21 Eco-Friendly, Sustainable Gifts You’ll Want to Keep For Yourself

Baggu’s deadstock collection uses up leftover fabric in the coolest way – patchwork! If you’re obsessed with trendy split-seam pants and funky mixed prints, this sustainable tote will be the easiest purchase you’ve ever made. Each bag weighs practically nothing, is incredibly sturdy, and folds up into the cutest little square for easy storage.

For applying toner, taking off makeup with micellar water, or any other cleansing needs, these cotton and bamboo reusable rounds are a much more planet-friendly substitute for single-use cotton pads. These babies come with a little mesh bag that you can toss into the washing machine for easy cleaning!

Editor’s Note: We’ve tested these out and they’re even softer than the cotton rounds that you’d throw away after one use.

If you love a good slide moment but don’t love the plastic, these fully recyclable shoes are for you. According to the Girlfriend website, they’re made of old shoes, scrap material, and a soy-based compound with a zero waste design (absolutely no glue!) They’re vegan, waterproof, and totally lightweight. Oh, and did we mention you can clean them in the dishwasher?! We’re sold.

This A+ gift option has us craving a matcha oat milk latte…you’ll never have to throw out a huge carton of expired oat milk again! It’ll produce a single serving of the milk substitute of your choice at the push of a button, which helps eliminate packaging waste – plus, you’ll avoid all of the nasty preservatives that are present in many commercially-made milks.

Time to wash up! Everyone needs hand soap, so why not give a refillable, soothing set of soaps that’ll help reduce the consumption of single-use plastics while you’re at it? The set comes with one chic bottle and three sachets of yummy-smelling soaps that go from powder to foam – just add water.

We're telling all of our friends to buy this tote. With beach days on the horizon, you can’t be caught without one! This terry cloth tote is the perfect size to fit your towel, your beach reads, and allllll the snacks, and we love that it's made of ECONYLTM which is a 100% regenerative nylon from fishing nets + nylon landfill waste.

Feeling like making it a matching set? Shop the baseball cap and terrycloth scrunchie.

Nobody does eco-friendly like Patagonia! The brim of this adorable dusty blue trucker hat is made from 100% recycled, fully traceable fishing nets and the entire product is Fair Trade Certified. This Y2K-meets-sustainability moment is everything we could’ve ever hoped for, and whoever you’re giving the hat to will totally agree.

Not into the blue-gray tones? Browse through their extensive collection of color offerings.

This adorable phone case packs a big, eco-friendly punch. It’s 100% compostable, made of 100% plant-based materials as well as eco-friendly ink, and according to the website, will protect your phone from a 4ft drop.

Plus, how cute is the design?! “You are exactly where you need to be” is the soothing sort of affirmation we want to be reminded of each time we pick up our phones.

Can it get any more eco-friendly than a potted plant? We think not.

Any houseplant is great, but snake plants are specifically known for their air-purifying properties.

If the person you’re buying a gift for is anything like us, they’re constantly losing plain black bobby pins and would be totally thrilled to replace them with these adorable Y2K butterfly clips made from plant-based materials.

Give the gift of shoes that require absolutely no breaking in with these gorgeous sneakers. If you love how long a leather sneaker lasts and want to make sure you’re investing in an ethical option, ECCO could be your new go-to. Making new leather typically pollutes gallons and gallons of fresh water with run-off, but with ECCO’s signature DriTan method, water waste is significantly reduced. Plus they’ve been around since the ‘60s, so clearly they’re doing something right!

Everyone loves a new phone case!

Pela Case made the world’s first compostable phone case from flax shive and a plant-based biopolymer, and they donate a percentage of each sale to Ocean Cleanup and Preservation Initiatives. Plus, it’s kind of ridiculous how cute the little baby mushrooms are.

This handy candy-colored set comes with 12 reusable straws, 4 carrying pouches, and 2 little cleaning brushes to make sure you’re getting your straws nice and clean between each use. The person you’re gifting can throw the carrying case into their tote and won’t have to reach for a plastic straw at Starbucks again!

If you’re looking to splurge on a gift for someone extra special in your life, Noiranca makes beautiful bags with PETA-approved vegan leather that’s completely DMF-free and consists of 58% recycled elements. This little structured Maya bag comes in three refined shades, and can be held with the top handle or worn as a crossbody purse.

Ever wished you could give someone a few extra hours of sleep? With this blanket, maybe you can.

Instead of using plastic pellets, Bearaby blankets are naturally weighted, using everything from organic cotton to renewable Eucalyptus Wood TENCEL to Eco Velvet made from recycled marine plastic that's been spun into extra-soft fabric. If you haven’t slept under a weighted blanket, you’re truly missing out.

Reduce plastic usage with these adorable beeswax wraps. Wrap your snacks, half-cut fruit, or leftovers in silicone-free, plastic-free wraps that can be rewashed and used over and over for months. This pack comes with an assortment of sizes (small wraps for avocado halves and big wraps for birthday cake!) and each is printed with little honeycombs – we can’t even handle how cute that is.

If you’re trying to cut down on single-use plastic water bottles but you hate carrying around a bulky, heavy reusable glass bottle, this collapsible substitute is for you. It’ll hold 20 ounces of daily hydration, and once you finish the water inside, it’ll shrink down to fit right into your bag.

Eliminate packaging waste by practicing Furoshiki, the Japanese tradition of giving gifts wrapped in beautiful reusable cloths like this one. The recipient won’t have to throw away any wrapping paper into the garbage, and they can use the printed cloth as a tea towel, a bandana, a scarf, or pass it on by wrapping a gift in it themselves.