Vallecito Farm Fresh — Solid Dish Soap Kit

Everything you need to get the plastic bottle off the sink: a 6 oz puck of cold-process solid dish soap, a ceramic dish and a wooden scrub brush.

Liquid dish soap is mostly water, synthetic surfactants and fragrance in a plastic bottle. This is real soap: saponified coconut, olive and castor oils, with a little citric acid to cut grease and stand up to hard Valley water, and essential oil for scent. No dyes, no synthetic fragrance, no plastic. It is made in small batches in Vallecito, up in the Sierra foothills. Wet the brush, swirl it on the soap, wash. One puck outlasts several bottles of liquid.

Who this is for

• You are cutting plastic from the kitchen and the dish soap bottle is the obvious one
• Hands that crack and sting from conventional dish soap
• You are on a septic system or greywater and want soap that breaks down cleanly
• You want a small, useful housewarming gift

How to use

Wet the brush, swirl on the soap, scrub, rinse. Let the soap dry between uses; the ceramic dish is designed for that. When it runs out, drop in a refill puck and keep the dish and brush.

Details: two scents, Lemon (bright and clean) or Orange & Lemon (a little sweeter and warmer). Ingredients: distilled water, saponified oils of coconut, olive and castor, stearic acid, citric acid, essential oils. Approx. 6 oz puck with ceramic dish and natural-bristle wooden brush.

Made in small batches by Vallecito Farm Fresh in Vallecito, California, in the Sierra foothills east of Modesto.