Household
The household department is where the store's better-ingredients philosophy leaves the pantry and the medicine cabinet and takes on the rest of the house. Most of it is cleaning supplies — plant- and mineral-based cleaners, foaming hand soaps and their money-saving refills, laundry bars and washing soda — joined by home-wellness pieces like shower filters. If you've been swapping out products one ingredient list at a time, this aisle is the natural next room.
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Cleaning is the heart of it. Citrus-powered surface cleaners, pure washing soda for boosting laundry or mixing your own scrub, and old-fashioned laundry bar soap cover most of a home's dirty work with a short list of ingredients. Foaming hand soaps from Canadian favourites come in scents like lavender and fresh mint, and the refill formats are the quiet star — one pouch refills a pump bottle several times over and skips that much plastic.
Beyond cleaning, the department picks up the odds and ends that make a home run a little healthier: a shower filter to take the edge off hard, chlorinated water, and even plantable seed boxes for the garden-curious. It's a small but steadily growing corner of the store — new household items tend to land here first, before they're numerous enough to earn a shelf of their own.
Shopping this department is mostly about reading labels the same way you would on food: scent from essential oils or fragrance-free, ingredient lists you can actually parse, and refill or bar formats that cut down on packaging. Claims like biodegradable or hypoallergenic come from each manufacturer's own labelling, so the package is always the authority. Start with the product you replace most often — for most households, that's hand soap — and work outward from there.
