Skip the Paste—You Should Chomp Down on a Toothpaste Tablet
My bathroom feels like a land of trash. Not everything worked out—bar shampoo made my scalp super itchy, and I wound up pregnant exactly one month after investing in several reusable menstrual products. My local refill shop closed, so I couldn’t refill liquid soaps and moisturizers there anymore, and a liquid refill by mail came in a massive plastic bag that I had to throw away similar to a plastic bottle. I signed up for Bite’s Toothpaste Bits Subscription maybe four years ago now, and every couple of months a new paper bag of tablets arrives to refill the glass jar in my bathroom. They're supposed to be eco-friendly, which is easy to confirm—obviously, throwing away fewer tubes is better for the environment, especially since toothpaste tubes aren’t recyclable.
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