10 Best Dish Soaps for Spotless Dishes of 2024

Dr. Bronner’s liquid soap can do more than just wash your dishes. You can also use it for laundry, mopping, cleaning surfaces, and appliances, washing pets, shaving, and much more. If you’re looking for an all-in-one product, this is definitely one to try.

Plus, this soap is both kind for your body and the planet. It’s made with biodegradable and all-natural ingredients. It’s vegan, too.

There are no synthetic preservatives, detergents, or foaming agents. Lastly, it’s all wrapped up in a 100 percent recycled bottle.

If you want a lot of bang for your buck, Dr. Bronner’s soap is three times more concentrated than conventional cleaners. Follow the instructions on the back to know how to dilute it for various purposes.

Finally, if you aren’t a fan of the peppermint scent, this soap is available in seven other scents, including unscented.

Sometimes, you need something with extra power. The Palmolive Ultra Dish Soap is well-loved for its grease-busting qualities. So if you’ve got big messes to clean, then this is the dish soap for you.

It has five main superpowers: easily cutting grease, fighting odors, leaving behind zero residue, super-concentrated, and it removes 24-hour stuck-on food. We think these superpowers are unbeatable. This soap might make the task a little less daunting if you hate washing dishes.

But that’s not all it’s good for. It can clean bacteria from your hands, wash your car, and it can pre-treat laundry stains. And finally, it can clean your BBQ grill.

This concentrated formula is tough on grease and soft on hands. Plus, it’s phosphate-free.

Are you looking to save money in the long run and can buy in bulk? Then we recommend the Seventh Generation Ultra Power Plus.

This pack of 65 ounces of dish soap for a fair price. Plus, it has 20 percent more cleaning power than Seventh Generation’s original formula. A little goes a lot further with this one!

You’ll also love that this product is made with 95 percent biodegradable and plant-derived ingredients. The only synthetic ingredients are the preservatives.

As for the other ingredients? Zero synthetic fragrances, dyes, phosphates, or triclosan. The lovely fresh citrus scent is made from 100 percent essential oils and botanical ingredients, making your dishwashing routine safe and effective.

Although it’s mostly natural, Seventh Generation still uses a PlantTech formula to cut grease. This advanced technology fights through stuck on foods using only plant-based ingredients. You’re left with sparkling clean dishes, even if the food has been sitting on the dishes for a while.

If you live in a hard water area, you may be familiar with the stains on all your dishes, glassware, and silverware. Well, with the Ecover Zero Dish Soap, hard water stains can be a thing of the past.

This product contains water softeners — sodium citrate and citric acid — to make the soap work better in hard water areas. This also prevents hard water stains.

The Ecover soap is also made from plant-based ingredients, so it’s an eco-friendly, non-toxic, and biodegradable option. It has no fragrance, no dyes, and no chlorine. Plus, it’s never tested on animals.

It’s still fantastic at cutting grease and sudsing up, so your dishes feel cleaner than ever before! One squeeze is enough to clean a sink full of dirty dishes, removing stuck-on food while remaining gentle on your skin.

While many of our liquid dish soap recommendations are eco-friendly, why not go the extra mile with a soap bar? This Farmhouse Basic Collection bar can help you cut down on plastic waste and packaging.

This soap bar has only three ingredients: saponified coconut oil, filtered water, and essential oils (unless you choose the unscented option). Simple, but pretty effective!

You can use it for your dishes by swishing the bar in the water, running it under the faucet, or lathering it on a sponge or cloth. Then wash your dishes as usual.

We love that you can use this in other areas of the home, too. It’s excellent for cleaning floors, your hands, walls, surfaces, high chairs, baby toys, and stains on laundry!

Customers love how long this lasts in comparison to standard dish soap. So while it may be a higher upfront cost, you could save money in the long run.

Many dish soaps can be irritating to hands. In our house, we always use rubber gloves to do our dishes, but not everybody likes the feel of rubber gloves. If that’s you, and you still have sensitive skin, then we recommend the Dawn Ultra Gentle Clean.

This soap is specifically designed to be gentle on hands. So you can wash a sink full of dishes without that rough, uncomfortable feeling on your hands.

But just because it’s kind on the skin doesn’t mean it’s ineffective on dishes. In fact, it contains twice as much grease-cleaning power as the leading bargain brand! So if you’ve got dishes with stuck-on food, it’ll be no match against this soap.

Scented with a nice pomegranate fragrance, this provides a fruity aroma in the kitchen as you clean up after each meal.

Looking to try out a dish soap bar? Check out the Pre de Provence soap bar.

This soap bar is a multi-use bar. You can use it for dishes, shampooing, laundry, stain removal, and other various cleaning uses. It’s been specifically designed to remove stains and residue from grease, oil, and grime, making it incredible for dishes!

To use, shave off the soap flakes and add them to the warm water before doing your dishes. It’s made with a minimum of 72 percent olive oil, so it’s moisturizing on your skin but also effective at removing dirt from dishes.

This soap bar is safe and natural, as well as being biodegradable. Although you may be skeptical of these ingredients, customers rave about this soap when it comes to dishes. If you’re unsure, purchase this and another soap just in case you’re not a fan of this bar.

This scented dish soap is made with 100 percent plant-derived, non-toxic, and biodegradable cleaning ingredients. If you want something without synthetic fragrances, SLS, SLES, ethoxylates, dyes, parabens, and other nasties, this is the dish soap for you.

This dish soap is safe around your kids and pets. It’s never tested on animals. When you drain the soapy water away, you can rest assured that it’s kind on waterways and in the sea, ocean, or lakes without harming aquatic life.

Often, people confuse natural with ineffective. But this natural dish soap is a good grease-buster.

With hot water, a couple of drops of this soap, and a good dish scrubber, you can say goodbye to grease. It may not be as instantaneous as traditional dish soap, but we think the extra elbow grease is a small price to pay for an all-natural product.

Green tea and lime — doesn’t that sound lovely? This naturally scented dish soap provides a refreshing and tropical scent while you’re washing dishes. The scent is quite strong, so if you don’t like powerful fragrances, we recommend looking at some of our other options.

Doctors create this soap. It’s specifically manufactured to be gentle on skin but tough on dishes. The ingredients are all sourced from plants and minerals, too.

Unlike some other natural soaps, this one suds up generously. It can clean an entire sink of dishes with just a teaspoon of soap!

What other benefits does this soap boast? Incredible cleaning power. It can quickly cut through grease, the suds rinse away quickly, it doesn’t leave behind residue, and it works in hard water!

With one bottle, you can clean more than 150 sinks full of dishes.

While most soaps will remove bacteria, some families prefer something antibacterial. This ensures the bacteria is killed rather than removed.

The Dawn Ultra Antibacterial soap is super powerful, so you can finish cleaning your dirty dishes in less time. It has twice the grease power of the leading bargain brand, so you can happily scrub clean your dishes, no matter what’s stuck on them.

We think you’ll enjoy the refreshing scent of juicy oranges.

Lastly, you can use this as a hand soap while you’re in a hurry. We don’t recommend it as a replacement for regular hand soap because it’s not super moisturizing. But it will definitely kill bacteria on your hands.