Do you want to find a gift with a difference? Then why not choose something that helps protect our planet! If you are looking for sustainable gift ideas, check out this gift guide full of eco-friendly items to fill your (bamboo) stockings with…
Eco Clothes
Living Life Our Way Teemill Store
Living Life Our Way’s sustainable clothing is made from 100% organic cotton, in a wind powered factory. Designs are printed using low waste, cutting edge technology. Furthermore, everything is ethically made and fully traceable from start to finish. Sustainable, ethical and good quality too. Choose from bags, sweatshirts, hoodies, tees and vests in a range of various designs, including charity tees, or customise your own.
I can’t mention my own teemill designs without also including the Rapanui brand itself. There is an brilliant selection of eco clothing for both men and women on the site. I have several tees and hoodies from there; it is my go-to place when in need of new items.
I have written previously about the range of bamboo socks at Sock Shop. They are really soft and comfortable, with a great selection of designs for men, women and kids.
Beauty Gifts
Beauty items are often a popular gift idea. However, many are not so good for the planet. But there are some lovely eco-friendly brands to choose from! Here are a few great choices…
Bamboo Reusable Makeup Remover Pads
EcoPanda have two sets of reusable bamboo makeup remover pads to choose from. The first set comes with the pads, laundry bag and a cute little bamboo storage tub to keep them in. I was kindly sent this item to review and include in this guide. Whilst I don’t wear makeup often myself personally and try to remove it with just water when I do, mascara and heavier make up can be tough to remove without pads and cleanser (or worse, wipes!) so these reusable ones will come in handy!
The second set includes pads, laundry bag and face cloth. EcoPanda have offered a lucky reader the chance to win one of these lovely little sets!
Enter via rafflecopter below. UK residents only. Ends 29/12/19. T&Cs apply.
Don’t forget to enter the other giveaway below too! Good luck!
Net Zero Co are a truly environmentally-conscious brand with a brilliant selection of products. They ship entirely plastic free; all of their packaging is 100% recyclable and home compostable, and sealed with paper tape. They also plant a tree with every order. Amongst the bathroom/ beauty items available in their online store is an awesome bamboo hairbrush with bamboo ball tipped bristles. Bamboo has natural antibacterial properties so helps keep your hair and scalp healthy too!
They also have fab stocking fillers like a bamboo toothbrush set with charcoal infused bristles. This set of 4 has a unique wave design on each handle so you don’t get mixed up. I love this idea; simple but effective!
Net Zero Co have kindly offered a bamboo toothbrush and bamboo hairbrush as a prize to one lucky winner too! Enter this beauty bundle giveaway via rafflecopter below. Ends 29th December 2019. Worldwide entry. T&Cs apply.
Don’t forget to enter the other giveaway above too! Good luck!
Food Storage
Net Zero Co also have an excellent range of food storage and reusable cutlery too. For example, this 1200ml steel bento box with removable divider is airtight and leakproof so is great for picnics, long journeys or school/ work lunches. The handy divider can be removed if a larger space is needed. This munchie box also comes in different sizes and Net Zero Co sell some handy little pots that fit nicely into them too!
Annual Memberships
Annual memberships to a place of interest are a nice choice of gift. For example, a local well- loved attraction, or a National Trust membership. Another option is an annual membership to environmentally- conscious charities. Here are a couple of my favourites, but there are many more of course…
The Wildlife Trusts do fantastic work, and annual membership is a lovely gift for eco-friendly nature lovers.
SAS works tirelessly to campaign for cleaner environments and supports the development of sustainable communities. Membership to this charity makes a great gift!
Salad Kits
The Crop Club
These ‘grow your own’ kits are perfect for even small spaces and do their bit for the environment and sustainability. They include; 6 varieties of seeds, compostable cardboard and PLA pots, peat free compost discs, palm leaf trays for your pots, wooden spoon plant markers, bottletop waterer (80% recycled plastic, made in the UK) and coffee sack planter bags.
Do you have sustainable gift ideas? Please share them with me! I’d love to hear them.
*This is a collaborative post. EcoPanda and Net Zero Co sent me the products in exchange for inclusion and offered the giveaway prizes to one lucky winner. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
What lovely, responsible products. I would love so reusables to help lower my plastic waste.
I would like to win the prize and not need cotton wool to wipe my face.
l love Eco panda they a have so many great ideas for eco friendly lives
Really nice items. Happy New Year
amazing products, great for the environment too , would love to win these.
I love these ideas, they would be lovely for my son and daughter in law who are trying very hard to eliminate plastic in their lives!
lovely giveaway thanks for the chance xx
It’d be great to try all the items listed here! Fantastic comp thank you!
I would love to try these products and see if they work for me!
Great products to help and be kind to the environment!
The T-shirts and hoodies look great and at reasonable prices too. We definitely need to be more aware of the sustainability aspect when buying new things x
Try your best. I wish everyone would just do their bit , whatever that may be instead of saying that whatever they do won’t make a change.
These would be great for our girls by also saving the environment
I would love these eco goodies, we all need to make changes to recycle and reuse more.
I already use a bamboo toothbrush, but the makeup remover pads look a great idea. I’d love to win your prize!
Lovely giveaway so useful
This would be perfect for my daughter, I would like it to
Great prize – thanks for the competition. Good luck everyone.
