Dishwasher Pods (PVA-Free)

Get your dishes clean, naturally. These non-toxic and natural dishwasher detergent tablets are 100% PVA-free and made by hand with just four easy-to-pronounce, septic-safe ingredients. Totally plastic-free and package-free, you'll get all the sparkle with none of the waste. The light essential oil blend of grapefruit and lemon will bring a citrusy cheer to your kitchen, but will leave zero scent on your freshly-washed dishes.

Pro-Tip: Want extra sparkle? Add some distilled white vinegar to your dishwasher's rinse aid dispenser!

PVA-Free Dishwasher Detergent Tablets Quick Details:

• 100% plastic-free and PVA-free tablets
• All-natural and biodegradable ingredients
• Non-toxic and free of harmful chemicals
• Safe for septic systems
• Vegan, cruelty-free, and palm oil free
  

🧼 For all of your hand wash-only dishes, check out our best-selling zero waste solid dish soap bar and bamboo dish brushes.

Ingredients

Washing Soda, Dendritic Salt, Grapefruit + Lemon Essential Oil Blend, Distilled Water

To Use

Add one PVA-free dishwasher detergent pod to the detergent dispenser of your dishwasher. Use all settings as normal.

Please note that some of our EcoWarriors with harder water have experienced a white film residue after using these pods. For some, a little white vinegar in the rinse aid clears it right up and makes their dishes sparkle. For others, it's a bit more persistent. While we love these pods and hope you love them as much as we do, if you have hard water, please keep this in mind when making your purchasing decision. In response to this concern, we have a second eco-friendly dishwasher pod option that seems to work better with hard water that may be a better solution for your home.

Packaging + End of Life

These PVA-free dishwasher detergent tablets will be wrapped in minimal reused kraft paper with paper tape.

If there is no residue left on the paper, it can be curbside recycled; if there is residue left on the paper it can be home composted. The small tape pieces should be thrown away.

Origin

Handmade in La Conner, Washington.

Ethical Guarantees

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 PVA-free dishwasher tablets 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.