DuJardin Green French Utility Soap Review 2020 | Zero Waste Kitchen Soap
The Top Line:
We love DuJardin’s zero waste, green French style block soap.
We test-washed one pan, and before we knew it, we cleaned the sink’s worth of dishware that would normally go in the dishwasher. We are not kidding. Dabs of the soap on the Kuchenprofi brush is enough to clean and remove grease from our dishes. No residue, limited scent, and crazy cheap compared to liquid soap. Did we mention zero-waste? This is one of our favorite BUYS.
The Breakdown:
Cost & Products: $9.95 for the SM green cube
How ‘Clean’ Is This? As clean as it gets. We understand all of the ingredients and it’s 72% olive oil.
Packaging: The item itself was just wrapped in a piece of paper, so no real “packaging” to speak of. Fabulous.
Purchasing & Shipping: Bought on Etsy - shipping over $35 is free, otherwise shipping is $4.50.
Good to Know: Super cute vintage saucer included with purchases of kitchen soap. There is ZERO packaging, but there were a few peanuts floating around in a thoughtfully packed box to protect the saucer. We get it, just more an FYI.
Also, this soap works amazingly. More on that below.
Coupons: It’s Etsy.
What’s Your Impact? No more plastic bottle dish soap. None. Zero. Zip. And totally natural ingredients. No more chemicals.
The Efficacy
After Dawn and Palmolive, we used Seventh Generation and Method for their greenness. Those little bottles of Dawn are super addictive and they work pretty well. But….
We cannot stress how well DuJardin soap got rid of grease
One second the grease was there, and then you rinse, and the dish rinses away clean.
We used this soap with our Kuchenprofi brush.
Typically conservative on our soap use, we also cannot stress how little soap is needed on the brush to get a clean dish.
Did we mention that this soap eats away grease, but doesn’t leave that annoying squeak? DuJardin’s French Soap is truly one of the most amazing products we’ve tried.
The Cost
From online recipes, 4oz of solid soap makes about a gallon (128oz) of liquid soap. So, we are going to calculate how much 100oz of liquid soap costs for comparison. For visualization, 100oz is about 4 of those “normal” sized liquid bottles.
DuJardin Green SM Block 7oz $14.50* | 100oz cost: $6.47
No Tox Life Dish Block 7.5oz $14* | 100oz cost: $5.83
Beehive Alchemy Block 12oz $26* | 100oz cost: $6.77
Seventh Generation Soap 25oz $3.39 | 100oz cost: $13.56
Method Liquid Soap 18oz $3.99 | 100oz cost: $22.22
Dawn Liquid Soap 19oz $2.69 | 100oz cost: $13.87
Palmolive Liquid Soap 28oz $2.97 | 100oz cost: $10.61
*Added $4.50, $4, and $10 in shipping, respectively. DuJardin and No Tox shipping is free >$35 and >$39 orders.
Money Thoughts: Well, dish washing bars are up to 75% cheaper than dish washing liquid. Switching from liquid to solid, from a cost perspective, is 100% the way to go, even if you pay the full cost of shipping.
The Good:
✔ We loved the soap’s grease removing capabilities. Love-love-love.
✔ The block of soap is pretty and decorative
✔ Zero plastic
✔ Eco-friendly ingredients
✔ It smells of European, rustic-like soap - otherwise it’s scent-free
✔ Small business support
✔ Can’t get over the grease fighting ability with no residue whatsoever
The Bad:
✗ It takes approximately one second to get used to a solid block, but after the first use and seeing the results, we were thoroughly convinced that this soap was an excellent switch. So, technically there is no bad. ☺
Our Recommendation:
We are trying to temper our excitement, but really, this is one of the best zero-waste purchases and discoveries we have made, even though this style of soap dates back hundreds of years. DuJardin’s Green French Utility Soap has a natural soap scent, works beautifully (we can’t get over this) and is really, really inexpensive when pinned against mainstream liquid soaps. BUY.
We're on a mission to reduce our personal carbon footprint with small, hopefully easy, changes in our home to fight against climate change. This means we're looking for products that may be all natural, ideally zero waste, reusable or compostable -- while still being affordable!
