8 Eco-Friendly Canadian Cleaning Brands to Use at Home

Household cleaning products can come with a lot of chemicals or packaging that’s harmful to the environment. But there are a ton of local brands out there that offer sustainable, eco-friendly alternatives that clean just as well—if not better—than other typical products. Here are eight Canadian brands that show the planet some love with their products this Earth Month and beyond.

Eco-friendly Canadian Cleaning Brands to Shop

1. Make Nice Soap Company

Vancouver-based and woman-owned Make Nice Soap Company plans to divert over one million plastic bottles from oceans and landfills by 2030 with its solid dish soap. The ultra-concentrated, natural solid soap replaces up to three plastic bottles of conventional liquid dish soap. It’s also made with vegan ingredients, and is plastic-free, paraben-free and palm oil-free. The unscented solid dish soap starts at $15. Everything is made in small batches and can be bought online or in-store.

Read More: Make Nice Company Shares the Local Love in Vancouver

2. Nature Clean

It’s no surprise that Nature Clean’s automatic dishwasher pods ($9.99 for 24 pods) are the brand’s best-selling product. After testing them out, my dishes came out of my tiny old dishwasher sparkling clean—and the pods do it all without harsh chemicals, perfumes or dyes. Plus, the packaging is recyclable. The third-generation, family-owned brand makes all of its cleaning products with ingredients from plants and minerals and scents from essential oils. They’re all biodegradable and safe for grey water and septic systems.

Nature Clean’s lavender collection has a simple and subtle fragrance that’s timely for spring cleaning. The multi-surface spray ($4.99) and concentrated laundry liquid ($12.49) are both made with 99% natural ingredients. And a one-litre bottle of the latter yields 66 loads of laundry. Nature Clean’s products are available across a range of in-store and online retailers.

3. Wildflower Mercantile

Wildflower Mercantile doubles as a florist and lifestyle boutique in Comox on Vancouver Island. It also has its very own home collection that includes all-purpose cleaner, hand soap and dish soap made from natural, non-toxic and biodegradable ingredients. The lemon, ylang ylang and spearmint natural fragrance in the all-purpose cleaner ($17.50 for the glass bottle) leaves surfaces clean and smelling fresh. Plus, the bottles are refillable, so you can reduce waste and stock up with the three-litre refillable pouch ($55) when you’re short. Shop online or at the Comox store.

4. Ejó

 

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Speaking of refillable, I discovered cleaning brand ejó earlier this year at the health and wellness trade show, CHFA NOW Vancouver. All of ejó’s products are refill-focused, reducing the amount of packaging waste in landfills. The Montreal-based brand makes plant-based cleaners designed for different cleaning needs, including kitchen, bathroom and all-purpose. After getting the starter kit ($30), which comes with both a spray bottle and a refill pouch, customers can stock up on just the pouch ($25). The pouch alone comes with four fills. Paraben-free, sulphate-free and vegan, ejó’s products are scented with essential oils for options like eucalyptus and rosemary or lavender and tea tree. Purchase ejó’s products online.

5. Nellie’s

Nellie’s started as a small, family-owned brand from North Vancouver that makes simple, planet-friendly cleaning products with an old-school look. Now, the brand is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2026.

The brand is known for its best-selling laundry products, including its laundry soda, oxygen brightener, WOW stick stain remover and dryer balls (also made in wool and with different scents) as an eco-friendly, reusable alternative to dryer sheets. Its newest environmentally friendly offering? Laundry cubes ($10) and dish cubes ($10), both of which are PVA-free and plastic-free, and come in a reusable container.

6. Eco-Max

 

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Ontario-based Eco-Max also uses plant-based ingredients and avoids harsh chemicals in its cleaning products, most of which are made locally in the company’s Mississauga facility. Forgo plastic altogether when doing laundry with its lavender-scented laundry detergent strips ($12.99 for 32 loads). Eco-Max is available at major and independent retailers, as well as online.

7. The Unscented Company

 

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What sets The Unscented Company apart is right in its name. All of its products are unscented and designed to be refillable or solid to reduce plastic and water use. The Montreal-based brand saved over 2.4 million plastic bottles in 2025 with its refillable lifestyle and cleaning products for the kitchen, bathroom, laundry and dishes. The Unscented Company also makes sustainable accessories like reusable linen cloths ($28) and wood dish brushes ($8.99) to keep cleaning truly clean. Shop the brand online or in-store.

8. Mint Cleaning

Two moms co-founded the Ucluelet-based Mint Cleaning after experiencing the first-hand effects of regularly using conventional products with chemicals in their cleaning business. So, they decided to create their own products that were safer, more sustainable and still effective. Mint’s products, like the glass cleaner ($14), are made with plant-based, non-toxic ingredients that are biodegradable. Plus, the products are refillable or recyclable, as well as scented with essential oils. Find Mint’s products online or at over 300 retailers across Canada.