6 Sustainable Dish Brush Alternatives That Are Completely Plastic Free

1. Long Handle Dish Brush

How to Use:

Rub the wet brush directly on the dish soap bar or apply liquid soap on the brush. Wash dishes as normal! When ready to replace the head, detach the old one, compost it, and reattach the new one.

Alternative Uses:

The long handle makes it great for cleaning surfaces like the counter, stove, sink, and hard to reach places like the back of the fridge 👀.

2. Short Handle Dish Brush

With a handle made from fast growing moso bamboo and strong agave fiber bristles, this shorty is easy enough for anyone to use and makes doing dishes a breeze. Agave fiber bristles are sturdy yet soft enough for any delicate dishes or cleaning needs.

How to Use:

This brush has a round handle that’s easy to hold onto! Rub the wet brush directly on the dish soap bar or apply liquid soap on the brush. Scrub as normal! 

Alternative Uses:

This brush can alternatively be used to clean counters, bathrooms, floors, and pretty much anywhere else that needs scrubbing! 

3. Pot Scrubber

The pot scrubber has tougher bristles and is a must-have dish brush. With an easy to hold round handle made from moso bamboo and a bristle blend of sisal + palmyra fibers (derived from palm and agave plants), this brush is perfect for those items that need tough scrubbing.

How to Use:

Grab the rounded handle, rub the wet bristles directly on the dish soap bar or apply liquid soap on the brush. Scrub as normal.

Alternative Uses:

This brush can be used to clean showers, floors, sinks, and anything stuck to a surface that needs to come off.

4. Vegetable Brush

Don’t let its name fool you — the vegetable brush is a medium-soft bristled multipurpose tool that’s a must-have in your kitchen arsenal. A sturdy oval shaped bamboo handle is joined by bristles made from a yucca and agave blend.

How to Use:

Its medium-soft bristle strength makes this brush versatile. It can be a vegetable scrubber, laundry stain remover, a floor/bathroom scrubber, or its oval shape makes it perfect for cutting boards. The possibilities are endless! 

Alternative Uses:

When using on laundry, apply a stain remover to the garment, wet the brush and gently scrub at the stain in a circular motion. Use it on dishes as you would any other scrub brush.

5. Bamboo Bottle Brush

Goodbye are the days of trying to make your hand smaller to fit in a skinny cup or bottle. And forget using a tufted brush that splashes water and soap everywhere as it's yanked out of the bottle. Made with a bamboo handle and coconut fibers (a byproduct of the coconut industry) there’s no such thing as hard to clean glassware anymore.

How to Use:

Rub the wet brush on the dish soap block or apply liquid soap directly to the brush and wash as usual. Alternatively, add soap and water to the bottle/glass first then use the bottle brush to scrub and mix it around. 

Alternative Uses:

The bristled hook at the top of the brush makes it great for cleaning toilets, behind faucets, or any hard to reach corners. But please not at the same time, use a separate brush for each!

6. Biodegradable Kitchen Sponges

Made from wood pulp, sponge cloths are an easy replacement for plastic-based sponges. Each towel can hold up to 20x its weight in water (.75 cups!) and they’re soft enough to use on any surface or dish.

How to Use:

For dishes get the sponge a little wet then rub directly on a solid dish soap or add liquid soap to it. Lather it up and wash dishes as you would with a dishrag. For cleaning, apply the surface cleaner, slightly dampen the cloth and wipe. To use as a paper towel, apply the dry sponge cloth to the surface and wait until it’s absorbed all the liquid it can. When it’s soaked, ring it out and repeat as needed.

Alternative Uses:

This multipurpose cloth can be used for dishes, cleaning, or as a paper towel replacement! When used as paper towels, each cloth can replace up to 17 rolls of paper towels.