Product Review: Method Dish Soap
By Wesley Joseph • Jul 7th, 2008 • Category: Health, Household, Products and Shopping, Recent Posts
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Product Reviewed: Method Dish Soap (Naturally Derived - Ultra Concentrated) “Go Naked”
Place of Purchase: Whole Foods
Purchase Price: $3.00 - $4.00
Product replaced: Petroleum-based dish soaps, specifically for me, Palmolive (I quit using Palmolive more than a year ago and have since been testing several plant-based soaps).
Ingredients: Blend of naturally derived and biodegradable surfactants, corn alcohol, table salt, citric acid, aloe vera gel, vitamin E, Preservative (under 0.1%), purified water
Use: I have used this product for washing dishes and for wiping down counters in my kitchen.
Results: Good, natural dish soap, which foams nicely and has basically no smell. In fact, the bottle says, “zero dyes & perfumes.” This soap was especially good at cutting grease and was long-lasting, from glasses, plates, and silverware, all the way through to the heavy-duty, greasy pots and pans.
Best of all: It was gentle on my hands! I rarely use gloves for washing dishes, as I find them uncomfortable but my hands have not felt dry or irritated by this soap!
Why try it? Try this soap because it does its job! It washes your dishes and is relatively green when compared to petroleum-based dish soaps. Check out more from Method at their corporate website!
The drawback: I dislike the use of corn alcohol in products for the simple reason that it is made by fermenting a food product, putting it into competition with a food that is used for human consumption as well as for feed for animals. The increase in demand for corn drives up consumer prices, but is not nearly the culprit that ethanol has become!
I also do not like the mysterious, “preservative” mentioned as an ingredient, however at under 0.1%, I would be able to overlook it, except that I prefer Seventh Generation’s Dish Liquid.
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Wesley Joseph is the primary editor for EHI. He comes from a strong political science background and is interested in the effect humans' actions have on the environment, how in turn the environment affects humans, and how environmental policy at large and personal actions can both change into positive envirohuman impacts.
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