Serious Tissuesoffers quality paper tissues as nice on your nose as premium brands, but these are made from 100% recycled paper, in plastic-free packaging.
As well as being free from dyes or scents, these tissues are produced in the Midlands, creating employment for local people.
Made from old cereal boxes and newspaper), each delivery includes 6 packs of 72 tissues, in thick 3-ply size. The tissues are naturally off-white, using a non-chlorine bleaching agent to remove colour from recycled magazines and documents. Save 10% on monthly deliveries.
The company can also supply wholesale to doctor surgeries, hospitals, offices, hotels etc. The brand was founded by four fathers (collectively to eight children), who wished to do something to help.
A tree is planted for each box sold (a million trees and counting) to store carbon and provide homes for wildlife.
How to Safely Blow Your Nose
If you have a cold or bunged up nose, here’s how to do it – advice from the expert to prevent making your ears pop, rupturing blood vessels, or forcing air into your middle ear (not good).
- Place one finger against one nostril and apply pressure.
- Take a gentle breath, then gently blow the other side of your nose, into the tissue.
- Then do the same on the other side.
- Then wash your hands, avoid passing germs onto others.
Do These Paper Tissues Cost More?
At the website, you can subscribe online for big savings (you can pause or cancel anytime). This works out way more affordable than buying separate boxes in shops. And it’s good to have them on standby, as you never know when you’re going to get a cold!
Just bin these tissues for hygiene to naturally break down. Don’t flush them (they are thicker than toilet paper and could clog drains, and cause fatbergs and garden floods (which will not make you popular with your neighbours).
Genuine Customer Reviews
Just what you need for colder weather. A strong tissue to contain your sneezes!
Great quality.
Recycled Paper Tissues (for strong sneezes!)
Who Gives a Crap? sells these fab paper tissues, made from post-consumer waste, and sold in colourful cardboard boxes. Known mostly for its recycled paper toilet roll, it’s now ventured into making a few other products, to stop deforestation for simple household products.
And this company donates 50% of profits to sanitation projects abroad, so that people have access to clean hygienic toilets.
Sold in boxes of 66 tissues, these are are free from scent and dye, and are strong 3-ply (the company says they are so strong, they can cope with the strongest sneezes – even ones that sound like a mini-scream!
Do These Paper Tissues Cost More?
Not really, though it pays to subscribe online, as they will be more expensive if you buy one box in the shops, if you can find them.
At the website, you can buy 12 boxes for £18.00 (66 strong tissues each). And as we all know, a strong tissue means less tissues used). And shipping is free on most orders over £20.
Just bin these tissues for hygiene to naturally break down. Don’t flush them (they are thicker than toilet paper and could clog drains, and cause fatbergs and garden floods (which will not make you popular with your neighbours).
Genuine Customer Reviews
They are good for cold winter season.
The tissues are lovely and soft, gentle on the nose. The boxes bright and fun.
A Box of Bamboo Facial Tissues
Bamboo tissues are made from bamboo plants, which can shoot up a metre a day. Unlike traditional trees, bamboo regenerates after it’s cut. This growth makes it an excellent sustainable option.
Bamboo tissues are soft, strong, and naturally hypoallergenic. They offer a double benefit of a plush touch while being eco-friendly.
Naked Paper(use code englandnaturally for 10% discount) offers bamboo facial tissues, in zero waste packaging. In various sizes, these are free from scent and cost the same per tissue as leading brands.
The super-soft 2 ply tissues are seriously strong, and free from bleach or scents.
Organic Cotton Washable Hankies
Switching to organic cotton hankies is an effective ‘small swap’ idea. Organic cotton uses 91% less water than conventional cotton and is super-soft on your nose (important when you’ve got the sniffles!)
LittleLeaf Organic makes nice organic cotton hankies (also sold in a set of 9). Made with solar power, and sold in recycled cardboard boxes. These hankies are sold in a variety of cute designs including bicycles, turtles and gardening.
You can also buy sets of three hankies in a box (including a festive Christmas edition with trees).
The family packs contain 9 hankies and make a great affordable zero waste gift. Each one has a discreet LittleLeaf organic logo in the corner.
You can also use them to wipe your face in hot weather or mop up little spills, then just throw them in the wash (where due to natural materials, they won’t release microplastics in the machine). They’re even made in a solar-powered factory!
Switching to organic cotton hankies is an effective ‘small swap’ idea. Organic cotton uses 91% less water than conventional cotton and is super-soft on your nose (important when you’ve got the sniffles!)
A ‘Book’ of Organic Cotton Hankies
HankyBook has reinvented the handkerchief! This compact ‘book’ of soft organic cotton ‘pages’ with a protective outer cover was invented by an engineering student.
Just ‘turn the page’ for a fresh hanky! Made in San Diego (USA), you then just ‘pull the pages apart’ to wash in the machine.
Also good to stop fogging up your glasses or deal with running make-up, the protective cover keeps your hands, pockets and bag clean, and helps to prevent infection.
Although it’s made abroad, there’s nothing like it (yet) in England, and one purchase should last years.
Beautifully Illustrated Linen Hankies
Bless Hanky makes cute reusable linen handkerchiefs, sold in reusable gift boxes. Quick to dry and easy to care for, you can also use these as reusable table napkins.
The gift boxes are made from hand-moulded recycled paper (paper mache) and printed with eco inks. Labels are made from chain-of-custody certified craft paper.
