Friendly Soap lists its Cleansing Gift Bundle at £12.90, reduced from a regular price of £15.25, and describes the set on the product page as “Vegan, plastic-free, palm-oil-free, preservative-free”. It is one of four stocking-sized items whose prices and stock were read from each shop’s own product data on 13 November 2026, when all four showed as available. Prices and availability change, so both are worth checking again before ordering. None of the links below are affiliate links.
Vegan soap, from a cleansing set to an unscented shaving bar
The Friendly Soap bundle holds three things: a Shea Butter Cleansing Bar in Patchouli & Cedarwood, a five-pack of Face Cleansing Pads made from sustainably sourced wood pulp and soft cotton, and a Natural Bamboo Soap Rack in a tray style that lets water drain away from the bar. The shop says one pad “replaces hundreds of single-use wipes”. Its bars are described as biodegradable, plant-based, cruelty-free and made by hand without preservatives or sulfates.
The Wild Sage + Co Shaving Soap Unscented 150ml was £13.50 at Plastic Freedom, with the listing flagging only two left at the time of reading. The page opens on the shopper who has “switched to a plastic-free razor”. The soap is made with a base of olive oil, coconut oil and shea butter, with French green clay, and is meant to be worked into a lather with a traditional bristled shaving brush. The retailer’s feature list reads: plastic-free, 100% natural, vegan, no palm oil, no preservatives, no parabens or fragrances, and “Homemade in the Wild Sage Co cottage in the Herefordshire countryside”.
Bars and balms made at home cover similar ground, and Eluxe has a list of plastic-free homemade Christmas gifts.
Dorset chocolate in plastic-free packaging
Chococo’s 47% Colombia Milk Chocolate Honeycombe bar, 120g, was £6.50 at Plastic Freedom and marked in stock. The chocolate is single origin, made exclusively for Chococo in Colombia, and the crunchy honeycombe pieces are handmade at Chococo with local Dorset honey. The listing gives three flags for the bar: single origin, “Handmade in Dorset, UK” and “Plastic Free Packaging”.
Chococo says on the same page that it launched selection boxes without plastic inserts in 2002, and that “Today, 100% of our packaging is plastic-free and is either compostable or recyclable.” A bar of this size fits a stocking, and it covers different ground from a plastic-free advent calendar.
Bamboo cotton swabs, and what the stocking goes in
The cheapest item on the list is The Humble Co’s Natural Cotton Swabs, 100 pieces for £2.00 on the brand’s own shop. Each swab has a bamboo stick and 100% cotton tips, with a spiral tip the brand says is for precise, gentle touch-ups on ears and makeup. The pack is free from BPA, PFAS and PTFE and is verified by The Vegan Society. On packaging, the description runs to two short lines: “Paper packaging. Recycle as paper.”
Wrapping is the other half of a plastic-free stocking. For wrapping, Eluxe’s guide to zero-waste Christmas gift wrapping has more options. Larger items for under the tree sit in the main Christmas gift guide.
Delivery packaging counts as much as the product for anything bought online. Plastic Freedom says its orders are “Packed without any plastic, always!” and that it has shipped plastic-free “since the day we started on January 22nd 2018”.
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