According to poison.org, over 18,000 children in the US alone were poisoned by dish detergents in 2016. It's hard to believe that the very products we use to clean our dishes could be a major source of poison exposures, especially in little ones. The chemicals in many of these products can be harsh and toxic when ingested, which begs the question: why would we use harsh products to wash the dishes we eat from on a daily basis?
Foaming agents and harsh anionic surfactants such as SLS/SLES are commonly used in both conventional and plant-based dish soaps to produce thicker foam. You'd be surprised that there is no correlation whatsoever between excessive foaming and cleaning, and that many of these unnecessary chemicals feed into existing perceptions that thick foaming means better cleaning.
