The best kitchen soap is versatile
Kitchen Soap
The best kitchen soap is a versatile, plastic free, natural liquid Castile soap. It can be used as dish soap, hand soap, surface cleaner, appliance cleaner, a fruit and vegetable wash, and a floor wash. It should leave your kitchen sparkling clean and free of any soap scum residue, smell, or taste.
There are a few very important factors to consider when choosing a versatile dish soap:
- Your dishes should showcase the the food and not the dishwashing liquid or detergent used.
- The dish soap leaves your hands soft and smooth, while it is tough on grease and kitchen grime.
- The dish soap is a safe and effective fruit and vegetable wash.
When you plan, grow or shop for the best food, and then spend time preparing exquisite meals to enjoy with friends and family, you want to taste and smell only the food. Good kitchen soap is very important.
Irritating kitchen soap that smells and tastes like something unrelated to the food is counter intuitive. Not only is it poorly effective at keeping your dishes free from unwanted bacteria, it is a waste of time, energy, resources, and could possibly be harmful to your health and well being..
Do you really need hand soap and dish soap?
One Soap Cleans All
The right kitchen soap, will clean the whole kitchen well, including your greasy stovet.
In addition to Instant Liquid Soap, I like to have a bar of soap in my kitchen for hand washing. I prefer Tough Guy Soap, which has a fine grade pumice and poppy seeds. This mildly abrasive soap is great for cleaning more aromatic food smells off your hands, such as onions, garlic, and fish.
Well made Castile soap is gentle enough to effectively wash hands and sudsy enough to collect enough grease and debris from an eggplant Parmesan casserole dish or greasy pork chop pan.
Both hand soap and dish soap are intended to clean but are usually not the same. Most hand soaps are some sort of gentle on skin soap intended to clean your hands but not much else.
Most dish soaps are detergents, containing harsh, non food grade chemicals that cut through grease. As a comparison, a dish soap gel will clean 1-3 dishes before you need to add more to your sponge. The same amount of good sudsy Castile soap will clean 5-6 dishes before you need to add more to your sponge. The soap should be gentle enough to clean the dishes and your hands at the same time.
How do you feel when washing dishes?
Good Castile Soap
When washing dishes and cleaning up in your kitchen, consider making a switch from a toxic dishwashing detergent or liquid, to natural Castile soap as dish soap, if any of the following takes place:
- Foggy and headache-y when using your dish soap
- Rough scratchy and or itchy hands during and after washing dishes
- Taste or smell your dish soap when eating. Eating chemical dish washing detergents can cause illness.
You may save on headache remedies. Hand creams will actually make your hands smooth and beautiful instead of simply giving you relief.
Eating well and enjoying good health begins at home with the best food and dish soap. Good dish soap is part of a healthy lifestyle.
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