Red Dish Soap Bar (Fresh Spruce)

Why shouldn't holiday cheer extend to our dish routine? Our limited edition zero waste dish soap bar is like a winter stroll through a towering evergreen forest, spreading joy with even the toughest of dishes.

With simple, all-natural ingredients, this red dish soap bar is gentle on your hands, but still cuts through grease and grime better than any conventional liquid bottle, all with zero residue left over. While just a fraction of the size of conventional bottles, the ultra-concentrated solid form means one plastic-free dish soap bar is going to last so much longer than those pesky plastic bottles ever could. Plus, it just looks oh-so-festive on your kitchen counter 😍

And did we mention how absolutely ~delightful~ it smells? It's one of our best sellers every holiday season for a reason! 🌲

Please note that all of our soaps are made by hand and therefore may differ slightly from those pictured.

Solid Red Dish Soap Bar Quick Details:

• Limited Release! Only available during the holiday season.
• All-natural and biodegradable ingredients
• Safe for sensitive skin and septic systems
• Ultra-concentrated
• Package-free and plastic-free
• Vegan, cruelty-free, and palm oil free

🧼 Pair your dish soap bar with our plastic-free natural loofah sponges or a festive Swedish dishcloth for an extra suds boost!

Size

Our full-size solid dish soap bar weighs approximately 12 ounces.

Ingredients

Saponified Oils of Coconut, infused with Saponaria Extract, Aloe Vera, Madder Root, Beetroot, Alkanet, Essential Oil blend for scent

To Use

✨ Check out our full guide to zero waste dish soap bars over on the blog!

For hand-washing dishes: Grab your favorite dish brush, plastic-free sponge, or Swedish dishcloth, and get it nice and wet with some warm water. Then take the brush/sponge/cloth and rub it on the top of the dish soap bar in a circular motion until you've got a nice, sudsy lather worked up. Hand wash your dishes as normal, and repeat as often as necessary until all the dishes are done.

Pro-tip: The more scrubby the scrubber, the more sudsy the lather will be. (I'm a big fan of our natural loofah sponges for this!)

For cleaning the kitchen: Don't limit our solid dish soap bar to just dishes! Using the same method as for hand-washing dishes above, use this bar to clean your sink, countertop, stovetop, refrigerator - basically whatever you're cleaning in your kitchen can be cleaned with this dish soap bar! For extra shine, wipe clean with a damp Swedish dishcloth.

Care

To help your dish soap bar last as long as humanly possible, be sure to let it dry completely between uses.

Packaging + End of Life

Your solid dish soap bar will either be completely unpackaged or wrapped in reused kraft paper.

If there is soap residue left on the wrapping, the paper can be home composted, but if the wrapping is completely clean, it can be curbside recycled. The small tape pieces should be thrown away.

Origin

This dish soap bar was handmade right here in Tacoma, WA. Get to know the face behind this product: Soap & Clay.

Ethical Guarantees

Cruelty-Free
Give-back Program
Made in the USA
Palm Oil Free
Vegan
Washington Local
Woman-owned

🌎 You care about the planet. So do we.

Look. I get it. It’s HARD to be an EcoWarrior. Someone who cares about the planet and wants the most sustainable products available - from the ingredients to the packaging to the way that product gets to your hands.

It seems like everywhere we turn, someone, somewhere, is greenwashing us.

But our superpower at A Drop in the Ocean is sorting through the BS, calling it out, and making sure our products are the absolute most sustainable and truly zero waste products we can find.

So on top of all the things we mentioned above about what makes our seasonal solid red dish soap bar so sustainable, here’s a few other things you should know:

• We’re actually practicing what we preach behind the scenes. In 2022, we saved all of our trash for four months, and wrote a whole blog post on it. The tl;dr version is this: in four months, we only produced two pounds of trash. Everything from the packaging our products come in down to the Sharpie we use to write “Fragile” on your box is zero waste to its core.
• We’re an online-only zero waste store - which is highly intentional. It may seem counter-intuitive, but online shopping is actually more sustainable than in-person. I’m a data nerd at heart and I love diving into the research, and there are countless studies that have shown that online shopping is the most sustainable way to get your everyday essentials. Don’t believe me? Check out our whole blog post on the sustainability of online shopping.
• We ship ugly boxes. Your order from A Drop in the Ocean is not going to arrive in a pretty, branded box. It’s gonna show up in a reused tea box, or a donated Amazon box, or maybe even an inside-out Girl Scout Cookies box. All of our shipping materials are always 100% plastic-free and reused as much as possible, with curbside-recyclable paper tape and a post-consumer recycled paper shipping label. It won’t be pretty, but it will be zero waste.

Got more questions about our zero waste products or our practices behind the scenes? Just send us an email! I’m always happy to chat all things eco.