The Eco-Friendly Shops In The UK To Check Out Now
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Make eco-shopping easy, with this guide to the best eco-friendly shops in the UK. Keep your eyes peeled for discount codes to help your money go further.
Demand for green goods is growing. Once a very limited niche market, the eco market has grown immensely, particularly in the last couple of years.
Analysts have linked this growth to lifestyle changes, including the pandemic and the climate crisis. Both of these interrelated crises have seen skyrocketing demand from shoppers for secondhand clothes and sustainable furniture, greener gadgets, and plant-based foods.
Retailers have kept pace with this demand, and there is now a veritable shed-load of shops out there catering to the ethical and eco-friendly consumer. But where to start?
The Best Eco-Friendly Shops In The UK To Check Out Now
To help make your search for environmentally friendly goods easier, I’ve rounded up my favourite eco shops in the UK. These cater to a range of different values. From shops specialising in vegan products to those specialising in organic products or plastic-free products.
You’ll also find shops selling for specific products, such as books, eco-friendly makeup, and more. Dig in, and be sure to bookmark this post for future reference!
Ethical Superstore
Ethical Superstore – one of the original ethical and eco-friendly shopping stalwarts – sells a huge range of eco-friendly products. From food and drink products to cleaning products, as well as clothes, toys, health and beauty products, and so much more.
To avoid being overwhelmed by choice, Ethical Superstore allows you to shop by product ethics. Here you can filter products by a huge number of values to find the products that suit you.
Whether that’s fair trade, organic, plastic-free, palm oil-free, vegan, made in the UK, or something else, you can easily hone in on the exact eco-products that match your needs and values.
What’s also to love is that in keeping with Ethical Superstore’s values, your package arrives quickly and is packaged in recycled and repurposed materials.
Bookshop.org
When it comes to buying books online, Bookshop.org is the place to go. This online bookstore’s mission is to financially support local, independent bookshops.
On Bookshop.org you can shop at your local bookshop, or shop from a specific bookshop – such as Lighthouse, a queer-owned and women-led independent community bookshop based in Edinburgh. Your chosen bookshop will then receive the full profit from your order.
If you don’t have a specific store in mind that you’d like to support, then your order will contribute to an earnings pool that will be evenly distributed among independent bookshops. In fact, Bookshop.org gives away over 75% of its profit margin to stores, publications, and authors.
What’s more, Bookshop.org is a certified B-Corp. This means that Bookshop.org meets the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose.
Bower Collective
Bower Collective is a one-stop eco-friendly shop, selling a huge range of sustainable household and personal care items.
Specialising in refillable laundry, cleaning, health and beauty products, and stylish refill dispensers, these offer an eco-friendly way to live a low-impact life.
To help avoid waste, every Bower order arrives with a pre-paid envelope so that you can return your empty refill pouches for guaranteed reuse and recycling.
As well as offering refillable products, you’ll also find a whole host of eco-friendly products – from everything health and wellness to sustainable items for your pets, and more.
For peace of mind, Bower Collective has created the Bower Standard, which all of its products must meet. Through this standard, you can be assured that all of its sustainable products look good, feel good, reduce waste, and are sustainable and effective.
What’s more, every purchase made also helps the Marine Conservation Society protect 1m² of endangered seagrass.
Oxfam Online
The most budget-friendly and eco-friendliest option is to shop secondhand. Thankfully, Oxfam Online makes shopping second-hand a breeze.
Here you can pick up a multitude of items – from ladies’, gents, and kids’ clothing and accessories – to books, music, collectables, and more.
As well as its massive secondhand inventory, you can also shop its eco-friendly Sourced by Oxfam range online. This is a collection of eco-friendly cleaning products, fairtrade food items, ethical gifts, and more that help you live more sustainably.
What’s to love is that profits from secondhand and Sourced By Oxfam purchases all support Oxfam’s work, helping to alleviate global poverty.
Green Tulip
Green Tulip is on a mission to make ethical shopping simple and transparent. As such, you’ll find carefully chosen products – selected for their positive impact on people and the planet – from over a hundred ethical brands.
And with everything from eco-friendly homeware to sustainable gifts, it’s a great one-stop shop for all your eco needs.
What’s especially to love about Green Tulip is how open it is about each product it stocks. You’ll find detailed information about where things come from, what they’re made of, and which ethical or eco values they uphold – whether that’s fair labour, plastic-free materials, or recycled content. This makes it easy to shop in line with your own values.
