Ivory Dish Soap Review: Classic Scent Not My Fave But Cleans Very Well

by Taylor @Stain-Removal-101.com

I'm in the process of using a bottle of Ivory dish soap to clean all my dishes, pots and pans as part of my ongoing quest to review lots of different dishwashing liquids for this website.

This time I chose Ivory's dishwashing liquid from the supermarket shelf, and I've used it now for about a week.

Initial Impressions Of The Scent

When we got out this brand from under the sink and tried it for the first time my husband happened to be standing close by, and we both commented on its smell, unfavorably. I bought the "classic scent," which is, as far as I can tell, the only scent available.

Frankly, it smells just like Ivory bar soap, which I associate with taking a bath. That means I wasn't too keen on it when I first smelled it in association with washing my dishes. However, my husband commented the other day that over the course of the week he's reassessed the scent and now associates it with "being clean" and likes it, because it somehow reassures him the dishes are getting cleaned.

I don't know that I love the scent now, but I do know that as I've used it over the past week I don't really notice the scent now, and it doesn't bother me. I think I am just so used to dish soaps smelling like green apples, or a citrus fruit, that to actually smell like "soap" threw me off.

How Ivory Dish Soap Cleans My Dishes

More important than the smell, of course, is how it is working to clean my dishes. In that regard this soap is passing the test with flying colors.


Especially in compared with my last test subject this soap seems to last and last and last. I love that. I can squirt just a little onto the sponge and it seems I can keep washing and washing various pots and pans without having to add more, even if I squeeze out the sponge periodically to rinse off the yuck.

Overall, I like this soap, although I didn't find it to be a big cost savings compared to other common name brands. Because of its price I would probably still choose Dawn dish soap before it, just because I tend to like those scents better, but I think it works quite well and if it was on sale, or with a coupon, I would choose it over many other brands.

Has anyone else used this dishwashing liquid? If so, I would love to hear your opinions about it too, and see if you had a similar or different opinion than me. You can share your dishwashing soap review here for this or any other brand, or you can read lots of other reviews that have already been submitted.

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