Premium Bamboo Toilet Paper - 27 roll box (3 packs of 9)
A tree takes thirty years. This takes about one.
Conventional toilet paper is made from wood pulp, which means a tree that spent decades growing gets turned into something used once and flushed within seconds. Put like that it's a slightly absurd arrangement, and it's only normal because it's always been done that way.
Bamboo is a grass. Cut a cane and the root system is still there, sending up replacements — a harvestable crop in a year or so rather than a generation. Same paper, same job, without the arithmetic.
The roll and the core are both bamboo here, and the packaging is plastic-free. It's a small thing to change about a house, which is rather the point: it takes no effort at all and you'll buy it either way.
Against the supermarket pack
The job is the same and we're not going to pretend otherwise. What differs is what it started as, what the packaging leaves behind, and whether the roll count actually tells you anything.
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Soft enough for every day |
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Available in bulk |
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Made from a grass that regrows, not a felled tree |
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Bamboo core as well as bamboo paper |
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Plastic-free packaging |
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Ply and sheet count published per roll |
Made from what grows back
Zaremora started with a simple question: what are the things you use every day actually made of? Toilet paper is the purest version of it — a product nobody thinks about for a second, bought on autopilot, used once.
Bamboo is a grass. It regrows from the same root system after cutting and is harvestable in about a year, where a pulpwood tree needs decades. For something designed to be flushed, starting with the fast-growing option is the obvious call.
We publish what things are made of, including the parts that aren't plant-based. Here that list is short: roll, core and packaging are all paper or bamboo.
Questions
Is it safe for a septic tank?
It's plain bamboo paper with nothing added to make it stronger when wet, so it breaks up the way toilet paper is meant to. The thing to bear in mind is that this is a 3-ply sheet — it's thicker than a budget 2-ply, so use what you need and flush rather than sending half a roll down at once. If you're on an older septic system that already gives you trouble, that advice goes double, and it's true of any premium paper rather than anything particular to bamboo.
Is bamboo paper scratchy?
That's the reputation, and it comes from early recycled and unbleached papers rather than from bamboo itself. Bamboo fibre is naturally long and smooth, which is what makes it work for this. At 3-ply there's enough substance that you're not compensating with quantity, which is usually what makes cheap paper feel rough in practice.
How long will a box last?
These are double rolls at 300 sheets each, so a box goes roughly twice as far as the same number of standard rolls. As a rough guide, a two-person household gets a few months out of a 48-roll box and a single person considerably longer. Check the per-roll price on each box — the larger one works out cheaper per roll.
Where am I going to put 48 rolls?
A fair question, and worth asking before you order rather than when the box is in the hallway. It's one carton rather than loose rolls, so it stacks in a garage, a loft or the bottom of a wardrobe. If storage is genuinely tight, the smaller box exists for exactly that reason.
Is the core bamboo too, or just the paper?
Both. A lot of otherwise thoughtful paper still comes on a conventional cardboard core, which is a small thing but an odd one to overlook. Here the roll and the core are both bamboo.
What about the packaging?
Plastic-free. No shrink film round the rolls and no plastic outer on the box, which matters more than it sounds — plastic film is the part of a supermarket multipack that nothing can be done with once it's off.
Why bamboo rather than recycled paper?
Both avoid felling new trees, and recycled paper is a perfectly reasonable choice. The differences are in feel and in what's in it: recycled pulp is made from paper that has already been through the world, so it tends to produce a shorter, coarser fibre. Bamboo is a virgin fibre that happens to grow back in a year, which gets you the softness of new paper without the tree.
What if the box arrives damaged?
Photograph it before you open it and get in touch. A scuffed carton usually means the rolls inside are fine, but if any have been crushed or got wet in transit we'll put it right.