The Top Line:

MAYBE buy. With so few ingredients, and none of them being toxic, we really love the earth-friendly Eco-Me Toilet Bowl cleaner. It cleans really well and has just a faint mint scent. The drawbacks are that it costs a bit more than other available toilet bowl cleaners, and to us, we think the bottle could be reformed into the traditional toilet bowl cleaner bottle.

The Breakdown:

• Cost & Products: $8.99 on Amazon for 32oz. and $6.99 on the Eco-Me website (plus shipping).

• How ‘Clean’ Is This? Pretty darn clean - very limited ingredients and none appear to be an issue.

• Packaging: Amazon packaging, so just a bag for safety. Given that this is NOT concentrated that you would dilute at home NOT powder like the Seventh Generation, it is still in a plastic bottle, similar to typical toilet bowl cleaners.

• Purchasing & Shipping: Our purchase was on Amazon

• Good to Know: Eco-Me has a whole line of other products that are eco-friendly and limited ingredients

• What’s Your Impact? Standard toilet bowl cleaners are highly toxic, full of bad ingredients for the environment. Eco-Me’s Toilet Bowl Cleaner has so few ingredients to begin with — and all of them appear to be eco-friendly!

The Good:

✔ Handful of ingredients - none of which are a concern

✔ Very light, mint scent

✔ Cleans the bowl

The Bad:

✗ A little pricey versus other options

✗ Wish the bottle was more traditional/a little easier to hold

The Experience

Context: We’ve tried Seventh Generation Toilet Bowl Cleaner Powder as well as their liquid versions (which was our previous staple). This is how we used Eco-Me’s Toilet Bowl Cleaner:

• The bottle is pretty big and a little awkward to hold

• The gel comes out easily once it’s squeezed, but we do miss the bottles with angled toilet bowl cleaners

• The gel doesn’t smell offensive - it does actually smell minty

• Cleans the bowl right up!

The Cost

We compared the cost of Eco-Me Toilet bowl cleaner to the likes of Seventh Generation, Method, Clorox, and Mrs. Meyers’s toilet bowl cleaners.

*We assumed that each ounce of powder toilet cleaner is equivalent to 2 ounces of liquid toilet bowl cleaner.

Money Report: Not great. Eco-Me toilet bowl cleaner is on the higher end of the range when it comes to cost. The good news is that the switch is only a few bucks.

Our Recommendation:

MAYBE buy. With so few ingredients, and none of them being toxic, we really love the earth-friendly Eco-Me Toilet Bowl cleaner. It cleans really well and has just a faint mint scent. The drawbacks are that it costs a bit more than other available toilet bowl cleaners, and to us, we think the bottle could be reformed into the traditional toilet bowl cleaner bottle.

We're on a mission to reduce our personal carbon footprint with small, hopefully easy, changes in our home to fight against climate change. This means we're looking for products that may be all natural, ideally zero waste, reusable or compostable -- while still being affordable!