Palmolive Baby Dish Detergent

Have you been looking for the best and safest ways to clean your baby bottles? Like many new and/or expecting mommies, you'll find every way in the world to avoid any and all germs. So I happen to come across several blogs and forums where mommies highly recommend using Palmolive's Baby Dish Detergent. The catch here is, it's not easy to find for whatever reason. A 20oz. bottle sells from $30-$60 on eBay and Amazon. You're probably wondering what's so great about this particular detergent. Several things: it doesn't contain "unnecessary ingredients," is baby safe, easily removes residual breast milk and formula, and can be used for virtually anything a baby would put in his/her mouth (i.e. binkies, toys, etc.). 

You're probably thinking, I spent a crazy amount of money to get my hands on this product. Guess what, I didn't. After doing some research I found 10oz. bottles at my local Wal-Mart for only $2.50. Yes, $2.50! I was so happy to find them that I purchased about four bottles, but luckily the store doesn't run out the product very often so it's literally easy for me to get to. That sucks for a lot of other mommies who wish to buy the product without going broke. I suggest visiting your local Wal-Mart and even Bed Bath & Beyond, they also sell the product for a reasonable price. Don't worry if you can't find this locally. There are plenty other alternatives like buying BabyGanics and other easy to find brands and/or make your own detergent. I plan to do the latter and reuse the Palmolive bottles. Soon I will post a recipe for homemade baby detergent, once I find and test one that is the best and basically chemical-free. 

10oz. Palmolive Baby Dish Detergent

Feeding bottles drying after washing in Palmolive Baby Dish Detergent

While I haven't used the dish detergent to remove breast milk (I'm actually three days pass my due date...ugh!), I have used it to clean bottles, pacifiers, etc. beforehand. I enjoy how gentle the product seems to be as well as its gentle scent. Many mommies complained how regular dish detergent leave a nasty taste in the nipples and bottles to the point where their babies reject the bottle. With this particular product, the scent does not linger. To clean the bottles, I simply place all the components in a large pot with warm soapy water, let it sit for 10 minutes, rinse, and place it in my new Munchkin Electric Sterilizer (a review coming soon!).