Ripple Living

This zero waste shop from Sophie Rae is an exciting and welcome addition to Roath, Cardiff's retail scene, having opened in late 2018 after a high profile crowdfunding campaign. It's stylish, great value, and inspirational.

There around 160 dry bulk wholefoods – pulses, grains, nuts, seeds, dried fruits, cereals – “Everything you can’t find not in plastic in a supermarket,” says Sophie – which are supplied to Ripple by Bristol ethical cooperative Essential in 20kg paper sacks. Customers bring along their reusable jars, bottles and ice cream tubs (whatever you want really) which they weigh before shopping and then again once they’ve filled them with a product, and a bar code label is produced for scanning at the till. The shop also sells natural beauty products, many of which happen to be made in Wales, such as lip balm from Bridgend, as well as sustainable home ware, cleaning and laundry products, and honey.

We wish them the best of luck!

Awesome idea. Environmental products and seemingly high quality and where possible local produce. Love this place. Now we’ve scouted the place we know what to do. Cardiff needs more places like this!

Visited today and the shop was great, really simple and easy to use and the staff were really lovely and helpful! Would definitely recommend visiting! They had jars and things for sale incase you needed extra/forgot yours and bags to put smaller things in - like the chocolate cherries and almonds which were amazing! Can't wait to go back :)

Everything is natural in this shop. I like the slippers by the window.

Looking to reduce your single use plastic, great shop with a wide variety of items for sale. Bring your own containers or buy containers. Lots of great ideas for alternative options.

The ripple team are always friendly and helpful. To the uninitiated zero waste of living might seem difficult, but Ripple offers a wide range of ethically sourced food and household products for every home/occasion. Be brave, grab a couple of jars or tupperwares and go find out what's in store for you!

When this place opened I thought it might be a gimmick or too expensive. How wrong I was. Unbelievably reasonable (and sometimes downright cheap) products of a great eco friendly quality and the staff are engaging and helpful. Brilliant.

Really great shop. There are lovely, thoughtful gifts in the lifestyle side (wish they had room for more decorative home items but it is a decent selection) and the food and produce side is really great. The spice selection is big and the spices are really cheap, and there's lots of great staples. A fantastic local business to support!