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Dawn Dish Soap

Popular dish soap, known for its grease fighting

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Dawn Dish Soap
Dawn Dish Soap's Sustainability Rating:

Poor

Dawn Dish Soap has a Poor rating due to an overall lack of sustainability efforts and disclosures. Its parent company is Procter & Gamble (P&G), one of the largest companies in the S&P500, and we expect more reporting and transparency from a brand of its size.

Dawn Dish Soap doesn't make any commitments related to its ingredients. Choice of ingredients is a strong determinant of environmental impact and Commons found evidence of many petrochemical-based ingredients in its products. The brand uses primarily plastic packaging of a virgin or undisclosed source and doesn't explicitly encourage reusing its containers, which contributes greatly to waste production and excess energy use.

Dawn Dish Soap is owned by Procter & Gamble.


  • Ingredients

    Dawn Dish Soap doesn't make any commitments related to its ingredients. Choice of ingredients is a strong determinant of environmental impact. It uses ingredients that pose a significant threat to the climate, including many petrochemical-based ingredients.


  • Containers & Packaging

    Dawn Dish Soap's parent company, Procter & Gamble (P&G), doesn't provide reporting on packaging at a brand level. Across all of its brands, it has made efforts to minimize the overall amount of material used, and reduce its use of virgin plastic in its product containers. It doesn't report on its shipping materials.


  • Energy & Water Use

    Dawn Dish Soap's parent company, Procter & Gamble (P&G), shares information on its overall energy strategy. It uses a majority of renewable energy to power its production sites and corporate offices. It has a target for expanding its use of renewable energy by 2030, and it has shared on-track progress against this in the past year. Procter & Gamble (P&G) implements water efficiency measures focused on water restoration and achieving water positivity.


  • Refill & Reuse

    Dawn Dish Soap doesn't encourage reusing its product containers. It offers bulk sizes or low-waste refill options for some products.


  • Slow Cleaning

    It's unclear if this brand releases new items seasonally, which can create excess waste.


  • Marketing

    Commons is still evaluating this brand's marketing emails.


  • Transparency & Reporting

    Dawn Dish Soap has a sustainability page with high-level details on its climate strategy, but this page is hard to find on its website and it doesn't link to its parent company's more thorough page. Its parent company, Procter & Gamble (P&G) publishes a detailed annual report with a clear, impact-driven strategy and progress reporting. Dawn Dish Soap shares a complete list of ingredients used in its products, on a per product basis, though some of the links to view them are broken.


  • Emissions Tracking

    Dawn Dish Soap's parent company, Procter & Gamble (P&G), measures and publicly reports its company-level emissions in partnership with a third party. It includes a breakdown by scope and identifies its top driver of emissions. In 2023, its estimated emissions footprint was 192,739,586 tons CO2e.


  • Targets & Offsets

    Dawn Dish Soap's parent company, Procter & Gamble (P&G) has SBTI-approved emissions reduction targets for the medium-term. It has reported on its progress within the past year and is on track for some of its targets. Commons couldn't find evidence that the brand offsets any emissions.


  • Supply Chain & Labor

    Dawn Dish Soap's parent company, Procter & Gamble (P&G) doesn't publish comprehensive information about its supply chain partners. It publicly shares a supplier code of conduct, which prohibits forced labor. This code of conduct doesn't address living wages, unauthorized subcontracting, regular audits, or a right to collective bargaining where not protected by law.

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Sustainability information was last updated in March 2025.

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