡 Light
What to use:
✅ Bon Charge Bulbs – Daylight and red light options.
✅ Use f.lux or Iris on screens to block blue light.
✅ OLED screens are best if you’re shopping for a new monitor or TV.
What to ditch:
❌ Blue LED overheads and screens at night. They ruin your circadian rhythm and disrupt melatonin.
Final Word:
You don’t have to change everything overnight.
Swap one thing—just your toothpaste or your deodorant. That’s how it starts.
The more you replace, the clearer your skin, your mind, your hormones, and your home will feel.
You’re not crazy for caring about this. You’re just ahead of the curve.
Thank you guys so much.
Love you.
I’m grateful to my partners who create amazing health & wellness products.
Disclaimer. I am not a doctor. This is just some random stuff I learned on the internet. Pretend it’s a story. Ok bye.
Lots of great swaps here. Big fan of KION!!
This could be my most cherished piece yet! Truly thank you 🙏🏼