I’ve been using Earth Friendly Products Auto Dishwasher Wave Jet Rinse Aid for the past two month or so — since my last bottle of cruel rinse aid ran out — and I’ve been very happy with it. I originally went to the health food store hoping against hope that I’d find a cruelty-free rinse aid and not have to order one on line since I’d just run out and was desperate, and was pleasantly surprised to find a bottle of rinse aid with the leaping bunny logo right on the shelf (!). (It just goes to show you how useful the CCIC leaping bunny logo is — seriously, if you’re a consumer, just go to the store and look at the backs of bottles. If you’re a producer, consider licensing the logo).
My experiences with Earth Friendly Products Wave Jet Rinse Aid have been good so far, other than, as you can see if you squint at the picture in this post, the words “rinse aid” aren’t actually on the product, which I find really annoying. I am confused as to why this is the case — I mean, are the words “rinse aid” copyrighted by some other company? Luckily you’ll find it in the dishwasher section, and is in a bottle about the right size and shape for a rinse aid bottle, and if you read the fine print on the bottle it says something about how it makes dishes sparkle, so it’s pretty clear it’s a rinse aid in all but name. But still.
The good news is that, in practice, Earth Friendly Products rinse aid does just as good a job as the neon-blue colored chemical-filled rinse aid all of us have used — though I have to say the fact that it’s clear-colored and not violently blue makes me feel better about putting it on things I eat off of. Maybe I’m turning into an environmentalist 
I live in an area with very hard water, so rinse aid is a necessity. No rinse aid = yucky dishes.
If you’re interested in what the company that makes this rinse aid is like, it turns out that Earth Friendly Products seems like a very nice company — it is very “green” — it is even green star certified. It has also won numerous other awards — a PETA proggy award, an American Culinary Institute gold performance award, and a Natural Home Magazine award. The Earth Friendly Products website states that the goal of the company is to create formulas with replenishable ingredients, without petrochemicals, nonionic ingredients, or unsustainable ingredients. Earth Friendly Products even has a manifesto about that you can read. So while this is a great product for those of us who want to be cruelty-free, it’s also a great product for people who want to be vegan, and eco-friendly.
Earth Friendly Products Auto Dishwasher Wave Jet Rinse Aid (8oz) is available for $4.99 from the Earth Friendly Products online store, or your local health food store.
(Earth Friendly Products are not organic, but they do appear to be “earth friendly,” contain no petrochemicals, and are vegan — or at least this bottle of rinse aid says it contains no animal ingredients on the back.)
Ingredients: Water, natural earth salts, coconut oil derived surfactants (does not contain SLS).
