Reuse your Pleasant State glass spray bottle: the Australian refill cleaners that fit

By the Resparkle team, a small family business based in Brisbane. Last updated: 2026-06-03.

Mother attaching the trigger spray to a Resparkle glass bottle at the kitchen counter, the bottle-reuse routine in practice

Pleasant State shut its doors on 27 January 2026, but your glass spray bottle is still as good as the day you bought it. The bottle was always the point of the system: a reusable vessel built to outlive any single brand of refill. If you still have one in your cupboard, please don't throw it out. Here is how to clean it, which Australian refill systems fit it, and how to have a new spray cleaner mixed and labelled in under five minutes.

Why the bottle is the asset

The most valuable thing a Pleasant State customer ever bought was the glass spray bottle itself. The cleaner inside was a consumable; the bottle is infrastructure.

Glass spray bottles are infinitely reusable. They do not leach, they do not stain, and they wash up cleanly between products. The only failure-prone part is the trigger spray on top, which is replaceable on its own for a few dollars. Reusing the bottle prevents another single-use plastic bottle from entering the waste stream, which was a big part of why most Pleasant State customers bought in. The brand is gone; the principle that drew you to it is not.

Step 1: prep the bottle for a new refill system

Before you decant anything new, give the bottle a proper reset. This is standard household practice (not a brand instruction): it stops residue from the old cleaner reacting with whatever you put in next, and it makes sure surfactants behave the way the new formula expects.

A five-minute checklist:

  1. Empty the bottle. Spray out whatever is left until the trigger runs dry.
  2. Rinse with warm water. Fill, shake, and empty two or three times.
  3. Wash with warm soapy water. A drop of dish soap, fill, shake hard for thirty seconds, then rinse thoroughly. Run warm water through the trigger spray itself by pumping it five or six times with clean water in the bottle.
  4. Sterilise. Either pour in just-boiled water (let it sit for two minutes, then tip out), or use a 1:1 white vinegar and water solution and leave it for ten minutes. Both kill anything that may have been growing in the dip tube.
  5. Dry fully. Inverted, on a dish rack, overnight. Water in the bottle when you pour in a new concentrate will throw off the dilution.
  6. Label it. A small piece of masking tape with the cleaner name and the date you mixed it. Especially important if you are switching between cleaner types (bathroom vs. kitchen, for example): you don't want a bottle that previously held a bathroom cleaner to be storing a kitchen surface spray without a proper clean and a new label.

Once it's clean, dry and labelled, you're ready to pick a refill system.

Step 2: choose a refill system that fits

There are four sensible options for a Pleasant State customer with a clean, empty glass spray bottle. We have listed them in the order we'd actually recommend, with the one that most closely mirrors the original "drop a tablet in, add water, shake" experience first.

Option 1: Resparkle All Purpose Cleaner sachets (closest match)

This is the most direct philosophical match to what Pleasant State offered: a plant-fibre sachet that you drop into your existing 500ml glass spray bottle, top up with water, and shake. Same mechanical action, same end result, same plastic-free refill principle.

  • What you get: the All Purpose Cleaner kit is $32 for 1L (500ml reusable glass spray bottle plus two plant-fibre refill sachets). One sachet makes 500ml of finished cleaner.
  • How it works: pour the sachet into your bottle, add water to the fill line, shake to dissolve. The whole process takes about thirty seconds.
  • What's in it: coconut surfactants, citric acid, sodium bicarbonate, potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate, plus eucalyptus and lavender essential oils. Every ingredient is EWG rated 1.
  • What it cleans: kitchen, bathroom, ovens, stovetops, marble, timber, granite.
  • Plastic-free credentials: 100% plant-based, vegan, cruelty-free, Australian-made, plastic-free refills (the sachet is industrially compostable), no parabens, no chlorine, marine-life safe, pet-safe, antibacterial.

If you only want the refill sachets and not the bottle, that's the version most Pleasant State customers will want: the kit exists so people without a bottle can buy one, but you already have one. Whichever version suits, the sachet pours into a 500ml spray bottle exactly as it would into the Resparkle one.

Option 2: Zero Co cleaning refills

Zero Co sells cleaning concentrate refills in soft pouches designed to top up reusable bottles. The pouches are not plastic-free (they're a soft plastic collected through Zero Co's own return program), but they are a meaningful reduction on a rigid plastic bottle. Different cleaners use different dilution ratios, so check the label on the specific pouch before pouring. Compatibility with a Pleasant State spray bottle is not formally tested by either brand, but the format (concentrate plus water in a reusable spray bottle) is the same idea.

