Essentials Crate Box – Should We Review It?

I would like this sub reviewed for a few months so that we can see if the value is there or not. Some of us are new to green producucts where others has been using them for a while. I personally like to learn about new brands to see if they will replace my current products.

I have my routine/favorite brands about my cleaning/personal care products… for dishwasher and laundry, I started using Dropps. They are pods for dishwasher and laundry machine and they come in cardbord boxes which should be recycled. I think they are effective and have often have sale/promotions. I live in NYC apartments where I have to carry my laundry to the common laundry room, so it helps for me to put some in a small container to carry vs. toting heavy liquid container.

For handsoap, I purchased foaming hand soap dispensor and I refill. I can either use foaming hand soap refill or dilute regular liquid handsoap refill to 1-4/1-5 ratio. I have a young child and foaming soap is more fun and easier to spread around the little hands. Same for handwashing dish detergent. I recently bought Dawn sparyer and refill with other dish soaps diluted. Mrs. Meyers has multisurface cleaner “concentrate” which comes in a large bottle where you can mix 1/4 cup of concentrate to a gallen of water. One bottle of this will last a long time. And I use Eurpean Dish Cloths to wipe down kithen counter, stove, dining table etc. to reduce paper towel waste. You can put this cloths into dishwasher to clean/sanitize.

I would love to hear other MSA reader’s tips on how to stay green and on the budget 🙂

No thanks. Like others have said, deceiving marketing and overpriced. We don’t like a rip-off.

Since the box only sends out 4-5 products, not 9, that’s like an average price paying $9-$11 per item. But many of those products in the promo image are $5, like the Meyers cleaner, Honest wipes, Whispering Willow soap dish, JR Watkins hand soap ($6,) etc.

The tumeric candle I’m not sure, but 26oz candles in that brand go for $14 I think, and that’s only 11 oz (looks nice, though.) The glossier mask is $22, but there are so many subs with skincare items that it’s hard to feel like one is getting value if it’s meant to be a hero item. The Earthwise Paperless bamboo towels are $24 though, so those are nice.

I’m guessing from the promo image that there will be one ‘hero’ item worth over $20 per box, plus 3-4 ~$5 filler items.

Wouldn’t it be easier to incorporate a poll for these should we review posts?

This box looks great…will order.thanks

Not really. I’ve learned over the years trying out some ‘greener’ subs that it us less wasteful to just get what I need vs. get items randomly. A lot of Mightfix items just ended up not getting used because they were either dupes of something I had, or were hard to clean. There was another cleaning site msa posted a mrs. Meyers gift set with purchase, a long while back, can’t remember the name – but pretty much every cleaner I got from that website was rubbish. The Mrs. Meyers soap and the sponges were all right, but the floor cleaner was so bad my husband came in just after I’d cleaned the floor with it and said, “wow, our floor really needs scrubbed, huh?” 😛

A lot of other boxes through in useful things from time to time (like produce bags, or the silicon mats in the winter Causebox) so I think I will avoid the random green subs for now.

No need to review.

This is way overpriced. You can purchase the same items for less and choose what you want. Mrs. Meyers is literally $5 or less per bottle and can be purchased numerous places.

I just ordered this one this month with their Black Friday deal.

I have to say I’m really upset. They sent a spoiler email and everything included this month is Covid related. A face mask, hand sanitizer, hand soap, keyless key, and a disinfecting spray. As I’m sure everyone is in the same boat, I already have TONS of these items. Had they sent this when Covid had just started or peaked, I could see that. But around the Holidays? I wanted something uplifting, not depressing.

I ordered this as a Xmas gift for myself thinking this would have useful eco friendly home swaps/self care items. Now I have another reminder to myself of why my Xmas was canceled in the first place.

Also due to Covid, not making as much money so this was the only thing I got myself. And I don’t even want to open it.

No, pics are deceiving as you only receive 4-5 items per box (not the 9 they have pictured). Second, I think most people have the basic green products and isn’t adding more the exact opposite of becoming greener? And it doesn’t seem like a great value at $11 a piece.

Yessss

I’m definitely curious about this one.

Yes please, I would be interested in subscribing to something like this.

Looks like a nice box and the price looks good. I would love to see this reviewed!