The Best Natural Dish Soaps on Amazon, According to Hyperenthusiastic Reviewers

Most dish soaps contain harsh chemical detergents, and while, yes, those do effectively clean your pots and pans, they can also irritate your skin. One customer says that this Mrs. Meyer’s dish soap doesn’t leave her hands “cracked, peeling and itchy,” but it does actually clean her dishes, which is more than she can say for most other “natural or natural-ish” dish soaps. With Mrs. Meyer’s, she no longer has “to be crazy diligent about wearing gloves.” She loves the scent, too. According to another reviewer, “it smells like summertime.” If that’s not appealing to you, the soap also comes in Basil and Honeysuckle fragrances. But the soap isn’t just good-smelling, it also cleans effectively. “Holy cow,” begins one reviewer who uses this soap on his greasiest frying pans, and was surprised to learn that it’s all natural. “There is just no cleaner feeling. Your magical liquid has brought harmony to our household,” he concludes.

The ultrasensitive buyers of this group specifically wanted fragrance- and dye-free natural soap. As one customer puts it, “Our world is filled with chemicals and chemical smells and more and more and enough is enough.” He steps down off of his (dish)soap box for a second, though, to let us know that this soap does “bubble plenty and works very well.” One woman who is allergic to most dish soaps says this is the first she hasn’t reacted to. “For people sensitive to fragrances, this is the best dish soap,” she says. Plus, “it does a great job at getting the dishes clean,” according to her.

Sulfates are the agents that cause soap to foam, but they can irritate sensitive skin, which is why reviewers with dry skin and eczema alike appreciate this sulfate-free soap from Better Life. “Before I realized that certain very pricey name brand dish soaps turned my hands into granny hands, I was paying a lot more for soap that was bad for my skin,” begins one reviewer who has tried many natural dish soaps but says this is the only one that doesn’t irritate her hands. Plus, “it takes off grease, found that many of them don’t do that well.” Many other customers say that you don’t sacrifice efficacy for this soap’s natural ingredients. One such reviewer assures others that this soap cleans well, saying, “I can literally hear my fingers squawking as they glide across my ever so clean dishes. This soap has a light, clean scent.” And over two dozen other five-star reviewers appreciate this soap’s pleasant “light minty aroma,” including one who has scent sensitivities but says Better Life “smells wonderful” and “does not make me ill.”

“As a new mom, it didn’t even occur to me to wash my daughters bottles with anything but dish soap. Why waste money on some fancy bottle soap when dish soap does the same thing? Boy was I WRONG,” says one mom. After buying Dapple, “the difference is incredible,” she says. “It removed all of the breast milk residue all off the bottle parts and was noticeably cleaner.” Another mom is also hooked and will “never go back to just using regular dish soap.”

More than half of all five-star reviewers say this soap is great for travel. According to one mom, “These are one of the best things I purchased for traveling with a baby. We used to bring 3-4 bottles with us when traveling and then we would get home and have to clean them all now we just bring 1 bottle and just do a quick clean in a bathroom sink with these when we are out and about.” Plus, she says they’re small, “so they don’t take up a lot of room” in your bag. Another reviewer likes that it doesn’t leak when you throw it in your bag, and one more says that one bottle of this soap lasts a surprisingly long time. She used it for three nights while camping through Yosemite and said one bottle was “more than enough.”