The Top Line: NOT a buy. We like the zero-plastic effort, especially with zero-waste and biodegradable beeswax packaging for the hand soap concentrate. Unfortunately, being a little tricky to use and pretty expensive did not make up for good ingredients, clever packaging, and lovely lemongrass soap scent.

The Breakdown:

• Cost & Products: $19 for 3 of etee's hand soap concentrate tubes

• How ‘Clean’ Is This? Pretty clean. The tubes are made of beeswax, which will compost both in the garbage and the compost bin. The ingredients sound complex but looking at them more closely, they don’t cause allergic reactions and do not harm the environment.

• Packaging: Other than the beeswax, w hich will compost, the package was sent via cardboard box. No plastic was used.

• Purchasing & Shipping: etee’ss website is relatively straightforward. Shipping is free with a $50+ purchase, otherwise it’s $3.95.

• What’s Your Impact? No plastic casings of any kind when it comes to packaging. Ingredients sound a little scary but overall are environmentally friendly and are hypoallergenic.

The Experience

We want to limit the amount of plastic in our bathroom, and even though we use refills, we wanted to try to get rid of the plastic from our refills.

• Messy, there’s no doubt about that

• There is something odd about saying a hand soap is messy though since you can wash it off…

• The beeswax tubes can crumble and crack when you squeeze them into the soap dispenser - be ware

• The wider the opening of the soap dispenser, the easier it would be to use this refill

• After that, add water, shake a bit and wait about an hour

• The scent is 100% natural essential oil and we love it

• Hands are not dry after using the etee hand soap, which is great

The Cost

We did the math to figure out how much it would cost for 60oz of liquid soap - which should be enough for a year for a family of four. We looked at etee’s Lemongrass Hand Soap Concentrate compared to Mrs. Meyers, Grove Collaborative, Cleancult, Seventh Generation Hand Wash Powder as well as the drugstore staples of Dawn and Soft Soap.

Money Report: Really expensive — on the level of Cleancult.

The Good:

✔ Zero-waste, with compostable/biodegradable casing

✔ Lovely, real scent of lemongrass made with essential oils

✔ Pretty clean ingredients that cause no environmental damage and are hypoallergenic

The Bad:

✗ Expensive!

✗ Tubes are a little tricky to use and leak if not handled appropriately

Our Recommendation: NOT a buy. We like the zero-plastic effort, especially with zero-waste and biodegradable concentrate packaging for the hand soap. Unfortunately, being a little tricky to use and pretty expensive did not make up for good ingredients, clever packaging, and lovely lemongrass soap scent.

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!