Eco-Friendly Gift Guide | 12 Gifts for The Sustainable and Vegan Friend!

What better way to celebrate the special people in your life than by giving them the perfect gift from this eco-friendly gift guide that they will love! Especially for people in your life that value sustainability, they’ll love that you took the extra time to find something sustainable and ethical for them that matches their values!

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1. A sustainable, cruelty-free, vegan, and organic Gift Box

This adorable gift box will sure brighten someone’s day with their high-quality, non-toxic and ethical products to make your special someone feel like royalty! As a bonus, all the products that they send are FULL-SIZED! Plus, the brand Love Goodly sends a part of their profits to support organizations like Farm Sanctuaries, Orangutan Alliance, and Cancer research and support organizations, you you and your loved one can feel good about your purchase.

If you would rather select several separate eco-friendly gifts for your special someone instead of getting a gift box, you can buy products individually at lovegoodly.com. They have shampoo bars in many different scents, body butters, and more!

2. Handcrafted Minimalist Bowl Set

This eco-friendly gift is great for the food lover in your life, or anybody who is in need of some kitchenware! These bowls are a beautiful ivory color, sure to elevate any meal and add some style to their kitchen.

Find it here.

3. A beautiful & summery woven straw bag

This gorgeous bag is handmade and sold through the website Made Trade that works with individual artisans and businesses to distribute their crafts. Made Trade also makes sure that all of their products are ethically-sourced and made with sustainable materials that are good for the planet, making this the perfect ethical and eco-friendly gift option. Plus, this bag is so cute and would go great with any summer dress or outfit!

Find it here.

4. A subscription to RawSpiceBar

This subscription box comes every month with a new and exciting spice mix that is sure to please any aspiring chef or home-cook. It can be easy to fall into a rut of using the same spices for cooking every day, but with this subscription, the special person in your life will have the opportunity to expand their cooking horizons! Plus, each spice blend is prepared in small batches and is ethically and transparently sourced, making it a great eco-friendly gift idea! Plus, the website has a whole section on recipes to try out with each of their spice blends to get their creative juices flowing if they don’t know where to start with their new spice mixes!

Find it here.

5. Gold Hoop Earrings

These handcrafted gold hoop earrings are made with sustainably and ethically sourced gold and are perfect for any occasion! They can be dressed up or down, and are the kind of versatile earrings that are an absolute staple.

Find these beautiful earrings here.

6. Zero-Waste lunch kit

This will make a perfect eco-friendly gift for the friend that is passionate about zero-waste or trying to reduce their plastic usage! This set comes with two stainless steel containers with leak-proof lids, making them perfect for any lunches on the go. These are also very handy for camping or outdoors activities, as they are lightweight and sleek. This kit comes with two different sized stainless steel containers, a bamboo utensil, and a book on surviving without plastic as a little extra bonus!

Find the set here.

7. Zero-Waste Morning Routing Gift Box

This eco-friendly gift is for the aspiring zero-waster who is trying to reduce their environmental footprint! This gift box has all the essentials to get started with a zero-waste morning routine, and all the items in the box are sourced from ethical and environmentally friendly brands. It comes with reusable cloth makeup remove rounds (these are also great for applying soaps and lotions!), and solid shampoo and conditioner bars, and more!

Find it here.

7. Wildcrafted Bath Salts

This eco-friendly gift is perfect for the person who loves to pamper themselves or who desperately needs a self-care day! This bath salt is handmade using wild flowers, Epsom salt, and pink Himalayan salt, to make your loved one truly feel like royalty. And, the website that creates this product is focused on creating sustainable and eco-friendly products that are good for you and the planet and have many other self-care items that would make great gifts too 🙂

Find it here.

9. Vegan Leather Ankle Bootie

This eco-friendly gift is for the person in your life who loves fashion or who could use a pair of sturdy and chic booties! These vegan leather ankle booties are exquisitely crafted and are the kind of high quality shoe that are sure to last your loved one a lifetime. Plus, the company, Bhava, that makes these shoes focuses on using eco-friendly and ethical products, and all of their products are 100% vegan and cruelty-free.

Find these boots here.

10. Essential Oil Set

This is the perfect eco-friendly gift kit to get your loved one started with aromatherapy! There are tons of benefits to using essential oils including reducing anxiety, boosting the immune system, improving brain function and more, so you really can’t go wrong with this eco-friendly gift. Additionally, this kit contains natural ingredients (no toxic chemicals!) and is eco-friendly. For anyone into wellness and relaxation, this is a must!

Find it here.

11. A Compostable Phone Case!

To clarify, just because this case is compostable does not mean that it is flimsy or will begin to decompose in weeks. These cases from Pela are made using natural ingredients (no plastic in these baddies!) that can decompose under the right conditions (like in a composter). While we might not think about it so much, plastic phone cases amount to a large amount of waste and these phone cases area clever solution to the problem, making a great eco-friendly gift!

Compared to other phone cases, Pela cases generate 25% less carbon emissions, 35% less water usage, and 70% less waste production. They even have this cool counter on their website that calculates how many plastic bags worth of plastic pela’s customers have prevented generating! (As of now it is 41,858,413).

These cases are also extremely protective, so your loved one won’t have to sacrifice the safety of their phone for the planet. Or the look for that matter because Pela has some of the cutest phone cases designs I’ve seen!

Find the cases here.

12. A Beautiful Vegan Leather Clutch

This classy clutch is made using high-quality vegan leather from Italy! The lining in the handbag is made with a combination of recycled plastic bottles and organic cotton, making it a great sustainable and eco-friendly gift option for the special someone in your life! This clutch and all the other handbags made by the brand Svala are made in Los Angeles with the goal of creating luxury vegan, cruelty-free, and sustainable handbags, so all the products on their website would make a fantastic eco-friendly gift 🙂

Find it here.

Any other gift ideas that I left out?

Let me know in the comments what I missed in this mother’s day gift guide and make sure to subscribe to receive updates when I post something new! If you enjoyed reading this post, make sure to check out some of my other posts below. For a more clothing and fashion related gift guide, check out my post on gifts for the eco-friendly fashion lover!

If you’re interested in cooking, make sure check out my plant-based and vegan recipes including my heavenly chocolate chip banana bread, decadent chocolate oats, Indian-inspired aloo gobi, vegan breakfast scramble, banana oat pancakes and my chickpea, kale, and farro soup. Plus, remember to subscribe down below to get updates when new recipes are posted, and check out my new youtube channel, ecofoodstuff! For a preview of my burrito recipe video, check out the video down below.

Thanks for reading all the way through! Just another reminder to make sure to comment what you think this list is missing or any other gift ideas that you have 🙂