Making sense of plastic deodorant tubes.

Making sense of plastic deodorant tubes.

How do you recycle a plastic deodorant tube? Itโ€™s much more complicated than one might think. Thereโ€™s several kinds of plastic that can make up one single tube.

Most deodorant tubes contain high-density or low-density polyethylene (ie. HDPE/#2 plastic or LDPE/#4). But some parts are made with Polypropylene. And you know that little dial at the bottom that pushes it up? Yep, that can be a different type of plastic. Same with the little tray that hold the deodorant, and the post that runs up the middle. Even the cap is sometimes a different type of plastic than the body of the tube. Putting them in the recycling might feel good, but you practically need an engineering degree to make sure you donโ€™t contaminate your an entire load of recycling. You need to dissect that tube down into its individual parts, clean them thoroughly, and only recycle those marked with a recycling code. By the time youโ€™re done, youโ€™ve used a bunch of water, wasted time, and still thereโ€™s only a slight chance that those parts will actually wind up being recycled.

Thereโ€™s a better way. You donโ€™t need a complicated plastic tube to apply deodorant. All of this is why HiBAR plastic-free deodorant comes in our unique recyclable and compostable cardboard tube.

And thatโ€™s not all. What we put inside the tube matters too. HiBAR is natural deodorant, free of all of the bad stuff you might find in traditional deodorants. We donโ€™t use paragons, triclosan, phthalates, propylene glycol, or aluminum. Our natural deodorant is nothing but all-natural, all-day protection, with no animal cruelty, and of course zero plastic.
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