Protease
Goes after protein soils: egg, cheese, milk, meat, the casserole dish that sat overnight.
100% Plastic Free. A full 10-gram tablet with two cleaning enzymes and a hard-water formula. No pod film. No cloudy glasses.
20% off when you buy 3 packs. 60, 120 or 180 loads. One-time purchase.
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“No residue or white powder noted on them.”Robert · verified buyer · Review excerpt
“They don't have that blast of plastic smell when I open the dishwasher.”Scott R. · verified buyer · Review excerpt
“These are the best dishwasher tablets I've found. They clean great and leave no residue.”J Porter · customer review · Review excerpt
Scientists have found microplastics in human brains, hearts, and placentas.
A Stanford Medicine article describes how tiny plastic fragments have made their way into food, water, and air, and from there into the body. The unsettling part is how ordinary the routes are. Eating. Drinking. Breathing.
What is clear is that plastic pollution is no longer just a photo of a beach covered in bottles. It is a household question.
So where do you start with a problem that widespread?
With the dissolvable plastic that touches your families dishes.
Look at a standard dishwasher pod. The detergent is wrapped in a film that dissolves in the wash. Dissolving is not disappearing. That film is polyvinyl alcohol, PVA, and it is a plastic.
You need detergent that gets dinner off your plates. That should not require a dose wrapped in plastic.

Here is the part nobody puts on the front of the pouch.
Plenty of people have made this switch once already. They bought a minimalist “clean” tablet, ran a load, and held a glass up to the light. Cloudy. A gritty white film across the top rack. Half the load rewashed by hand, then a quiet trip back to the conventional pods, feeling a little defeated and a little guilty.
Hard water makes it worse. Formulas that skip the hard-water chemistry spot and film in exactly the places most of the country lives.
That failure was never about being plastic-free. It was about being under-built. A tablet that leaves out the plastic also has to leave in the parts that make detergent work.
Think of an enzyme as a tiny pair of scissors. Each one cuts one kind of mess into pieces small enough to rinse away.
Goes after protein soils: egg, cheese, milk, meat, the casserole dish that sat overnight.
Breaks down starches: rice, pasta, oatmeal, potato, the bowl that turned to cement.
Lifts the stains enzymes don't touch: tea rings, coffee, tomato sauce.
Citric acid, salt, MGDA, PESA, glycerol: softens the water, cuts grease, and stops the mineral deposits that leave glasses cloudy and bowls chalky.
Carries a real dose of all of the above. One tablet, one load, no doubling up.
Both work at lower temperatures, so the eco cycle is fair game. No chlorine bleach and no scalding water required.
Get 20% OffA Wash'd tablet is 10 grams. Blueland's is 6 grams. Same job, a full-size dose.
| Wash'd | Blueland | |
|---|---|---|
| Form | Tablet | Tablet |
| Detergent per tablet | 10grams | 6grams |
| Plastic-free tablet | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
Detergent per tablet compares one Wash'd Dishwasher Detergent Tablet (10 g) with one Blueland dishwasher tablet (6 g), as published on washdclean.com. 10 g is 66.7% more than 6 g. Blueland is a trademark of its owner and is not affiliated with Wash'd.
Pressed, not wrapped. There is no pod film because there is no pod. Nothing to unwrap, nothing plastic to dissolve into the wash water.
Fragrance-free by design. Clean dishes smell like nothing. A lemon smell on a plate is perfume that stayed behind.
Tablets come in a resealable kraft-paper pouch with a thin plant-based lining instead of a plastic tub.
Wash'd Dishwasher Detergent Tablets, fragrance-free. 60 tablets per pack, 60 dishwasher loads, one tablet per load.
180 loads
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120 loads
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60 loads
Pay normal price for one dishwasher tablet pack.
Buy 1 pays regular price plus normal shipping, Buy 2 gets 10% off plus normal shipping, and Buy 3 gets 20% off plus free shipping.
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Load the cheese pan without pre-rinsing. Put the oatmeal bowls in dirty on purpose. Your purchase is backed by a 60-day money-back guarantee.
Worst case, you rewash one load. Best case, the plastic-wrapped pods leave your kitchen for good.
Review excerpts from Wash'd Dishwasher Detergent Tablets customers. Lightly trimmed for length, not reworded.
Fair. That happened to a lot of people. The film usually isn't about being plastic-free; it is minerals in hard water that an under-built formula never dealt with. This tablet carries a five-ingredient hard-water package (citric acid, salt, MGDA, PESA, glycerol) built to stop spotting and film, plus a full 10-gram dose. And your purchase is backed by a 60-day money-back guarantee.
It isn't supposed to smell. Fragrance is perfume left behind on plates and glasses, and “fragrance” on a label can cover ingredients that are never listed. The proof is a clear glass, not a lemon scent. If you want your dishes to smell like citrus when they come out, this isn't the tablet for you.
It does dissolve. Dissolving is not disappearing. Pod film is PVA, a plastic, and it goes down the drain with the wash water. There is no film here because there is no pod: a pressed tablet goes straight in the tray.
Yes. Enzymes are the low-temperature specialists. Protease and amylase do their work without scalding water, which is exactly why the formula suits eco and low-temp cycles.
Hard water is what the five-ingredient package (citric acid, salt, MGDA, PESA, glycerol) is built for. If your water is unusually hard, treat the first load as the test and check a glass against the light. Your purchase is backed by a 60-day money-back guarantee.
Scrape, don't rinse. Protease and amylase need something to work on; a plate with dinner on it is the job they are built for.
Buy 1 pack pays regular price, Buy 2 packs get 10% off, and Buy 3 packs get 20% off plus free shipping. Every option is a one-time purchase.
Buy 3 includes free shipping. Buy 1 and Buy 2 use normal $4.99 shipping.
Thirteen ingredients, every one listed on the pouch: two cleaning enzymes, oxi power, plant-derived soaps, and the five-ingredient hard-water package. Nothing rides in under “fragrance.” Wash'd Dishwasher Detergent Tablets
If you can have a powerful, 100% plastic-free dishwasher tablet, why keep buying the plastic-wrapped one?
Put one in the tray. Run the load. Unload without holding anything up to the light.
Get 20% Off60, 120 or 180 loads · Fragrance-free · 60-day money-back guarantee
Review excerpts are from customer reviews published on washdclean.com. Five-star reviews shown. Review excerpts.
Source: Stanford Medicine, “Microplastics and our health: What the science says” (Jan 2025). The article did not study Wash'd products.
Tablets are 100% plastic-free. The kraft-paper pouch has a thin plant-based (PLA) lining.