Composting Is Fun, And You Can Start With Our Handwash Packaging

A little guide to closing the loop, the good way.

You've used the last bit of your Stir It Up handwash powder. The sachet is empty. And now you're standing there wondering, okay, what do I actually do with this?

First, let's talk about what's in your hands.

That little sachet isn't just "eco-friendly packaging" in the vague, feel-good sense of the word. It's home compostable, which means it was designed, from the very beginning, to go back into the earth. The ink you see on the packaging is vegetable ink.

Beneath the sachet is a moisture barrier made from vegetable starch, the same family of ingredients that keeps your kitchen running. Something the soil already knows how to digest.

This is what makes it different from packaging that calls itself "green" but still ends up in a landfill because nobody tells you what to actually do with it.

But, our home compostable sachet has an end destination. And that destination is your garden, your balcony mud pot, or your compost bin.

So, how do you compost it?

It's genuinely simple. Two ways to do it:

Option 1 - The Compost Bin

If you already have a composting setup at home, just toss the empty sachet in with your wet waste. Tear it into smaller pieces, it'll break down faster that way. Give it some time, some patience, and it will decompose completely within 180 days.

Absolutely, leaving no microplastics or harmful toxins behind.

Option 2 -  The Mud Pot Method

Don't have a composter? No problem. Take any mud pot or planter you have at home, dig a small hole in the soil, tear the satchet and drop the pieces, cover it up, and water it normally.

The sachet will break down quietly on its own, enriching the soil as it goes. Your plants, if there are any in that pot, will not complain.

Why does this even matter?

Because most packaging, even the packaging marketed as sustainable is designed for a recycling facility, not your home. It requires industrial composting infrastructure, specific temperatures, specific conditions. For most of us, that means it just goes in the bin anyway.

Home compostable packaging works where you are, with what you have. A pot, soil, water and nothing more. At Bare Necessities, we think a product isn't truly zero-waste until the last square centimetre of it has somewhere to go that isn't a landfill.

The Stir It Up sachet was designed with that last square centimetre in mind, which is what makes it our zero waste footprint product.