Lucent Globe’s Dishwashing Detergent Sheets can be used both in the dishwasher and to hand-wash dishes, but they have a few drawbacks
Lucent Globe dishwashing detergent sheets are mildly lemon-scented and produced rich suds when dissolved in water.
By Jodhaira Rodriguez
I’ve been cooking regularly for many years and still have not stopped hating the post-cooking cleanup. I’m not loyal to any one dish soap. Sometimes I pick up a bottle of whatever liquid dish soap is on sale at my local store; other times I order a refill of my favorite dish soap bar. One form of dish soap I had not tried before was dish soap sheets.
Like laundry detergent sheets, these thin sheets are formulated with soap built into them. As they dissolve in water, the soap is released. Lucent Globe’s Dishwashing Detergent Sheets are the first dish sheets that explicitly say they can be used for hand-washing dishes. I used them to wash dishes for several days to find out if I should be replacing my liquid and solid dish soap with this new type of soap.
How the Sheets Work
Lucent Globe’s detergent sheets are thin, textured sheets that dissolve in water to produce rich suds. The sheets can also be folded up and placed in the detergent dispenser of your dishwasher, though we did not test them this way.
The manufacturer says you can use its sheets to hand-wash dishes in a few ways: Place a sheet inside a dish wand with water, dissolve a sheet onto a sponge, or dissolve a sheet in a sink full of water, then use that soapy water to wash your dishes. We tried it both on a sponge and in a bowl of warm water.
The sheets are packaged in a cardboard box containing 80 sheets. If you’re washing one sink full of dishes a day, one box should be enough to wash dishes for 80 days before you’ll need to restock. At $21.99 per box, each sheet costs about 27 cents.
Left: Lucent Globe Dishwashing Detergent Sheets packaging; right: One sheet out of packaging.
Photos: Jodhaira Rodriguez/Consumer Reports
Lucent Globe says these sheets are plant-derived, nontoxic, and formulated without bleach, phosphates, or synthetic dyes. According to SkinSafe, the sheets are 91 percent free of the top 11 most common allergens as determined by the Mayo Clinic. They are not free of fragrance, coconut, balsam of Peru, oil, or sodium lauryl sulfate.
My Cleaning Experience
My dishwashing technique is pretty simple. I squirt a bit of liquid dish soap onto a sponge, hold it under running water, squeezing until suds appear, and then scrub my dishes with the soapy sponge. I wanted to use the dish soap sheets the same way, so I folded a sheet in half (they’re bigger than the Scotch-Brite Zero Scratch Scrub Sponges I keep stocked in my kitchen), placed it on my sponge, and held it under running water until it was fully dissolved. After about a minute of squeezing the sponge, the sheet was gone. In its place were rich citrus-scented suds. The scent was subtle and sweet and didn’t linger on any of the dishes after rinsing. It was more pleasant than the usual “clean” scent of many cleaning products.
I washed two pans, two glasses, several prep bowls, a few forks and spoons, and three knives with one dish soap sheet, and the suds remained strong the entire time. In fact, there were no loads of dishes I washed that required pulling a second sheet from the packaging to finish washing.
When I placed a sheet in a bowl of warm water, it dissolved in under 10 seconds with a bit of swishing. I was able to wash a sink full of dishes with soapy water without needing to grab a second sheet. I also didn’t have to scrub harder than usual to get stuck-on foods off my dishes.
The few times I washed just a dish or two at a time, it was easy to rip a piece of a sheet and dissolve it on my sponge. The smaller pieces dissolved faster than a full sheet but still produced enough suds to get my dishes clean. When I washed the dishes without wearing cleaning gloves, the sheets did not cause any dryness of my skin.
Overall, I was happy with the sheets’ performance. The only complaint I had was that the sheets cannot be handled with wet hands, so I was hesitant to keep them on the counter near my sink, where I usually keep my bottle of dish soap. If I walked into the kitchen to find a boxful of sheets dissolving due to improper storage, I’d be pretty upset. One solution is to store them in a dedicated glass jar or another sealable, waterproof container. As with any other cleaning products, if storing them in a container that does not seal tightly, keep them out of reach of children and pets.
The Bottom Line
Though these detergent sheets sudsed up well and left my dishes clean, you won’t find me switching over from my liquid dish soap anytime soon. I like keeping my dish soap next to my kitchen sink, where it is easily accessible. Because these sheets dissolve when they come into contact with water, I didn’t feel comfortable keeping them near the sink where they could become wet. Picking up a second sheet while I was doing dishes also required removing my cleaning gloves and ensuring my hands were completely dry before I reached into the box.
At 27 cents per sheet, it is pricier than using a few drops of Dawn Ultra dish soap, which costs about 19 cents per ounce.
Still, the cardboard packaging is environmentally friendly, and the formula’s few ingredients are great for households looking to cut down on harsh cleaning products. If a more sustainable cleaning routine is important to you, this is a solid replacement for dish soaps packaged in plastic bottles.
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