New to sustainable shopping? These online marketplaces will cover all you want – from clothes to makeup, home decor – and a lot more! By Anushka Goel
Shopping is a stress buster for a lot of us, but unfortunately, the availability of affordable buys has had a negative impact on the environment. This combination of access and low prices is making people spend mindlessly on unnecessary tools, cheap plastic toys, synthetic clothes, and a lot more.
However, with a slow but steady shift towards sustainable living, there’s an increasing consciousness about the products one invites into their life. People are moving towards eco-friendly fashion, sustainable menstrual products, greener toiletries, and a lot more, showing us that small changes can go a long way in bringing about a change.
There are several physical stores and markets across India that sell sustainable goods, but if these are not accessible to you, online marketplaces come in handy to cover the extra miles and bring these products to you.
So, in case you are looking for online marketplaces that allow for sustainable shopping, we have curated the perfect guide for you!
Online sustainable shopping marketplaces in India
SustainKart
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Among the biggest sustainable marketplaces, SustainKart is an e-commerce platform that sells only eco-friendly products. From beauty to home decor, fashion, wellness, pet care and more, the platform has environment-friendly alternates for everything you may need to start leading a sustainable lifestyle.
Check them out here.
Bare Necessities
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From personal care to sustainable gifts, Bare Necessities is not only a marketplace, but they also educate one on sustainable living. The platform hosts several workshops on various topics, and their online shop has products ranging from personal care, kitchen essentials, travel kits, gifts and more.
Check them out here.
Brown Living
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Brown Living pays special emphasis to curating products that are sustainable, high quality and durable. Their range of bags, travel essentials, gift options, personal care products such as makeup and hair care keeps expanding. They aim to bring you the best of sustainability through their platform to ensure that all your needs to begin (or continue with) a sustainable lifestyle are met at one place.
Check them out here.
Upcycle Luxe
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The primarily upcycled fashion marketplace is a great site to choose some sustainably sourced, ethical garments from. The online store also caters to the eco-friendly stationery and home decor requirements of its customers. What’s more, the company aims to create a clean, ethical economy that is circular in nature.
Check them out here.
REFASH
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REFASH promotes upcycling through its variety of clothes and accessories that are available on the platform. One-stop-shop for all things fashion, the brand aims to reduce waste by using and re-using products in different ways. They create products made from post-industrial, pre-consumer and post-consumer waste and use materials that have reached the end of their life to create newer, more sustainable goods.
Check them out here.
Upciclo
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Upcycling is a chic way to reduce waste and repurpose something that may otherwise be trashed, often increasing its value in the process. Working on the same principle, Upciclo is a sustainable online shopping destination that aims to convert the niche practice of upcycling goods into a wider, global market. The brand aims at lowering energy consumption and going green, promoting artisans and opting for fair trade. The platform hosts products across categories such as pet care, home care, personal care, stationary and a lot more, providing plastic-free alternatives for most of your daily needs.
Check them out here.
Itti
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An important aspect of shifting to a sustainable lifestyle is ensuring that the products we use to clean our homes are chemical and toxin-free and eco-friendly. Itti is a brand that caters to the same, offering cleaning tabs for floors, toilets, kitchens and more that dissolve in water to make a powerful cleaner. These cleaners will make your spaces squeaky clean and help them smell fresh, without the toxins.
Check them out here.
Beco
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Beco provides affordable alternatives to single-use products, like napkins, toilet paper, diapers and more. The brand uses biodegradable and compostable raw materials such as corn starch, bamboo, and coconut fibre, along with recycle paper and more to eliminate the need for plastic packaging.
Check them out here.
Vanity Wagon
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Going sustainable can be tough especially if you love buying makeup and skincare. Enter Vanity Wagon, an online marketplace for clean beauty that allows you to choose from sustainable, eco-friendly brands for your next makeup and skincare purchase. From vegan lip colours to shampoo bars, the platform has it all. And to add to that, the brand is certified plastic neutral – for every gram of plastic consumed/purchased, the brand recovers a gram of the same type of plastic from the municipal waste, which is then recycled by government-vetted projects.
Check them out here.
Reflekt
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Conventional cleaning products often come packed in plastic, and these bottles are then thrown into the bin, landing in oceans and polluting landfills. Reflekt aims to provide products in a way that not a single bottle goes to trash. Their cleaning tabs dissolve in water to create handwash, multi-surface cleaners, and more. The bottles can be reused throughout one’s lifetime, and are super stylish, too. Their other products are equally sustainable and will help you embrace the eco-friendly lifestyle with ease.
Check them out here.
Iktara
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One of the best brands to check out if you’re just starting your journey towards sustainable living, Iktara offers bamboo toothbrushes, straws, soap bars, scrubs and a lot more. These simple swaps are great to ease you into a sustainable lifestyle, and make for great conversation starters, too.
Check them out here.
Ecohoy
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Ecohoy aims to provide consumers with sustainable, eco-friendly solutions for their day-to-day needs. From plastic-free toys to personal care products, cookware and more, the brand has sustainability at its core and provides environmentally-viable solutions to customers.
Check them out here.
Loopify
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Loopify aims to make the planet a cleaner, greener place. They offer 100 percent plastic-free, sustainable products for gifting, events, festivals, and everyday living, allowing customers to make the switch to a sustainable lifestyle without compromising on the quality of products.
Check them out here.
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Written By
Anushka Goel
Anushka has previously worked with publications such as the Times of India and Being Indian. A graduate from Xavier Institute of Communications, she specialises in entertainment, food and travel. She also likes to write about sustainability and beauty. When not working, you can catch her reading a book, tending to her plants, cooking or playing an instrument.