Terrific ideas there. If everyone made just a few changes each year to avoid waste it would make such a difference.
These look fab! I have been using muslin cloths for a while but dedicated makeup removers would be very useful.
What great ideas for saving the planet. Everybody should do there bit. Every little helps
A great selection of products that I would love to try
What a lovely giveaway! I would love to win!
Loving your blog thanks so much for introducing me 🙂
Happy new year!
Fantastic eco selection of gifts. I found a fantastic company who sell cosmetics in bamboo casing too. They make great gifts also.
I am expecting a baby in 2020 and I’m really considering where I can reduce our impact on the environment, so this would help a lot.
some great ideas for gifts or for yourself
Some wonderful ideas here, the makeup removers look so soft – love the bag to wash them in too
i love all of your ideas in this post. We are finding that we are definitely becoming more aware of the things we can do – for example we tried to avoid too much “consumption” over christmas – both in terms of gifts, food etc and also eco-friendly ways of wrapping etc. These products in the giveaway sound really good.
Cool completely different never seen one these before and want to know more about it and would be great for my mum she would love this made of bamboo different.
lovely giveaway the shorts look very comfy
I’m so impressed with the amount of eco friendly products on the market just now – these make up pads look great!
I often give gifts of plants, which I have grown from seeds – either for gardens, but also for the house, as some plants clean pollution from homes x
I am very eco conscious these days so always like finding out about new companies and innovations to get us doing more
Count me in, would love to win this
I would love to try these – anything that is good for the planet is good
I love all these prizes. I started going plastic free last year and I’m going to continue this in 2020, I’ve got more changes to make.
Great giveaway love bamboo products
This bundle is great, I’ve been trying to make one eco swap a month and it’s going well but theres a long way to go as yet.
I would love to try this wonderful prize. I think this is a step on the right direction for getting rid of plastic
I’m trying to use more and more eco friendly products and these would r great
What a super prize – I think that more and more people are trying to be eco-conscious these days.
great giveaway – I love bamboo
A brilliant prize, so different too
I have not tried these before but they look like a great product.
The makeup remover pads would be perfect for my daughter who is trying to cut down on using cosmetic wipes.
I’m trying to reduce my plastic and it’s my new year’s resolution for 2020. This would help me on my zero waste journey!
that sounds lovely! great giveaway thank you for the chance
i always try and do my bit for the enviroment this is perfect
This would be great for those nights out when I’m so tired and need to remove my make up without taking ages!!
Love the way we are now exploring other options that are available to us
ima lways on the look out for ways too reduce my waste these products sound fantastic id love to try them!
I’ve been think about being even more eco friendly lately & I do cleanse my face every night with disposable cotton wool pads, so switching to these would be great.
Some great ideas there. I’ve already swapped out a lot of things to avoid plastic but there’s always more I can do.
I am trying to become more eco friendly in my purchases and this is a great article
These would be lovely to give as a gift, especially as this really is the season of waste!
This is a lovely giveaway and very useful and eco friendly
Some great ideas here for all of us who are trying to live a more sustainable life. I was only thinking this morning about the number of cotton pads I use, and wondering what was available to help me to reduce my consumption, so this prize would be perfect.
Oh, I would love to win a make up remover set…
I love all of the sustainability of these products and the socks look fab
Lots of inspiration – will make the PERFECT eco gift for my brother
This would really come in handy for me.
Looks like a fantastic bundle which i would love to win!
This looks great would love to win – love that is is reusable
would love top win for my daughter thankyou
I’ve been trying to reduce my carbon footprint and the bamboo gift ideas are perfect.
would love to win this i need to be more eco x
some great advice there; we could all really do with following some of the guidance written above
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So many good ideas for Christmas gifts, I hate how it can become an exceptionally wasteful time of year with all the excess consumption on every level!
Perfect for the other half 😀 x
Some great ideas. Thanks for sharing.
Love all these gift ideas. Giving something sustainable is such a nicer feeling – giving to someone else and giving back!
ideal for my future son in law who takes his yoga seriously
The Salad kits look fantastic
perfect for my hubby
Great gift guide, lots of great ideas. Thank you xxx
a few god ideas in the guide there that I may give more thought to
great gift guide, gave me some good ideas
Thanks for the intro to this brand. As each year passes, I try harder to be a responsible consumer. Every little helps.
nice prize
Great competition, thanks.
I’ve just started to do yoga so these shorts would be great
These would be great for my husband as he likes to wear shorts after his shower
These ideas are great, we need a few coffee mugs cos sick of the disposable ones killing the planet x
The shorts would be just the ticket for OH, he has started yoga this year and finding it really helpful for his bad back.
FAB IDEAS ON THE GIFT GUIDE AND THESE SHORTS ARE SO WELL MADE PLUS COMFY I SHOULD IMAGINE
My hubby is always looking for comfy shorts for working out in, these would be fab
Loving the STYLE
These would look so good on my husband!
Nice Prize.
Great to go Eco Friendly gift ideas.
I like the soap selection and the salad kit
What a fab prize to win
I like that they are made for all body shapes and types of workout.
fab fab fab!
fingers crossed x
grow your own is ideal for my husband as he really loves gardening
fab giveaway
I could so relax in these classic shorts’
Fab prize. They look great
Think these would be great for my yoga classes
These shorts look so comfy for a man1
these would be perfect for my hubby