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Meliora All-Purpose Home Cleaner, Spray Bottle Kit

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Meliora

All-Purpose Home Cleaner, Glass Spray Bottle Kit with Refill Tablets

A glass bottle you keep, a soap tablet you drop in water, and a paperboard refill box. The sprayer head is the only plastic in the system. Compare that with buying a new trigger bottle of cleaner every month, forever.

2 / 10 Low plastic footprint $$

A reusable glass spray bottle with soap refill tablets in paperboard. The plastic sprayer head is the one plastic part in the system.

How this score breaks down

Plastic in the product and its packaging Minimal plastic
Recyclable paperboard refill box, vegetable-based inks per brand
Microplastic shedding and leaching Doesn't shed
No polymer ingredients
End of life: persistence and recovery Recovers well
Recyclable, repairable, or genuinely recovered; low persistence.
Plastic-derived chemicals of concern Low concern
No phthalates, bisphenols, or PFAS.
Transparency and disclosure Mostly disclosed
Every ingredient listed on the front label

Strengths

  • One glass bottle replaces repeat plastic trigger bottles
  • Refill tablets ship in paperboard
  • Full front-label ingredient disclosure

Trade-offs

  • Sprayer head is plastic and will eventually wear
  • MADE SAFE and Leaping Bunny claims not yet registry-verified

What's inside

Unscented vegetable soap tablet made with organic coconut oil; dissolves in water in the included glass bottle.

PartMaterial
Bottle: glass, reusable
Sprayer head: plastic
Refill tablets: solid soap in recyclable paperboard

Free of Glass bottle, paperboard refills; plastic confined to the sprayer head

Packaging
Recyclable paperboard refill box, vegetable-based inks per brand
Microplastics
No polymer ingredients

Attributes

What this product is, at a glance.

Glass BottleRefill TabletsPaperboard Refill PackagingFragrance-Free

Certifications

None listed. We only show independent third-party certifications we can verify with the issuing body, and this product does not currently hold any.

About Meliora

Meliora is a woman-owned cleaning company founded in 2013 in Chicago by Kate Jakubas and Mike Mayer, after Kate, an environmental engineering student, could not find a cleaner with full ingredient disclosure and formulated her own. It makes plastic-free powder detergent, oxygen brightener, soap sticks, all-purpose spray, and bar soaps, still made in its own Chicago factory.

It is a certified B Corp and MADE SAFE certified, both confirmed in their registries, meaning it meets audited social and environmental standards and is screened free of known toxic ingredients, and it is a member of 1% for the Planet. Every ingredient is printed on every label, and the plastic-free, refillable packaging runs across the core line rather than one product.

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Melissa Walker, founder of Thriving Sustainably

Hi, I’m Melissa-founder of Thriving Sustainably

Melissa Walker is the founder of Thriving Sustainably. A mom who started reading the labels after learning how much microplastic ends up in our bodies, she co-leads the environmental pillar of a Fortune 500 company’s employee sustainability program and rates brands against public certification databases so families can lower their microplastic exposure without the guesswork.