over sudsing/excess foam

[phillymatt53]

I will say that it has a very nice scent and it cleans nice.

Thanks, I just was wondering about the "Dawn" additive on the label, and hope it doesn't clog up with suds.

 

[rinso]

answer to questions

Thanks for the quick responses!! I never, never, never ever pre-rinse and the water is medium hardness, leaning toward soft. I don't use rinse aid. The over sudsing happens all the time with Cascade and often with Finish. Currently I have been using WalMart's Great Value powder, but I hate going to WalMart. When I can find it, I use Cascade powder. I haven't seen Finish powder for several years. Don't even know if it's still made. I don't like not being able to control the amount of product I use. (and I feel the same way about laundry pods, but that's another story). I always load both dispensers and mostly use the 1 hour cycle on both machines that uses more water and less time. Unless an item has something burnt or baked on, this cycle never fails me.

I have always had oversudsing issues with both Finish and the old, now discontinued, Electrsol.

 

[johnb300m]

For the record, P&G doesn't actually "put" Dawn in their detergent pacs.
It's just an internal co-marketing thing because P&G also owns Dawn. And they want everyone to KNOW that Dawn is "tough on grease."
But it's not the same ingredients.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

For the record, P&G doesn't actually "put" Dawn in their detergent pacs.
It's just an internal co-marketing thing because P&G also owns Dawn. And they want everyone to KNOW that Dawn is "tough on grease."
But it's not the same ingredients.

Funny, because I've noticed that Cascade claimed to have Dawn in it. It doesn't matter if it's powder, gel, or packs.

 

[DADoES]

Seems reasonably clear that there's no way to incorporate the literal liquid Dawn product into dishwasher powders, gels, or pacs/pods ... either in native liquid form or somehow freeze-dried to be reconstituted upon contacting water ... due to the extreme sudsing that would occur in a dishwasher.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

Seems reasonably clear that there's no way to incorporate the literal liquid Dawn product into dishwasher powders, gels, or pacs/pods ... either in native liquid form or somehow freeze-dried to be reconstituted upon contacting water ... due to the extreme sudsing that would occur in a dishwasher.

Well gee, it smells and sounds like marketing to me.

 

[phillymatt53]

Well gee, it smells and sounds like marketing to me.

I just want something that performs well and does the job.
I don't Buy Into marketing hype.

 

[jrap330]

I have always had oversudsing issues with both Finish and the old, now discontinued, Electrsol.

answer to questions

Thanks for the quick responses!! I never, never, never ever pre-rinse and the water is medium hardness, leaning toward soft. I don't use rinse aid. The over sudsing happens all the time with Cascade and often with Finish. Currently I have been using WalMart's Great Value powder, but I hate going to WalMart. When I can find it, I use Cascade powder. I haven't seen Finish powder for several years. Don't even know if it's still made. I don't like not being able to control the amount of product I use. (and I feel the same way about laundry pods, but that's another story). I always load both dispensers and mostly use the 1 hour cycle on both machines that uses more water and less time. Unless an item has something burnt or baked on, this cycle never fails me.

If you have an older machine with the 2 dispensers, they were made for powders and gels. If using pods just put it in the 2nd dispenser. The first dispenser cycle becomes a long prewash.

 

[appnut]

I always put the pod in the main wash dispenser and squirt a little liquid gel or ppwder detergent on the door. Although there's noofficial prewash dispenseer, there seems to be a small indention on the detergent dispenser on my Bosch once I close the deterrget dispenser door.

 

[jrap330]

I always put the pod in the main wash dispenser and squirt a little liquid gel or ppwder detergent on the door. Although there's noofficial prewash dispenseer, there seems to be a small indention on the detergent dispenser on my Bosch once I close the deterrget dispenser door.

Ok,that should be fine. Did you ever consider a little Citrus acid in the first dispenser? As a pre-clean of the dishwasher.

 

[appnut]

Citric Acid? No

 

[combo52]

Best dishwasher detergent

Unless you have a water softener or perfectly soft water, you should always use the pods in dishwashers today, the liquids or powders alone will just not do the job.

I would also always use two shots of detergent. If you’re doing really dirty loads, for us, I use a Costco pod usually and then some sort of liquid dishwasher detergent in the pre-wash cup.

 

[johnb300m]

Well gee, it smells and sounds like marketing to me.

Yes of course it’s marketing. These are marketing dominant and driven organizations. On consumer goods, engineers and chemists are subservient to marketing.