Liquid Dish Soap has Oil in it Too??!!

I just had learned something new, as I was getting ready to wash my dishes.

A lot of liquid dish soap contains petroleum. Yuck. Is it in everything!!??

According to Seventh Generation, if every U.S. household replaced ONE bottle of 48 oz. petroleum-based dish liquid with a 48% plant-derived product, we could save 248,000 barrels of oil a year. That is enough to heat and cool 14,300 U.S. homes for a year.

Now think if we all did this all the time, for every cleaning product in our house…

Switching to a plant-based liquid dish soap is easy to do. They are reasonably priced, and easy to find at places like Target.

There are additional benefits to using plant-based cleaning products; for example, the bottle of Seventh Generation Natural Dish Liquid I have under my sink:

1. Is fragrance and dye free which reduces toxins in your house - see toxic chemicals blog

2. Uses at least 25% post-consumer recycled plastic – see recycled plastics blog

3. Reduces our dependency on oil – – see reducing oil blog

With enough simple changes like this, we can make a difference in the amount of oil we use in our daily lives. Replacing your current petroleum based dish-liquid with a plant-based product is simple and a great thing all of us Ordinary Environmentalist can do!