Is it ok to use hand soap for dishes?

Question

maybe this is a stupid one, but i noticed a friend of mine uses softsoap for her dishes--is there really a significant difference between using dish soap and hand soap for dishes?

Answer 1

No, I don't think so. Isn't Softsoap rather expensive to be washing your dishes with? I can only imagine that it wouldn't clean like dish soap. My former co-worker used body scrub to wash her dishes one time. Odd!

Answer 2

No, not in my experience.  Soap is soap.  The only problem is some hand soaps are scented, which, if you fail to rinse properly, can make food taste bad if you use that plate.

Answer 3

no thats not a good idea

Answer 4

dish soap is antibacterial, that's why we use it.

it should also be fairly non-toxic in case you don't rinse well enough.  

if your the hand soap pass the non-toxic test?

Then go with cheap