The 12 Best Natural & Organic Hand Washes Of 2023

This softening hand wash keeps your skin feeling fresh and invigorated post rinse and throughout the day. Thanks to its blend of biome-friendly ingredients, antioxidants, biodegradable surfactants, and hydrating natural extracts (like organic aloe and oat oil), it nurtures your skin while you're washing. The result? Your hands appear more hydrated, supple, and bright. Plus, it’s infused with a bright scent that’s made with essential oils, natural extracts, and responsible synthetics.

What our reviewer says:

“I’ve been using this hand wash for over a year now (prior to launch), and it is something special. The sophisticated, yet energizing scent, is a pleasure to the senses. The soft, easy lather feels plush. The hydrating ingredients keep my skin soft—not cracked and dry like so many other hand washes. It really makes a huge difference in the overall health of my skin. Whenever guests use it, they practically beg me for an early sample to take home. Finally, I can share it with the world!” — mindbodygreen beauty director Alexandra Engler

When Kora Organics came out with body care, founder and supermodel Miranda Kerr told me that they were inspired by their best selling facial products. In the case of the hand and body wash, the blueprint was the cult-favorite Milky Mushroom Cleansing Oil. Now, the body option is more of a milky-gel texture that lathers into a plush foam, but the ingredients are still the same caliber: Antioxidant rich noni extract, organic aloe, and barrier supporting murumuru butter and cauliflower mushroom.

A classic option for folks who want the ease of a drug store hand soap — just with naturally-derived ingredients and sans sulfates, parabens, and phaltes. This budget-friendly formula uses glycerin, olive extracts, and a gentle surfactant to wash the skin without irritation. It’s topped with garden-inspired scents from essential oils.  

A luxe, natural hand wash from the master of luxe, natural products herself, Susanne Kaufmann. This premium option is designed to infuse the skin with unique and natural barrier-supporting ingredients, such as horsetail (enhances collagen production), burdock root (supports skin circulation), silk proteins (strengthens the skin barrier), and wheat germ oil (to soothe and provide antioxidant protection).

For soft, hydrated hands it’s important to find blends that use surfactants buffered with fatty acids, like this option. While this is a lathering gel texture, it uses murumuru butter for a distinct creaminess. The murumuru butter not only makes the sensorial experience plusher, but it infuses the formula with soothing antioxidants. 

This not only cleanses the hands with a blend of surfactants, but it buffs away excess dead skin cells and rough texture with the pumice powder. The fine, physical exfoliator smoothes the skin—while infusing skin-supporting botanicals like May Chang and sweet orange. However, we definitely recommend proceeding with caution with exfoliants if your skin is already dry or sensitive, and the hands are no exception.

For those with eczema, you know how important hand care is—irritating or drying products can lead to flare-ups on the delicate area. This gentle unscented option is infused with aloe vera, colloidal oat, and organic honey—all-natural options often recommended for those with the inflammatory skin condition. 

This multi-tasking soap can be used on the body, face, and hair—although we’re partial for its use on the hands. The blend is made with fair trade and organic sugar, organic shikakai powder, organic and fair trade palm oil, and an organic coconut-olive-and-hemp oil complex, this contains high-quality ingredients at a very reasonable price. The ingredients work together to refresh the skin without stripping it in the process. 

This brand is known for using hero ingredients that would otherwise be waste products, such as coffee extracts and tea byproducts. In this wash, they use kiwi water, which is the byproduct of the juicing industry. Not only is this a sustainable option, but it’s incredibly soothing and hydrating for the skin. The formula is rounded out with moisturizing glycerin and botanical oils. 

This chic hand wash will look stylish on any bathroom or kitchen counter—but aesthetics aside, the gel hand wash is as high-quality as they come. The formula is made with coconut oil, sweet almond oil, and cold-pressed sweet orange oil to supply the skin fatty acids and antioxidants. Plus it’s infused with skin-softening flavonoids and plumping hyaluronic acid. The scent is bright, yet woodsy—and sharpened with sage and citrus.

A perennially popular scent, lavender is equal parts fresh, floral, and calm. This version feels like you’re running through the French countryside come spring. That’s not all that’s delightful about this—the liquid soap is a deeply hydrating blend of coconut oil and provence olive oil (nicknamed “liquid gold”).

For those who like fine fragrance for the home and body, I highly recommend checking out LafCo New York. The brand offers a roving collection of unique essential oil-based scents that are sure to create ambience in any setting. Their hand soaps are made with gentle surfactants and botanical oils to hydrate the skin, white you enjoy the incredible fragrance profiles.