Recommended Partner Product: Seedling by Grove
Updated: Nov 26, 2020
Great news! We have our first partner to help generate funds for donations in the name of Witches Healing the Earth! In addition to our Donate button at the top of our site, we will earn commission off our partnership with Grove Collaborative.
I'm sure you've already heard of Grove Collaborative through countless bloggers and Youtube creators, who earn a portion of their income from their paid partnerships with Grove. This is exactly the same, only instead of an individual benefiting from the generated income, Witches Healing the Earth uses those funds to funnel back into various vetted charitable organizations.
The most exciting product I use regularly is the Seedling by Grove Bath Tissue. That's right: toilet paper. Hear me out.
In developed nations, everyone uses toilet paper. Toilet paper is made from...trees. Do you know how many trees we have to cut down to pay for our sanitation habits? 270,000 trees A DAY. A DAY!! (94,000 from the US alone!)
That's a hefty price for our earth to pay to be wiping our asses, don't you think? Dwight Schrute agrees...
Seedling by Grove is really cool because of a couple of things. First, instead of being made out of trees, it's made 100% from bamboo. For those of you who don't know, bamboo is a very sustainable material--technically a grass--that only takes about three years to get established and once it's planted, it keeps growing. Bamboo is also very hardy and can grow in nutrient-depleted soil, making it a perfect candidate for soothing lands ravaged by deforestation. (Full disclosure: there are still questions about whether all bamboo is being sourced using sustainable practices, so as always, conscious consumerism is key. Grove Collaborative ensures its bamboo is grown and harvested on family farms in China, and assures us that it is not from a source of food for pandas, like some other harvested bamboo is.)
The second cool thing is that, as part of the Seedling Promise, in partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation, a portion of every purchase of the Seedling paper line funds the planting of new trees in the US. So far, over 150,000 trees have been planted. Seedling by Grove has an ambitious goal to plant 1,000,000 trees by 2022.
Oh also? Instead of your toilet paper being wrapped in plastic, it comes in a box made of recycled paper, which is still recyclable! What?! And on top of that, if you have it set up in your auto-shipment, you never have to worry about making that trip to the store and realizing while you're sitting on the toilet that you forgot to buy toilet paper. Because it just comes shipped to you once a month, as long as you have it in your cart!
My family has been using Seedling by Grove Bath Tissue for four months now. We used to buy toilet paper from Costco or Target, which was made from trees and wrapped in plastic. My review on the new tree-free TP is that, while it's not as soft and plush as the big fluffy Costco jumbo rolls, it lasts just as long and the quality wasn't so much lower that I noticed any difference. It's definitely not like any single-ply toilet paper you find in a public restroom or at your office building. It's comfortable. It's durable and doesn't tear easily.
So why should you buy using Witches Healing the Earth affiliate links?
You're going to buy toilet paper anyway. You might as well at least try the sustainable tree-free toilet paper. Just use our link. When you sign up, you aren't locked in to shopping with Grove forever. But honestly, I think you'll like it so much you probably will.
You can certainly visit their normal site and order without using our links. I don't think that using our link gets you any discount. But when you use our link to sign up and make your first purchase, Witches Healing the Earth can earn up to $12, which we donate to charity. So...you're doing something good for the planet by switching to tree-free toilet paper, you're helping plant new trees with your purchase via the Seedling Promise, and you're also donating $12 to charity without having to spend more than you would if you didn't click our link! Seems kinda like a no-brainer to me. (Also, this isn't only on Seedling products. Anything from Grove Collaborative if you click right there will get us that affiliate commission, which we turn into donations to vetted charitable organizations.)
There are so many other products my family uses from Grove that I can't wait to tell you about. But for now, I wanted to limit it to toilet paper.
Oh god, I just wrote an entire blog about toilet paper.
You just read an entire blog about toilet paper.
Charlie Nichols is the founder of WHE and a staff contributor. Charlie studied Journalism & Mass Communication, Marketing, and Psychology at Madison College in Madison, Wisconsin. She has practiced witchcraft for over two decades and is a certified spiritual empowerment coach, a certified ethical psychic, and a certified crystal healer. Charlie lives on the shores of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin, USA with her partner, daughter, and animal companions.
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