Soap is soap.. right?

So tonight while I was preparing dinner I started washing dishes, I like to clean as I go, ESPECIALLY since my toddler was taking a late nap. Anyway, on my windowsill I keep some knick knacks, hand soap, hand sanitizer, lotion, and dishwashing soap. I promise I am going somewhere with this. Oddly something caught my eye, there wasn't an ingredients list on my dishwashing soap. Dishwashing soap typically touches your skin I feel like it would be important to know what I am coming in contact with. After all, my hand soap, and lotion, have an ingredients list on them, as small as it is, the list is still there. Makes me wonder, what is it that this company is trying to keep discreet? It was near impossible for me to even google a list of ingredients for my specific soap!

After dinner I tried to compare a generic list of hand soap and dish soap, but the youngest one was awake so that task was easier said then done. I aborted that mission and decided to just google, "can you use hand soap to wash dishes?'. Goodness, what would I do without Google!? I found a few others asking the same question, which made me feel a little less weird that I was even contemplating this. To sum up what I found, people were saying that its fine. It's not harmful, after all one person uses hand soap multiple times a day. Our children use hand soap and most often they put their hands in their mouths. Most people said just to be sure to rinse well. I even read a little bit about historically soap was universal in a household. One soap for hands, dishes, beauty and cleaning. Made me laugh a little because I remember one time, not sure how old I was, but I remember my Grammy pulling a huge bottle of soap from under the kitchen sink and using it to wash my hair! Maybe I come from a long line of cheapskates.
I know what most people would say here, "dish detergent is better because it cuts through grease better than hand soap does.'. TRUE. BUT, I soak my dishes in borax before I suds them up anyhow. Borax is an amazing multi-use cleaner. Since I had a few dishes that had been soaking pre-dinner I decided to give this hand soap idea a spin.
I washed the dishes just like normal, except this time using the hand soap. Rinsed. Dried. Then I filled up a glass with water and drank it. Waited a few minutes, and now I am writing this post to let everybody know my water didn't taste strange, I'm still alive and well. I think I may have just made a change. Now, that's not to say if I find a really awesome clearance deal on dish soap or have a great coupon for it that I wouldn't use it. I am about saving a buck, and maybe I'll be on the lookout for a dish soap that has its ingredients listed on the back. That part is still strange to me.
ETA: If you are wondering how this is saving me money. Since I recently closed my business I had a cupboard of antibacterial hand soap that I had stockpiled from couponing a few months back. Using what I have on hand already is saving us money.