An all-purpose cleaner might be the hardest-working product in your house. Here's every decision that went into Harbor Mist, starting with the one I made first: no castile soap, because there's nothing convenient about cleaning a surface and then feeling like you need to go back over it.

The words on the front of a bottle don't tell you much about what's inside it. Plant-based. Clean. Green. They all sound good and none of them are regulated terms. Here's what I actually read on a dish soap label before it comes into my house, and the seven ingredients I skip every time.