Klean Kanteen Reflect

Name: Klean Kanteen Reflect
Brand: Klean Kanteen

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Silicone is only a gasket/seal — what touches your food is Stainless Steel (304 / 18-8).

Klean Kanteen's flagship plastic-free bottle - three materials only (steel, bamboo, a silicone gasket), so water only ever touches stainless steel.

The verdict: Silicone only

Built from just three materials: 90% post-consumer recycled 18/8 stainless steel, a sustainably harvested bamboo cap top, and one food-grade silicone sealing ring. The unibody bamboo cap is a single piece of stainless steel (steel threads included) capped with bamboo, so the drink and your mouth only ever touch steel. The only non-steel water-adjacent part is the removable silicone gasket that seals the cap - hence silicone-only rather than fully plastic-free.

Verification: Manufacturer confirmed

Lead safety: Tested lead-free

Lead Safe Mama's independent XRF testing has consistently found Klean Kanteen's non-insulated (single-wall) stainless bottles lead-free. This Reflect model is explicitly the single-wall (non-insulated) version with the stainless unibody bamboo cap, so it falls in the construction category covered by that testing - not the separate insulated "Rise Reflect" line, which uses double-wall vacuum construction and has not been independently confirmed lead-free.

Verification: Independently lab-tested

lab-test https://tamararubin.com/2017/02/saferchoices-which-water-bottles-sippy-cups-are-lead-free/
Lead Safe Mama XRF testing states Klean Kanteen's non-insulated bottles are consistently lead-free; insulated models are not recommended due to lack of testing on the sealing area

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What it's made of

Part	Material	Food contact
bottle body 18/8 (304), 90% post-consumer recycled; electropolished interior, no liner	Stainless Steel 304 / 18-8	Yes primary
cap (unibody) single piece of 18/8 stainless steel including the threads; drink never touches plastic	Stainless Steel 304 / 18-8	Yes primary
cap top trim sustainably harvested bamboo finish on top of the steel cap	Bamboo	No
sealing gasket food-grade silicone ring; removable, replaceable	Silicone	Yes seal

The Reflect is a single-wall (non-insulated) stainless bottle designed from the ground up to be plastic-free, with "no plastic, no paint, no compromises" as the pitch. It uses the Stainless Unibody Bamboo Cap - one piece of steel with a bamboo cap - rather than the plastic loop cap that ships on standard Classic bottles. An insulated "Rise Reflect" version with the same bamboo cap is also sold.

Pros

Only three materials; water contacts steel only, seal is silicone
Bamboo cap is genuinely all-steel underneath (threads included)
Unpainted, recycled steel; B Corp brand

Cons

Single-wall version is not insulated
Bamboo cap top needs some care (hand-wash the bamboo, not for hot liquids)
Costs more than the standard plastic-capped Classic

Notes

Sizes: single-wall Reflect in 18oz and 27oz; insulated Rise Reflect in 12/16/20oz

Categories: Water Bottles

Sources

Every material claim above is backed by these. This is the scattered info we centralized.

manufacturer https://www.kleankanteen.com/products/plastic-free-water-bottle-27oz
brand states the Reflect is made from three materials only - recycled 18/8 stainless steel, bamboo, and food-grade silicone
manufacturer https://www.kleankanteen.com/products/stainless-unibody-bamboo-cap
bamboo cap is a single piece of 18/8 stainless steel creating a 100% stainless interior; drinks never touch plastic

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