Method Cleaning Products

Method sells household cleaners in bottles designed by Karim Rashid. The visual identity is so distinct that you can identify the brand from across a store aisle by the teardrop-shaped bottle and the translucent colored plastic. All-purpose cleaner comes in pink grapefruit, french lavender. Cucumber, and the scents are subtle enough to notice when you spray but not so strong that the room smells like artificial fruit for the rest of the day. Cleaning power is comparable to Windex or 409 for general surfaces, and the plant-based formula means the ingredient list reads like a recipe rather than a chemistry experiment. The design achievement is making a cleaning product that you don't want to hide under the sink. Bottles sit on my kitchen counter next to the soap dispenser and the visual consistency between them creates a sense of order that I did not know I wanted from cleaning supplies. Method has extended this approach to dish soap, hand soap. Laundry detergent, and the design language is consistent enough across the line that buying a new product feels like adding to a collection rather than making a separate purchase. The company was acquired by SC Johnson in 2017, which raised questions about whether a corporate parent that also makes conventional cleaning products would compromise the brand's environmental commitments. Formulations and packaging have remained consistent in the years since.