Get 10% off your first order when you sign up for the Green Tulip mailing list.
Wild & Stone
Online store Wild & Stone started out when founder Kat became frustrated with a plastic toothbrush in plastic packaging. Wanting to do things better, Kat has been able to grow things into a full eco-friendly online shop offering stylish alternatives to single-use plastics.
All the products sold have been carefully made and sourced, creating minimal social and environmental impact on their journey from raw materials to the consumer. All products are bespoke to Wild & Stone, and have been adapted over time based on testing and customer feedback.
From bamboo toothbrushes for adults and kids to beeswax food wraps, kitchen cloths, reusable straws, and household brushes, its range is large and ever-growing.
&Keep
&Keep – a Dorset-based company – sells a wide range of carefully curated, eco-friendly, reusable, and sustainable products.
And even better, most of the products that &Keep in stock are plastic-free. Where there is plastic used in a product, &Keep ensures it’s the BPA-free kind and that its use is kept to an absolute minimum.
This moratorium on plastic also extends to &Keep’s own business practices. All of its packaging is always completely plastic-free, and recycled materials are used where possible.
&Keep also ensures all of its products are cruelty-free and free from animal testing. And, as an added plus point, &Keep also regularly donates to environmental causes and charitable organisations that work far beyond its reach.
💷 Sign up for the &Keep newsletter and receive 10% off your first order. Alternatively, use the discount code andkeep5 at the checkout for 5% off your order.
Jungle Culture
Specialising in zero-waste essentials, Jungle Culture sells reusable bamboo straws and cutlery, coconut bowls, wooden cups, safety razors, shaving soaps, and more.
This impressive range of zero-waste products is all ethically sourced, sustainably made, and 100% plastic-free.
Jungle Culture also takes sourcing products seriously. As such, its team regularly visits every production site to make sure that all of the products it offers are vegan-friendly, cruelty-free, and ethically made by artisans that are treated fairly.
Get 15% off your first order when you sign up for the Jungle Culture mailing list.
Big Green Smile
For eco-friendly household products and toiletries, another great online shop to try is Big Green Smile.
From make-up and beauty products to natural cleaners and baby care, Big Green Smile is one of the biggest online retailers of natural, organic, cruelty-free, and eco-friendly products in the UK.
I stop by Big Green Smile particularly when I’m looking to buy bulk products, such as washing-up liquid or soap. I find the prices really reasonable, and there are often some great promotions running.
Natural Collection
Natural Collection is committed to helping you to find products that match your ethical values. As such, you can choose from a wide range of fair trade, organic, and eco-friendly products from its online shop.
Nestled amongst its packed shelves, you’ll find fairtrade and organic groceries, energy-efficient devices, and unique ethical gifts that directly benefit the people who made them.
You’ll also find products from leading ethical brands, as well as from independent traders and producers from across the globe.
Conscious of the fact that aligning your purchases with your beliefs can be confusing, Natural Collection carefully vets any new products before adding them to its store. This involves researching the brand and product’s ethical credentials, as well as researching any potential questions that customers may have about the brand/product.
Etsy
Etsy – the online craft marketplace – may not be the first place that comes to mind for shopping for eco-friendly products. However, this online marketplace is bursting at the seams with green products made by independent crafters and makers.
I’ve previously put together a guide on zero-waste and plastic-free shops on Etsy, but there is a green version of almost every product imaginable on Etsy. From products made from upcycled waste materials to locally sourced natural materials and more. Plus, your purchase supports independent makers.
Abel & Cole
Finally, if you are based in England and looking for organic fruit and vegetable box deliveries, then hotfoot it to Abel & Cole.
As well as fresh fruit and veg, you can also add fresh goods and store cupboard staples to your order. Abel & Cole will then drop your ethical food delivery to your door on the same day each week in returnable cardboard boxes. Sustainability made simple!
Abel & Cole champions organic, wild, innovative, sustainably-grown food, so you can be sure your food is top quality. Abel & Cole is also all about reduced packaging. For any packaging you can’t reuse or recycle, Abel & Cole will collect it to ensure it does get recycled.
More Eco Resources
Looking for more eco resources? I’ve got lots!
- Try these sustainable alternatives to Amazon if you’re looking to reduce your reliance on this internet giant.
- Try these ethical alternatives to Sports Direct.
- And try my guide to ethical shopping on the high street.
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