Silk Dental Floss

Say hello to your new favorite floss! With a light but refreshing natural mint flavor and zero plastics to be found, this silk dental floss is gonna be your new go-to. Tucked underneath the stainless steel cap is a handy-dandy cap-cutter to help your floss dispense easily every time — and when you’re done flossing simply toss the floss in your backyard compost pile! You’ll feel great keeping plastic out of the landfill, and even better at your next dentist appointment 😁

NOTE: Our silk dental floss vendor has undergone some packaging changes and introduced a NEW floss bundle — the Canister + 2 Refills. Once we sell out of the original Canister + Refill options, we will only be offering the Canister + 2 Refills and Refills Only.

Silk Dental Floss Quick Details:

• 100% plastic free dental floss
• Backyard compostable
• Dentist approved
• Refreshing natural mint flavor
• USDA certified 100% biobased
• PFAS-free
• Refillable glass canister
  

😁 Round out your eco-friendly oral care routine with our zero waste oral care bundle and alcohol-free mouthwash!

Size

Each glass canister measures approximately 2 ¼” tall by ¾” in diameter. Each spool of silk floss is 33 feet long.

Materials

Our eco-friendly dental floss is made with 100% biodegradable silk, coated in vegan candelilla wax and organic peppermint essential oil.

To Use

Got tight teeth? Try this to reduce your chances of the floss breaking or shredding:

1. Pull the floss straight up and out without dragging it along the sharp edges of the hole in the cap, then cut it using the cap-cutter.
   
   
2. After you’ve cut the floss, test the strength by pulling the floss in opposite directions. If it breaks, compost that piece and use the remaining section to floss.
   
   
3. Floss the tight or uneven area of your mouth in an up and down motion. It also helps to slow down just a bit!
   
   
4. As recommended by dentists, be sure to use new parts of the floss as you move through your mouth. This will ensure that the section of the floss you’re using is new for each area of your mouth. (It’ll also prevent germs from spreading from one section to another!)
   

Packaging + End of Life

The Canister + Refill comes 100% unpackaged. The glass canister has a stainless steel cap and is pre-filled with one 33-foot spool of silk floss.

The Canister + 2 Refills comes packaged in an 80% post-consumer recycled paperboard box. The glass canister has a stainless steel cap and is pre-filled with one 33-foot spool of silk floss, and the second spool of floss is packaged inside of a cellophane pouch. The paperboard box can be curbside recycled with paper recycling, and the pouch is certified for home and industrial composting.

The Refills Only includes 2 spools of silk floss and comes packaged in a cellophane pouch inside an 80% post-consumer recycled paperboard box. The cellophane pouch is certified for home and industrial composting, and the paperboard box can be curbside recycled with paper recycling.

The silk floss itself is both industrial and home compostable.

Please be sure to always check with your local industrial composting facility to ensure they accept cellophane or compostable plastics before putting these kinds of items in your industrial compost bin!

Origin

Our eco-friendly silk dental floss is manufactured in Italy, and sourced from a small business who assembles and packages the floss in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The refillable glass canisters are made in China.

Ethical Guarantees

Give-Back Program
Palm Oil Free
Woman-Owned

🌎 You care about the planet. So do we.

Look. I get it. It’s HARD to be an EcoWarrior. Someone who cares about the planet and wants the most sustainable products available - from the ingredients to the packaging to the way that product gets to your hands.

It seems like everywhere we turn, someone, somewhere, is greenwashing us.

But our superpower at A Drop in the Ocean is sorting through the BS, calling it out, and making sure our products are the absolute most sustainable and truly zero waste products we can find.

So on top of all the things we mentioned above about what makes our eco-friendly silk dental floss so sustainable, here’s a few other things you should know:

• We’re actually practicing what we preach behind the scenes. Each year, we track and record all of our trash, and even wrote a whole blog post on it. The tl;dr version is this: on average, we produce less than 0.5 pounds of trash each month. Everything from the packaging our products come in down to the Sharpie we use to write “Fragile” on your box is zero waste to its core.
• We’re an online-only zero waste store - which is highly intentional. It may seem counter-intuitive, but online shopping is actually more sustainable than in-person. I’m a data nerd at heart and I love diving into the research, and there are countless studies that have shown that online shopping is the most sustainable way to get your everyday essentials. Don’t believe me? Check out our whole blog post on the sustainability of online shopping.
• We ship ugly boxes. Your order from A Drop in the Ocean is not going to arrive in a pretty, branded box. It’s gonna show up in a reused tea box, or a donated Amazon box, or maybe even an inside-out Girl Scout Cookies box. All of our shipping materials are always 100% plastic-free and reused as much as possible, with curbside-recyclable paper tape and a post-consumer recycled paper shipping label. It won’t be pretty, but it will be zero waste.

Got more questions about our zero waste products or our practices behind the scenes? Just send us an email! I’m always happy to chat all things eco.