Dawn Direct Foam Doesn’t Deliver

Recently, I was sent a bottle of Dawn Direct Foam to review. The claim is that you pump just one pump of foam onto the included (or any) sponge and it washes your whole sink of dishes. Here’s what I thought…

I received the fresh rapids scent and it was very light - hardly noticeable even - which I appreciated. I hate strong chemical smells and I really hate fake smells trying to cover up chemical smells. This was actually pleasant!

A sponge just sounds gross. It did wash a lot of dishes with one pump on the sponge, so that claim was totally true. A sponge isn’t “scrubby” enough to get off the tough stuff, but for things that were just greasy it worked great.

I need soap in my water to feel like the dishes are really getting clean. And, honestly, if it doesn’t fit in my dishwasher it usually sits long enough that it needs a really good soak in soapy water to come clean. The Dawn Direct Foam doesn’t work worth a crap in the dishwater. However, it doesn’t claim to so I suppose that’s alright. You’d need to have two bottles of soap though, which sounds like too much work for me.

Personally, I won’t be buying it. For those of you who wash your dishes promptly it seems like it works very well. Just remember to boil your sponge or toss it in the dishwasher daily because those are dirty little suckers.

Written by Nicole, who blogs about whatever strikes her fancy at Much More Than a Mom. She’s a mom first, and then a whole bunch of other crazy stuff, including a teacher, fitness & yoga instructor and a pregnant mom of 1.5 kids. She is also the founder & senior editor at The Opinionated Parent, where one of her favorite things to do is give great stuff away.