1. Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day Basil Dish Soap

Most dish soaps contain harsh chemical detergents, and while, yes, those do effectively clean your pots and pans, they can also irritate your skin. Let's take a look at the ingredients -

Water, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Lauryl Glucoside, Polysorbate 20, Lauramine Oxide, Fragrance, Glycerin, Ocimum Basilicum (Basil) Oil, Carum Petroselinum (Parsley) Seed Oil, Piper Nigrum (Black Pepper) Seed Oil, Quillaja Saponaria (Soap) Bark Extract, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf, Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate, Citric Acid, PEG-5 Cocoate, Methylisothiazolinone, Benzisothiazolinone



2. ECOS Grapefruit Dishmate Dish Liquid

As with Mrs Meyer’s, this soap is made without harsh chemicals and won’t dry out or irritate your hands. Let's take a look at the ingredients -

Water, Sodium Coco-Sulfate (plant-derived surfactant), Cocamidopropylamine Oxide (plant-derived surfactant), Lauramine Oxide (plant-derived surfactant), Phenoxyethanol (preservative), Coco-Betaine (plant-derived surfactant), Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate (plant-derived water softener), Natural Fragrance, Ethylhexylglycerin (preservative), Sorbitan Oleate Decylglucoside Crosspolymer (natural-fragrance solvent), Triethyl Citrate (natural-fragrance solvent), Citric Acid (plant-derived pH adjuster).


3. Seventh Generation Dish Liquid Soap

This dish soap is usually for ultrasensitive buyers who want specifically fragrance- and dye-free natural soap. Let's take a look at the ingredients -

Water, sodium lauryl sulfate (plant-derived cleaning agent), glycerin (plant-derived foam stabilizer), lauramine oxide (plant-based cleaning agent), caprylyl/myristyl glucoside (plant-derived cleaning agent), magnesium chloride (mineral-based viscosity modifier), citric acid (plant-derived pH adjuster), and benzisothiazolinone and methylisothiazolinone (synthetic preservatives).


4. Ecover Natural Plant-Based Liquid Dish Soap

Not all natural dish soaps are preservative-free, which poses a problem for those allergic to preservatives like methylisothiazolinone, which is in 99 percent of dish soaps. But not this soap, which “actually suds” and doesn’t require “half a bottle to get a load done.” Let's take a look at the ingredients -

Water (aqua), Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Lauryl/Myristyl Glucoside, Ethanol, Sodium Chloride, Glycerin, Sodium Citrate, Citric Acid, Fragrance.


5. Better Life Sulfate-Free Dish Soap

Sulfates are the agents that cause soap to foam, but they can irritate sensitive skin, which is if you have dry skin and eczema, you will appreciate this sulfate-free soap from Better Life. Let's take a look at the ingredients -

Purified water, potassium cocoate*, lauryl glucoside*, caprylyl/capryl glucoside*, decyl glucoside*, glycerin*, disodium coco-glucoside citrate*, aloe barbadensis leaf extract*, tocopherol (vitamin E)*.

*Denotes plant - or mineral-derived.