Eco Friendly Cleaning Tools That Truly Have Come Full Circle - Product Review

by Janis Brett Elspas

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For years,  individuals like actor turned environmentalist and author Ed Begley have been professing about the green home lifestyle.   Thankfully, partially as a result of such activists, eco friendly green cleaning supplies without harmful chemicals are getting easier to find and progressively, more affordable to buy.

Now, as a new generation embraces the cause to save our planet, still more innovations have emerged.  A case in point is Full Circle Home, a New York company co-founded by two young people, Heather Tomasetti and Tal Chitayat, which now is successfully marketing a new category of green, stylish and functional tools for housekeeping unlike any seen before.

Answering consumer demand for cleaning tools that are not only eco-friendly, but quality-made, functional and good looking too, Full Circle offers a comprehensive line of products made from sustainable and renewable resources, ranging from natural bristle blend scrub brushes and plant-based fiber sponges -- both with sleek, bamboo handles -- to pot scrubbers that fully biodegrade.  Currently, the company's ecologically responsible household products include 17 different cleaning brushes, sponges and cloths plus -- added just recently -- several make your own natural cleaning solution kits.  

One of the more unique things about these eco household products is that the consumable parts of the brand's scrub brushes (both the sponge and bristle types) are easily removed and fully replaceable.   In the photo here you see my personal favorite Full Circle Home Tool: the Suds Up Dish Brush with removable head.  I just love the way this feels in my hand when doing dishes.  What's more is that like all the other handle products it is made with Bonterra, an earth friendly plant-based plastic.

Considering in the US alone that if just one plastic scrub brush per household gets thrown out every year, that’s an estimated 120 million brushes ending up in our land fills that will take more than 1000 years before they start to break down.  Another important point:  Full Circle products' handles are made with bamboo, an easy and fast to grow plant, and that other parts of their tools are composed of naturally occurring, renewable resources such as cellulose and loofah -- all of which will fully biodegrade.

After trying each of the tools pictured in this post in our kitchen and around the house, I have to admit that I was quite surprised that these hip, modern-looking products actually did a superior job cleaning.  That's even when I compared them to similar, yet more utilitarian household helpers I had previously relied on.   Following these at-home product tests, I was equally floored (no pun intended) that the suggested retail prices of all the Full Circle Home products I tried are affordably priced, ranging from just $3.99 to $9.99 per item.  Better yet, shipping is always free, whether one product from them or many, if you buy direct.

Full Circle Home products have been receiving a lot of buzz lately, including mentions or accolades by high circulation media such as All You Magazine, Woman's Day, and Martha Stewart's Home Design blog -- among others.  After experiencing the line myself, all the exposure this green company has gotten lately makes perfect sense.  All Full Circle products are widely available direct from the brand's website as well as at stores nationwide.

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FTC Disclosure:  MommyBlogExpert received the collection of nine products pictured at the top of this post from Full Circle Home to facilitate this review but did not receive any other compensation for this blogpost.  See complete FTC Disclosure information that appears at the bottom of MommyBlogExpert's main page and at the bottom of every individual post on this blog, including this one.