These biodegradable shampoo bottles turn into trees when you plant them

It’s been common knowledge for a while now that a large portion of beauty products are just downright terrible for us, our furry friends, and the environment at large. Plastic exfoliator beads polluting waterways, chemicals that act like oestrogen giving male fish female sex organs, and synthetic toxins and parabens being linked to breast cancer in women and low sperm counts in men.These are all familiar stories that prompt us to think twice when we hit the shelves in search of moisturiser or shampoo. The good news is things are changing. Every visit to the supermarket or chemist reveals a bunch of new products trying to do things better and we’ve just come across a brand who have taken green to a whole new level.O’right are a Taiwanese company whose products are “healthy for the human body, healthy for society, and healthy for the environment.” So far they’ve formulated hair-care, and skin-care ranges out of good enough to eat ingredients like green tea, lemongrass, and goji berries and their products are so green they even tell you the exact percentage of natural ingredients in each bottle. We’re talking nothing below 90%.

The coolest thing about O’right is their range of shampoos which come in biodegradable bottles that have seeds hidden in a little chamber on the base. Once you’ve finished using the shampoo you can plant the bottle and it will grow into a native tree! The bottle – made from fruit, plant, and vegetable waste – takes up to a year to break down and become fertiliser for the seeds.

They’ve also developed a shampoo called ‘recoffee’ made from oil extracted from recycled coffee grinds. Recoffee products are so green they even use coffee as a colourant in making the bottle and when you plant that bottle it grows into a coffee tree. Hint: you definitely want to plant it in a cool place because if it gets over 30 degrees, no dice.

O’right have won a bunch of design awards because, not that it really matters, but their packaging is super pretty too. Their decisions aren’t just based on aesthetics though. They use bamboo to make lids because, while nice looking, bamboo plants release 35% more oxygen than other plants and absorb 35–50 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. So as long as its farmed responsibly its basically a miracle commodity. They also make their paper packaging from bamboo leaves and sugarcane bagasse printed with soy ink. The paper is then embedded with seeds so you can plant the whole box your product comes in and it’ll grow into flowers. Sweet.

Check O’right out online.

Words by Alix