Refill Friday: the travel-size bottle is a refill you do at home
A travel bottle does not need to be bought. Keep one set of small bottles, fill them from your full-size bottle at home, and carry them back empty.
Refill Friday: start with the bottle you empty fastest
Refilling works best when we start small: with the one bottle in the house that runs out first. Here is how to find it and why turnover matters more than the label.
Refill Friday: a refill starts with an empty bottle, not a top-up
Topping up a nearly empty bottle passes old product’s age on to the fresh refill. Here is the five-minute reset that gives every refill a clean start.
Refill Friday: the most sustainable container is the one already in your kitchen
Refill culture has a marketing problem. Search for a “sustainable refill jar” and you will find dozens of brand-new glass containers, each one shipped, boxed, and sold to solve a problem that a container you already own could solve for free. Here is the truth, stated plainly: the most sustainable container is not the prettiest…
Connection Thursday: the person who remembers your refill
Every refill station has a person behind it. At our Ubud shop, it is often Wayan, who has poured Lavender Liquid Soap into the same brand of glass bottle for three years now, and who remembers which customers prefer it a little less diluted. That memory is the part of refill culture that does not…
Zero waste skincare: how to build a routine that actually refills
Most zero waste skincare guides hand you a shopping list: buy the bamboo brush, trade the plastic bottle for a bar, done. That advice is not wrong, it is just incomplete. A genuine zero waste skincare routine is not a single swap, it is a system: how products are made, how they are packaged, how…
Plastic free bathroom: an honest, refill-first guide to swapping what you actually use
Search “plastic free bathroom” and you will find the same list, again and again: buy a bamboo toothbrush, a safety razor, reusable cotton rounds, tooth tablets, a dozen small new objects to replace the plastic ones already sitting on your shelf. It is well-meaning advice, and almost none of it starts in the right place….
Refill Friday: recyclable was never the same as recycled
Here is a truth we do not say often enough: recyclable was never the same as recycled. Worldwide, only around nine percent of all plastic waste ever produced has actually been recycled. The rest sits in landfill, drifts into rivers and oceans, or gets burned. The little triangle on a bottle tells you what a…
Refill Friday: two thousand two hundred and forty-five bottles, and counting
That is not a forecast. It is not a marketing claim. It is the number of plastic bottles that did not enter the waste stream in 2025 because customers brought their empties back, filled them up, and left with the same container they arrived with. Two thousand two hundred and forty-five. What the number actually…
Refill Friday: the refill costs less, and we meant it to
Here is a number you can check yourself. A 230ml bottle of our Begone Bug spray is $14.99. The 230ml refill can of the same spray is $12.99. Same botanicals, same volume, two dollars apart. The only thing missing from the cheaper one is a second sprayer, because you already own the first. That gap…
