Cost: $18 + tax
The Goods: “This Solid Dish Soap is 100% natural, vegan, Leaping Bunny Certified cruelty-free and palm oil-free. Our labels are 100% biodegradable and made with plant-based inks on FSC certified paper.”
Manufactured in: Vancouver, BC
Overall Impression
I really wanted to like this. I’m always looking for plastic-free options, but this just did not hold up. I started using the soap on August 16. It is October 15 at the time of writing, and you can see that most of the soap is already gone. We primarily use a dishwasher so generally only use this to wash our pans, and we’ll be lucky to get 3-months’ use out of it. I can buy my naturally-derived, though it comes in a plastic container, liquid dish soap for around $4 and it’ll last me at least 6 months. This is despite the website saying each soap cube replaces up to 3 bottles of liquid soap. Where do they come up with these numbers?
Assuming the price point and short lifetime didn’t bother me, there are still 3 factors that would keep me from buying this soap again.
- The smell. I cannot stand the smell and would often go looking for what was rotting, and then realize it was just the soap. It makes for an unpleasant experience while washing, and also if any scent gets left on the dish.
- It does not cut grease at all. This is a major issue when I’m only really using it to clean pans. I could only get the grease off with hot water and hard scrubbing with the scrubber brush it came with.
- The dish it came with has a poor design and basically overfills with water and if you’re not regularly manually draining it, which I have to do now, be prepared to encounter a counter caked with soap residue. That was a fun time trying to scrub off. /sarcasm
I like the idea, but don’t like the execution. If someone else has a recommendation for a similar product that might work better, let me know! I’m always up for finding and reviewing new things.
wanderingfawn 
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