EcoGeek: Solid Dish Soap Explained! Plus Tips to Make Cleaning More Fun

Washing dishes like a secret princess. How would Cinderella deal with that baked-on grease? By Caitlin Hofmeister

When we were in first grade, my best friend told me she was going to be Cinderella for Halloween. Are you picturing it? Twinkly blue ballgown, glass slippers, a light dusting of fairy godmother sparkles…! 

She and her family came to our house to trick or treat, and when I flung open the door to greet her, she looked… plain. Her dress was brown and fell flat at her sides. She wore an apron and a kerchief in her hair. She carried a broom, and I don’t even remember her shoes, but I know they were not glass. 

I like to think I played it cool, like this was obviously the go-to Cinderella costume, but I was a little bummed. (I think I was a witch or something, but I didn’t have a broom!)

EcoGeek Makes Cleaning Easier...and More Fun! 

I still love Cinderella. But I spend way more time cleaning than going to balls, so I honestly think of my best friend and that little maid version of Cinderella all the time. And she might have been onto something! Cleaning is so much more fun if you pretend to be a down-on-her-luck princess. 

But it’s hard to do that if you're using a plastic bottle of dish soap and a flimsy sponge. Washing dishes with the bamboo EcoGeek Scrub Brush and Solid Dish Soap feels appropriately magical. When I wipe down the kitchen counters with a swedish dish cloth and then wring it out over the sink, I’m just waiting for a cartoon bird to come land on my shoulder. 

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a grown-up. I’m only pretending to be royalty because it’s practical. If my chores are more fun, yes, I’ll do them more, but not if it’s inconvenient. I hate grocery shopping, and I never know what plastics I can recycle. (Can you recycle the caps? I don’t know.)

So, using EcoGeek cleaning supplies is more convenient for me than what’s often sold as the convenient option. The solid dish soap goes further than liquid dish soap because you just need a tiny bit to suds up and clean a sink full of dishes. Sometimes you’ll see people online complain about solid dish soap disappearing over time because it gets wet, but if you use the soap saver to keep it dry, it’ll practically last forever. 

And the scrub brush and Swedish dish cloth last way longer than sponges. But as a bonus for the earth, won’t outlive me and everyone I will ever know, like a plastic scrub brush would. Plus, you can throw the Swedish dishcloths in the laundry or the dishwasher. And when they’re truly worn out, they’re compostable! 

And while the main reason I love EcoGeek cleaning products is because they make cleaning more fun, when a little bird eventually does perch on my shoulder, I’ll be able to look the little guy in the eye—because all the profits from EcoGeek support the Coral Reef Alliance! 

Which makes pretending to be the Little Mermaid when I go to the beach way better.