What Brands Are in The Plastic Detox? The Verified List

A lot of people finish this documentary and immediately start searching for a shopping list: the deodorant, the clothing company, "the plastic detox store." Those searches land on this site every week — often under names people half-remember, like the plastic detox movie, the plastic purge, or just the plastic detox list. They all mean this film. Here is the straight answer, with sources, including the parts we could not verify.

First, a correction you will see repeated elsewhere

It is not a series and it has no episodes. The Plastic Detox is a single documentary film, 1 hour 32 minutes, released on Netflix on March 16, 2026. It was directed by Louie Psihoyos and Josh Murphy and produced by the Oceanic Preservation Society. Plenty of pages describe it as having episodes or segments, including an older version of this very page. That was wrong, and we would rather correct our own record than quietly leave it up.

The premise: six couples experiencing unexplained infertility spend roughly three months reducing their exposure to plastic-related endocrine-disrupting chemicals, principally phthalates and bisphenols, guided by epidemiologist Dr. Shanna Swan, PhD, with lab testing before and after.

Is there an official Plastic Detox store? Yes, and it is not ours

Grove Collaborative's "The Unplastic Shop" is the film's official retail companion, launched alongside the release. We are confident it is official because the Oceanic Preservation Society, the film's own production company, links to it directly from its official site.

We have no affiliate relationship with Grove and earn nothing if you shop there. We are telling you because it is the accurate answer to the question you searched, and we would rather be the site that answers it correctly than the one that buries it.

The clothing brand people remember

The brand behind the most common version of this search is California Cloth Foundry, the natural-fiber, petrochemical-free textile and dye company founded by Lydia Wendt, who appears in the film. It is a small direct-to-consumer specialty label and is not sold on Amazon, so we have nothing to sell you here. It is simply the accurate answer.

What did the participants actually swap out?

This is the question we see asked most often, usually phrased as "what did the couples swap out" or "what did they replace." The film follows the changes at the level of category, and the couples' households moved across roughly these areas over the three months:

• Plastic food storage → glass and stainless steel
• Cling film → beeswax wraps and silicone bags
• Plastic toothbrushes and bottled shampoo → bamboo brushes and shampoo bars
• Chemical sunscreen and fragranced personal care → mineral sunscreen, fragrance-free
• Synthetic fabrics → natural-fiber clothing
• Paper receipts (commonly BPA/BPS-coated) → declined or emailed

What the film does not do is tell you which brand to buy in each category. That gap is why so many people finish it and start searching.

Did Dr. Shanna Swan recommend specific products?

Not in the film. Dr. Shanna Swan, PhD is the environmental and reproductive epidemiologist guiding the couples' protocol, and her role is to frame the science of phthalate and bisphenol exposure and interpret the lab results — not to endorse a shopping list. We have seen this searched as "Dr. Shanna Swan recommendations what to buy," so to be explicit: we found no source showing her endorsing particular consumer brands in this film, and we would treat any page claiming otherwise with suspicion.

What the film actually recommends

The documentary works in categories of exposure, not product placements. The changes the couples make cluster into these areas:

• Glass and stainless steel food storage in place of plastic containers
• Beeswax wraps and silicone bags instead of cling film
• Bamboo toothbrushes and shampoo bars
• Mineral sunscreen and fragrance-free personal care
• Natural-fiber clothing over synthetics
• Declining paper receipts, which are commonly BPA- or BPS-coated

If a site claims to sell "the official documentary products" as an on-screen brand list, it is filling a gap with its own picks. So is anyone else, including us on our other pages. The difference is that we label it.

What we could not verify

So as not to add to the noise, here is what we could not confirm from primary sources: the full brand roster and exact product count inside the official shop; the name of the sixth couple, since the official site refers to six but we could only read five; and claims circulating online that particular supplement or toothpaste brands appear in the film. We found no reliable source for those last ones and would treat them as inaccurate until one exists.

If you want to actually do it

Our 12-week home protocol maps the film's approach to a week-by-week plan, and the complete guide covers the swaps by room. Those pages do include products, but they are our independent editorial picks for the exposure categories the film flags, not documentary-verified items.