A few weeks ago, I saw someone mentioning Dapple Baby on Twitter. We’re big fans of safe and green products here at Your Mama Reviews, so I poked them for a sample to try out and they sent me a travel size of Dapple Baby’s natural dish detergent and toy cleaning wipes.
The theory behind Dapple Baby is that conventional dish soaps and cleaners are full of fragrance and nasty chemicals that leave residue on the items babies stick in their mouths. (Bottles, pacifiers, cups, toys, etc.) I feel like I have to rinse my baby dishes for like fifteen minutes to get the detergent smell off them. So the Dapple Baby mission makes sense to me.
But does it work?
Totally, from what I can tell! I use Seventh Generation dish liquid usually. To me, it seems pretty similar. But Dapple is formulated with enzymes that help break down milk. Pretty cool.
The packaging is adorable. That doesn’t make it work any better, but it pleases my design sensibilities.
I also like that the dish liquid comes in a travel size. When you’re hitting the road with kids, you’re often stuck using the cleaners that your hotels/hosts use. No one wants to lug around a giant bottle of dish wash. Yay travel sizes!
My favorite of the two items was definitely the toy wipes. I’ve kept them in my diaper bag for times when my son’s toys hit the floor at the mall or a restaurant. They really wipe things clean, but they’re not antibacterial. Believe it or not, this is a good thing! Unless you’ve managed to get poop or something otherwise noxious on your kid’s toys, they really don’t need strong antibacterial agents on their toys. A few germs do the body good.
Both Dapple Baby products I tried had a nice, pleasing lavender smell. They use essential oils in their products to scent them. Essential oils are far better for you than fragrances, which are basically just chemicals. (I study Aromatherapy, can you tell?)
If you have little ones at home, Dapple Baby products are worth picking up. I’m looking forward to trying the dishwasher powder when I can find it in stock.
You can find Dapple Baby products by running a handy product search on their website or online at our affiliate, Amazon.com
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They use baking soda for an ingredient in the dish liquid.
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BLEACH IN THE DISHWASHING LIQUID
The Dapple Toy Cleaner Spray contains French Lavender Essential Oil – which is my favorite!
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What else i learned is that all Dapple products use natural-based ingredients that are environmentally-safe, biodegradable, and free of parabens, SLES, and phthalates, as well as synthetic dyes or fragrances.
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a few of the ingrediants are Purified water, baking soda, cleaners derived from fruits
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the dish liquid has baking soda
The wipeys appear to have a “preservative derived from natural amino acid”…. ooh ahh!
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Cool…I’ve saw their toy cleaner spray at Babies R Us the other day and have been wanting to try it out! I learned that baking soda is one of the ingredients in this product.
French lavender essential oil is an ingredient in the toy cleaner spray.
natural water softeners in the dish washer detergent
Purified water, baking soda, cleaners derived from fruits, tree oils and glucose, French lavender essential oil, essential oil dispersant.
They use tree oils in their dish liquid
What’s in Dapple Toy Cleaner Wipes? A few ingredients are:
Purified water, baking soda, cleaners derived from fruits, tree oils and glucose, French lavender essential oil
I learned that: Dapple takes the time, hassle, and worry out of cleaning and caring for your baby, with products that are gentle enough for baby, yet powerful enough for your everyday needs.
The Dapple Toy Cleaner Spray has pure lavender essential oil.
There is baking soda in their Toy Wipes
I love this statement:
Created with input from leading pediatricians and a team of chemists with expertise in green cleaning technology, each one of our products is specially formulated to solve a different baby-related cleaning problem, with natural-based ingredients that are baby-friendly – and designed to address the specific issue at hand.
One of their ingredients in their Dapple Dish Liquid is French lavender essential oil.
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Something I learned is that all Dapple products use natural-based ingredients that are environmentally-safe, biodegradable, and free of parabens, SLES, and phthalates, as well as synthetic dyes or fragrances.
Purified Water and Baking Soda just to name a couple.
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There is french lavender essential oil in the toy wipes
I learned that the toy wipes are biodegradable
French lavender essential oil, essential oil dispersant is in the Dish Liquid.
the dishwasher Power has Vegetable-based surfactants, soil and stain removers specifically chosen to remove fats.
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They having baking soda in the toy cleaner! Way cool stuff! Thanks!
Also found out that they are Certified to contain no detectable levels of dioxane…which is way cool if you really know what dioxane …something not good for the environment and often irritates the eyes and/or skin
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In the Baby Safe Dish Liquid, they use cleaners derived from fruits.
Dapple donates both proceeds and products to a wide range of family-and eco-friendly causes.
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One is French lavender essential oil
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