Option 3: bulk eco refills from independent eco stores

If you have a Biome, The Source Bulk Foods or Naked Foods nearby, most of them stock bulk concentrate liquids you can decant by weight into a container you bring in. You take your clean bottle in, fill it (or fill a refill jar and decant at home with the right water dilution), and pay by the gram or millilitre. This is the most flexible option if you already shop bulk for pantry items. Dilutions vary by product, so follow the in-store sign or the bulk tap label.

Option 4: DIY (for some surfaces, not all)

A 1:1 mix of white vinegar and water makes a passable glass and surface spray for everyday smudges. A few drops of liquid castile soap in 500ml of water makes a mild general cleaner. These are honest, cheap options for some surfaces (mirrors, glass, light kitchen wipe-downs), but they are not suited to natural stone (vinegar etches marble and granite), and they are not as effective on heavy grease as a properly formulated surfactant-based cleaner. We mention DIY because it's useful in some contexts, not because it's our top recommendation for general cleaning.

Sachet vs liquid refill: a quick format note

Among Pleasant State customers, the appeal of the original system was usually two things at once: the glass bottle, and the no-plastic refill. If the no-plastic refill mattered to you, the sachet format is the closest philosophical match.

A sachet refill is plastic-free at the point of purchase: the wrap is plant fibre, industrially compostable, and shelf-stable. A liquid refill arrives in a soft pouch, which is less plastic than a rigid bottle but is still plastic, and most household kerbside recycling streams won't take it (a few brands run their own collection programs). Both are improvements on a single-use spray bottle. If your reason for going to Pleasant State in the first place was specifically about keeping plastic out of your home altogether, the sachet is the closer fit; if the priority was reducing the volume of plastic without eliminating it, a liquid pouch is fine.

A note on your trigger spray

The trigger spray on top of a glass bottle is the part that fails first. After a year or two of daily use, the small spring inside the mechanism can corrode, the dip tube can crack, or the nozzle can clog. None of that means you need a new bottle.

Replacement trigger sprays in the standard 28/410 thread size (which fits most 500ml glass spray bottles, including the ones Pleasant State sold) are available from most refill brands. Resparkle stocks them as a replacement part, and so do most eco refill stores. If your trigger is still pumping cleanly, you don't need a new one. If it's stiff, hissing, or only spraying intermittently, swap it out and keep the bottle.

What this looks like in practice

You open the laundry cupboard. There's the glass Pleasant State bottle, empty, sitting next to a tin of bicarb. You rinse it under warm tap water, squirt in a drop of dish soap, shake for thirty seconds, rinse again, and pump clean water through the trigger five or six times. You dry it on the rack for an hour while the kids are at the park.

When you get back, you drop in a Resparkle All Purpose Cleaner sachet, fill the bottle to the line with cool tap water, screw the trigger back on, and shake for thirty seconds. You write "All Purpose, 03/06" on masking tape and stick it on the side. Done. Five minutes of hands-on time. The system survives the brand.

Mother and toddler refilling a Resparkle glass spray bottle from a concentrate, the same just-add-water mechanic that fits a Pleasant State bottle

An honest caveat: when to replace the bottle

This is a how-to about reusing what you already have, but it would not be useful if we pretended every old bottle is fine. Two situations where you should retire a Pleasant State bottle rather than refill it:

  • The glass is cracked or chipped at the rim. A cracked bottle can fail under pressure when you shake it, and a chipped rim won't seal properly against the trigger gasket. The cleaner will weep down the side of the bottle.
  • The trigger is broken in a way a replacement won't fix. If the threaded collar that screws onto the bottle is cracked, a new trigger spray will not seat properly. In that case the safest thing is to retire the bottle (recycle the glass through kerbside) and start fresh.

In those cases, an All Purpose Cleaner kit (which includes a fresh 500ml bottle and a working trigger) is a clean way to start over without throwing the principle out with the bottle.

Switch in five minutes

Your Pleasant State spray bottle was always the most valuable part of the system you bought. It's still as good as it was on day one. Wash it, dry it, drop in a sachet, fill with water, label it, and you're set.

The Resparkle All Purpose Cleaner is the closest match to the format Pleasant State customers were used to: plant-fibre sachet, glass bottle, just add water. If you only need the refills and already have a bottle, that's all you need. If you'd like a spare bottle (or a fresh trigger spray) alongside the sachets, the full kit covers both.

The brand is gone. The cupboard is still useful.

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By the Resparkle team, a small family business based in Brisbane. Last updated: 2026-06-03.

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