Tried that fancy Method dish soap in the rose scent and my hands broke out in hives

Honestly I thought I was being fancy picking up a bottle of Method pink grapefruit at Target last week instead of my usual Dawn. First wash it smelled great. Second wash my knuckles started itching. By day three my hands looked like I'd been wrestling a cactus. Never had that with any other soap. Anyone else get a reaction from those natural essential oil soaps or is it just me?

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faithwalker29d ago

I gotta gently push back on calling Method "natural" though... they use a lot of plant based stuff but those essential oils are still pretty strong irritants for some people. I had the same problem with their lavender soap, made my hands all red and cracked within a week. It's the fragrance oils doing it, not the soap base itself.

rodriguez.diana29d ago

the grapefruit one wrecked my hands too but i think the issue is specifically the citrus oils not just essential oils in general. citral and limonene are common contact allergens and they put them in basically every citrus scented soap. i read somewhere that the concentration in those "natural" soaps can actually be higher than in conventional ones because theyre using real oils instead of synthetic fragrance.

hugo_bennett29d ago

Method dish soap is a known problem for people with nickel allergies. Nobody talks about this but the citrus essential oils they use can contain trace nickel from the distillation process. I'm not even allergic to nickel on my skin normally but I get the exact same rash from their grapefruit soap. Dawn doesn't have that issue because they use synthetic fragrance instead of real oils. If you want to test this, try their unscented version instead. No citrus oils, no nickel contamination, no hives.