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Refill stores in Metro Manila to help you jumpstart your sustainability practice
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The arrival of Scoop Wholefoods in Metro Manila has brought renewed interest in reuse and refill, a method that many experts are saying is the most effective way to solve the pervasive plastic pollution, which has been found everywhere by the way, including human blood.
Citing a 2021 analysis conducted in Europe, Greenpeace Philippines said in a 2024 report that refill systems had 12 times less environmental impact that a single-use system.
So Scoop Wholefoods joining a number of refill stores already operating in Metro Manila is good news.
Below, we've rounded up a list of refill stores in case you're not aware there's one right in your neighborhood.
By shopping refill, you won't just help solve an environmental problem, you'll also save some money too. Per Greenpeace, consumers were able to save more than 200% through their Kuha Sa Tingi campaign in 2024.
1. Ritual
Perhaps the pioneering refill store in the country, Ritual opened back in 2010, selling "local, eco-friendly, preferably organic products not enclosed in plastic bags."
It's relocated a few times and now stands in Karrivin Plaza on Pasong Tamo Extension in Makati selling food (coffee and cacao, herbs and spices, grains, flours, vinegars and sauces), personal care products (soaps, shampoos, massage oils), home things (Karol, sponge, cleaning sets).
Ritual also has an outpost in Dumaguete.
5/F Karrivin Studios, 2316 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati. Instagram. Website.
2. Back to Basics Eco-Store
Back to Basics on Maginhawa Street in Quezon City aims to make zero waste living a little easier by offering a wide variety of products — from pantry staples to personal care products, pet care to clothing and accessories — on refill.
Come in with your reusables, shop for what you need, and be surprised by the amount of money you can save from doing away with packaging. We mean: 600g for Cordillera coffee grounds for only P570.
Reducing single-used plastics is BTB's primary advocacy — it has avoided 837,168 pieces of plastics from 2022 and 2025 — but carrying products from women-led, community-based social enterprises also allows them to champion other equally important causes, too.
Tip: Back to Basics has a monthly collection of used cooking oil and coffee grounds for safe and ethical disposal.
30 Maginhawa St., QC. Instagram. Website.
3. Sabon Station
In Pasig, Sabon Station offers household cleaning items on refill. From dishwashing liquid to isopropyl alcohol, from fabric conditioner to car shampoo, Sabon Station stays true to its name.
What more, the products are pretty affordable. Powder detergent starts at P52, while hand soaps are at P30/L,
All you have to do is bring your reusable containers and off you go!
20A Jenny's Talipapa, Brgy Rosario, Pasig. Facebook.
4. Maginhawa Eco-Store
Just a few steps away from Back to Basics is Maginhawa Eco-Store, which calls itself a low impact sari-sari store. It has the usual offerings — soaps, fab con, pantry staples — as well as rice, which retails for something like P100/kilo.
Books, toys, and other accessories are available as well.
16 Maginhawa St. QC. Instagram.
— LA, GMA News
