7 Eco-Friendly, Zero-Waste & Non-Toxic Dish Soaps and Dishwasher Detergents For a Sparkly Clean
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Non-Toxic Dish Soap & Dishwasher Detergents
Are you searching for non-toxic dishwasher detergents and soaps?
Nowadays, several brands offer eco-friendly and sometimes even zero-waste soaps for a greener and healthier kitchen. It is essential to use soaps that do not contain harmful chemicals for our health, water systems, and land. Many of these brands offer subscription services where you can easily get them delivered to your home when you run low.
Blueland
The Dish Duo
$34
Blueland is on a mission to reinvent household products to end single-use plastic waste. Its products are all refillable, which means that you buy the bottle once and you then only need to purchase the refills.
Blueland only uses ingredients that are on the EPA Safer Chemical Ingredients List, and all of them are vegan and cruelty-free.
The brand is also Climate-Neutral and B Corp certified, and all its products and packaging received the Cradle To Cradle certification.
Meliora Dish Soap
$9.99
Meliora sells sustainable home cleaning and laundry products, all of which are Leaping-Bunny certified. The company formulates its products using only a short list of natural ingredients, such as baking soda, soap made from organic coconut and sunflower oil, sodium percarbonate, washing soda, organic essential oils, and glycerin produced as a byproduct of soapmaking. The brand is a B Corporation and a member of 1% For The Planet, and all its products are MADE SAFE certified and rated A by the Environmental Working Group.
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Castille Zero-Waste Dishwashing Kit
EarthHero
$36 - *use code SustainablyChic10 for 10% off
This kit comes with a highly concentrated 12oz block of castile soap that's handmade in the USA, a bamboo and recycled plastic dish brush, a copper scouring pads and two Swedish dish cloths to up your cleaning game!
Cleancult
Dishwasher Tablets $14.45
Liquid Dish Soap $15.45
Clean Cult is a sustainable cleaning brand that has created a smart refill system for cleaning products.
All the products are also cruelty-free and Leaping-Bunny certified, and you can choose between different all-natural scents that will remind you of nature.
If you do not already have a bottle at home, Clean Cult sells several kinds of reusable, shatter-resistant glass bottles with a protective silicone base to prevent them from breaking.
Dropps
Dishwasher Detergent Pods
$18.75 with subscription
Dropps is one of the best zero-waste cleaning brands you can find!
It has everything you may need, from different laundry detergents to dish sprays to all kinds of cleaning tools. Dropps discloses all its ingredients, so you know exactly what you are buying! The brand even sells all-natural cellulose sponges, Swedish dishcloths made from FSC-certified cellulose and repurposed cotton, wool dryer balls, and different kitchen brushes made of bamboo, sisal, and coconut fibers.
Public Goods
Dish Soap $4.25
Dishwasher Detergent $6.95
Public Goods has a large selection of cleaning products and cleaning tools, all of which are very affordable. They even sell organic castile soap, which can be used to clean everything around the home, from clothes to surfaces to dishes! All the products are formulated with safe, non-toxic ingredients and are free of sulfates, parabens, and other harmful chemicals. The bottles are also made from 100% recycled plastic, every shipment is carbon-neutral, and the brand plants a tree for every order placed.
ThreeMain
Liquid Dish Soap with Bottle $12.99
Liquid Dish Soap Refill $7.25
ThreeMain is the newest cleaning brand I’ve introduced into our household, and it’s been great! Their refillable bottles help reduce waste by 80% - less plastic, water, energy, and carbon than a standard cleaning bottle.
I suggest beginning with their Starter Kit since it takes care of the major household cleaners you use daily.