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🧴 Where to donate hotel toiletries and hygiene items
Unused hotel toiletries and other hygiene items are welcome at many shelters, food pantries and hygiene banks. Items like soap, toothpaste and deodorant are always needed and rarely donated.
Before you go
- Only give unused items. Even slightly used toiletries usually can't be accepted.
- Bag liquids in sealed bags so they don't leak.
- Local shelters and food pantries often take toiletries even when they don't list them.
- Toothbrushes, deodorant, razors and pads or tampons are among the most requested items.
561 local places we've checked take hotel toiletries and hygiene items, plus 1 national programs.
National and mail-in programs
These take donations from anywhere in the country, by mail, at partner drop-off points, or through local chapters. Check each one's rules first.
Nationwide
Amenity Aid
- How: Mail to Amenity Aid, 33 Plan Way, Building 3B, Warwick, RI 02886, or drop off at the Warwick office.
- Rules: Seal liquids in sealed bags before mailing. Tax ID 46-2347536; describes itself as a hygiene bank (501(c)(3) status not stated on the page).
- New hygiene products of any size (full, travel or sample)
- Soap/body wash, razors, shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrushes, pads, tampons
- Hotel amenities and airline amenity kits
Not accepted: Used toiletries (even slightly); Leaking or damaged bottles
Local places, by state
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