I am yet another person who is disappointed in the claim of being "Free and Clear." I don't think Proctor & Gamble is aware that every other product I purchase on a regular basis that is Free and Clear is actually free and clear of dyes and FRAGRANCE. So either their product development team are unaware that free and clear holds the universal expectation that the product be free from dyes AND fragrance, or they have chosen to be deliberately deceitful, knowing that because it says FREE AND CLEAR in large letters, but then below says of dyes, but we have added this "light" pear scent that is still a fragrance and if you were wanting something that was actually fragrance free, we have legally covered ourselves. Is it so hard to just market it at as Dawn Powerwash Dye Free?
It's so frustrating! I needed a fragrance free dish soap to clean my air fryer basket with. I bought this product online and the only part of the product that said it was scented was the picture, nothing in the title or description, but I don't purchase things based off of a picture, I read the name and description and make my decision based on the information provided. After getting it, spraying it on to begin cleaning, and then realizing it was not fragrance free, I inspected the bottle and felt duped. I did my best to rinse all of it out of the basket I was trying to clean. It smelled so strongly of "light" pear that I ended up scrubbing the thing several times with baking soda. Using boiling water to soak it several times, and dry cooking the basket in the air fryer alone for 30 minutes at a time, several times, over the course of three days before the smell finally went away. I'm aware that grease is very difficult to clean from anything! My basket needed a much deeper clean that the baking soda scrub it usually receives. Hence my desire to purchase a good soap like dawn, that is good about cutting and cleaning grease, but also knowing it needed to be fragrance free because the grease holds onto smells and I didn't want my air fryer to smell like the blue dawn I typically use. Needless to say it felt dishonest to me to have the product be labeled as free and clear.
I have since found that Dawn has a liquid gel soap that claims to be Free and Clear AND unscented. I have yet to try it, as I'm wary of it's claims and keep looking at the pictures of the product trying to figure out if there is something I'm missing!