Better Life Dish Soap

I’ve been on the lookout for a dish soap that is both effective and gentle on the skin, and Better Life’s Lemon Mint dish soap fits the bill perfectly. It tackles greasy dishes with ease, cutting through grime without the need for harsh chemicals. The refreshing lemon mint scent is subtle and pleasant, not overpowering like some other brands. I also appreciate that it’s free from sulfates and parabens, making it a safer choice for my family and the environment. Plus, it doesn’t dry out my hands, even with frequent use. Highly recommend for anyone seeking a natural and efficient dishwashing solution.

I have pretty nasty smell sensitivity -- things that other people can't even tell have a scent, I smell strongly and get headaches from. This soap has no scent that I can tell, and it cleans the dishes fine. Well done.

I am a fan of Better Life products and have been for a while, though this was my first time trying their dish soap. When I was reading reviews before purchasing it, I noticed that some reviews mentioned a weird phenomenon where the dish soap was thick and good when it was first opened, but after a short time, it became very thin and watery and not as good at lathering. This also happened to me! It was really good and thick and great at lathering in the first week, but after that, suddenly the soap has turned a more opaque white color and is super thin. I feel like I have to use twice as much(if not 3x as much!) for it to be the same amount of suds and longevity as before. Overall, are my dishes getting clean? Yes, they are. It just feels a bit wasteful and expensive for me to use this dish soap. After I am finished with my bottles of it, I think I will switch back to the Seventh Generation dish soap, as it holds up great and is it a better price point. I think I will still repurchase several other cleaning products from Better Life, as I have had much better luck with most of those and appreciate how non toxic they are.

The lemon mint scent is fresh without being overpowering, and it actually makes washing dishes a little more pleasant. What really sold me, though, is how gentle it is on my skin. I have sensitive hands that usually get dry or irritated with most soaps, but with this one, I don’t even need to wear gloves. It cuts through grease surprisingly well for a more natural formula, and a little goes a long way. Plus, knowing it's made with safer ingredients and free from harsh chemicals gives me peace of mind — especially in a house with kids and pets. Highly recommend if you want a non-toxic, effective dish soap that smells great and won’t wreck your hands.

I did not think for one second that this would work anything like my beloved Dawn soap that I have used all my life but it works even better! It leaves the plates squeaky clean. It does not leave any residue and leaves a gorgeous shine on all of my plates, especially the flatware. My hands are also feeling much better after using this. There's also one more thing that maybe not a lot of people would care about but I love that it rinses out of my sponge quicker than Dawn. The reason I like this is because I like to mop up the water from around the sink with my sponge after washing the dishes and if my sponge still has soap in it, I'm just spreading bubbles everywhere. I've also bought this dish soap for my mom who has been using Dawn all her life as well and she likes it better, too! I'm trying to switch out any cleansers that have chemicals with natural cleaners and all of the Better Life products that I have tried have worked better than the chemical products I used before. My lungs and hands are a lot happier because I use to cough a lot and get a stuffy nose every time I cleaned the bathroom with chemicals and my hands were always super dry. This has also worked on my mom's hands, too. She always has had peeling hands and when I went to her house the other day she showed me her hands and they were shiny they were so healthy. I will say that I have also switched her hand soap to a natural one so I think those two changes have helped her hands tremendously :)

This is great soap. It really is! When you first open it and use it it's thick, cuts grease, and you know everything is clean. You are able to get one drop at a time which helps if you're washing one item at a time. Then after you've used 1/4 to 1/3 of the bottle, it's like a sleeper agent awakens and the whole rest of the bottle turns like water. So suddenly, while you're getting the same great clean, you're pouring out half of the bottle on one dish, instead of a drop at a time. So much so that both my husband and I asked each other if we added water to the soap. But without fail, this happens EVERY TIME with EVERY BOTTLE. So it doesn't last long after that initial 1/3.

I've been using Better Life products for years. Granite, dish, wood, floor, window...a lot of Better Life cleaners. I love this soap. I do use Dawn for the heavy cleaning of pots and pans so I can't talk about how it works on them, but I love this soap for everything else. It has a nice mild fresh scent, leaves no residue, and dishes are clean. I really like using it for my cat dishes, I know there will be no harmful product left on them. This soap is no longer sold near me so I tried the EverSpring brand, but I found that it solidifies near the spout so I have to regularly unclog it. This soap doesn't do that. I also really appreciate that the bottle was vacuum-sealed in plastic to keep it from spilling.

UPDATE: It's 2 months later and now the rest of the gallon jug has now thinned out completely. The entire thing is now completely watery with literally no concentration whatsoever. I guess the more you have in a container, the longer it takes to thin. See my previous review below to see how bad this soap is. The review score is now zero stars. I decided to switch to a more natural dish soap with aloe for my hands. I went with this one because it's one of the few with lemon scent which is what I like. Though, after smelling it, it's mostly mint and hardly any lemon so that was the first drawback for me. Straight out of the jug it seemed like a fairly good soap. It was thick and concentrated and lathered up good with one or 2 pumps of our glass dispenser by the sink. I thought I found a winner. But after a few days to a week, I pumped the dispenser and instead of thick soap I got watery thin soap which had lost its concentration. I picked up the dispenser and shook it and it was like water inside. At first I thought maybe somebody put water in it as a joke or for some other reason so I kind of dismissed it. After all, soap can't create it's own water right? So I put up with having to pump about 8 times just to wash my hands or anything else since it was so thin with hardly any suds. Once it was almost empty I decided to empty out and clean my dispenser thinking maybe the soap had reacted with the tiny bit of Dawn that was left when I poured it in. I cleaned and rinsed everything, checked that the soap was still nice and thick in its original jug, which it was. Then I refilled the dispenser. It was great. Nice and thick again and washed good just like other brands of dish soap.......for a couple days. After about two days it slowly started thinning again. Now it's like water again. But yet it's still thick in its plastic jug. I can't explain it. But that's what's happening. I wanted to like this soap but I'll have to try a different natural brand when this is gone. Which won't be long having to use 10 pumps at a time.