We’ve been doing that for a while now. It’s not cheap (read: way more expensive than buying throwaway containers), but we think it’s worth it.
Another thing we try to do is to buy strips instead of liquid stuff (laundry detergent, floor cleaner, toilet bowl cleaner etc).
Concentrates are the way. I get my handwash in powder form. Half a kilogram makes 10 liters of very good liquid handwash. Same for floor cleaner, I just buy pine oil with some additives. A single 1L bottle makes 40-60L of very good floor cleaner, all biodegradable. Buy shampoo concentrate/base, dilute 3x to make very good, sulfate-free shampoo. And it saves just ridiculous amounts of money.
Do you have any guides or resources you use for getting started with them?
This works for fruit juices, too. Even most ‘real’ juices are created from fruit concentrates. You can just cut out the middleman and get the concentrates directly. Even including the sugar/invert sugar you gotta put in, it costs less than half as much. And you control the amount of sugar you want. I use them extensively.
Just search for concentrates or soap bases on amazon. They all have guides on how to prepare them. I usually also just look up the main/active ingredients in the products I use and just order that.
My absolute favorite is Sal’s suds. Bought a gallon well over a year ago and I use it as my everyday spray cleaner, laundry detergent, and dish soap. All at different concentrations. Only 1/3 done with the gallon!
The only downside is that it solidifies somewhat in the cold. I think the everyday spray is diluted enough that it doesn’t
i’ve been using a service called skipper (australian) for a while and it’s great! i primarily started because i wanted high quality soap dispensers rather than plastic crap, but it’s great to have a bulk amount of refills available too
they’re all little pellets (eg hand soap is a ~1x1x2cm rectangle) that fizz and mix when you add water, and all the packaging is compostable in home compost
being dry ingredients means that a truck isn’t transporting water around; it’s just the bare minimum: the concentrated soap solid
it’s nice to have most of my day to day cleaning products covered in 1 place
they’re also some of the nicest fragrances for soaps that i’ve come across (also they offer unscented for some things like hand soap: i use this in the kitchen when i want to smell food not soap). their laundry sheets are particularly nice imo. i usually hate the smell of laundry detergent
Their new dishwashing gel is the absolute tits as well
