Dish soap can clean a lot … but not everything 🧼🚫 Find out what NOT to clean with it. We've all done #3
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5 Things You Shouldn’t Clean with Dish Soap
To clarify, this is about conventional store-bought liquid dish soap made for hand-washing dishes. If your dish soap is a traditional all-purpose soap like a traditional hard soap (including olive oil soaps like Marseille, Castile, Aleppo, etc or other gentle, simple soaps) or Dr. Bronner’s, you can use it to wash yourself and, in a pinch, your hair or a pet, although hair and fur are better washed with shampoo, which is simply soap formulated for washing hair or fur. I use a simple Aleppo soap, supposedly more gentle on skin than pure olive oil soap because some of the olive oil is replaced with bay laurel oil, for washing my dishes with a sponge and for washing my body in the shower. But I also use shampoo and conditioner on my hair. Reputable all-purpose vegetable oil and animal fat soaps, what in the past we’d just call “soap”, are still readily available. You might want to buy different soaps for different purposes, but if your concern like me is a soap that’s gentle on your skin and pure of anything you don’t want on your plates or on and in your body, then you might choose the same kind of soap for washing yourself and your dishes, as I did.