laundry detergent merging with dish soap

[golittlesport]

what next in the way of Tide flavors? Let's combine Dawn dish soap with Tide laundry detergent.

 

[danemodsandy]

Dish Detergent...

...Is all very well in its place, but I remember one time that my partner forgot to pick up dishwasher gel, and substituted Ajax Liquid, filling every detergent cup in sight with it.

Kitchen looked like a damn I Love Lucy episode before five minutes had passed.

* giggle *

 

[westyslantfront]

Tide with Dawn....but....what about phosphates??...The old Tide formula with phosphates was better than what we have now....Are we doing laundry or dishes??

Ross

 

[mickeyd]

Rich, are you old enough to remember when all detergents cam

We used powdered Breeze for years, which, for a while came with a nice, free, all-cotton dish towel. Recall them being mostly white with colorful striped borders.

When soaking huge roasters or outdoor cooking nasties, I always use Tide.

 

[tomturbomatic]

What is even stupider is the dishwasher detergent "with Dawn grease cutters." How would a hand dishwashing detergent have better grease cutters than a higher alkaline detergent for machine dishwashing when the hand dishwashing detergent has to be buffered to protect the skin of the hands doing the washing? Many hand dishwashing detergents contain ammonia which becomes instantly apparent if chlorine bleach is added to the cleaning solution. I have not seen ammonia listed as an ingredient in machine dishwasher detergents because they use much stronger and more effective alkaline builders. I think all of the Dawn stuff is more hype. There was a laundry detergent, Surf maybe, that for a while was available in an HE formula. After the HE stuff was discontinued, the powder formula proclaimed that it had "ALL Stainfighters" which seemed stupid since the ALL formula at the time did not even contain enzymes to help with stains.

 

[spoodles]

Like the other 9,000 versions of Tide weren't enough.

Next month : Tide with Colgate.

 

[oxydolfan1]

Well, I guess this was as predictable as Armageddon, when you consider the success of another "hybrid" product, the Cascade with Dawn dishwasher packs (an excellent product in my dishwasher, I might add, but somewhat expensive)...also Tide with Febreeze, so they've turned this trick already.

I think I'd rather have a Tide dishwashing detergent, lol!

Come to think of it, you see this in personal care as well.

There is a Lever 2000 body wash with "Vaseline Intensive Care" lotion built in....

I guess they're pushing the "value-added" aspect.

 

[sudsmaster]

I've seen some Mexican laundry detergents show sparkling dishes on the packaging. Most recently I've seen it on bars of laundry soap, as I recall.

I would probably recommend wearing rubber gloves if washing dishes in laundry detergent. The washing soda is rather harsh and alkaline and likely not to be very nice to hands. For the same reason, it probably cuts grease and baked on food better than hand-friendly dishwash liquids.

 

[rp2813]

I had a biker friend who owned an old farm house in Sonoma county. His water was awful, I presume from a well but it had an overpowering iron smell and taste and would even turn clear drinking glasses amber over time. He used nothing but Tide for both laundry (in his ancient Maytag wringer) and dishes, and it worked well for both jobs even with that nasty water. So don't be surprised if Tide does indeed come out with a dish detergent, or at the very least we may see "Dawn with Tide" on the market soon!

 

[tomturbomatic]

The old Dash box used to have a blurb saying Dash was formulated for automatic washing machines, not for cleaning dishes, floors or anything else. The rest of the old detergents used to advocate their use for dishes and other tasks. Tide would sure remove wax from a car in a flash. A friend did that after her father had paid to have her car detailed.

 

[sudsmaster]

Tide would sure remove wax from a car in a flash

Even dishwash liquid is not recommended for washing cars. And the washing soda in powdered Tide likely not only would remove wax, but would also attack the paint as well, dulling the finish (etching it)....

 

[oldhouseman]

Don't forget the temperature

Whatever soap I use, I always use very hot water with the dishes. It seems to clean faster. I have some dishware that cannot go into a dishwasher. By the way, does anyone use borax? I find it usefull in somehousehold cleaning. I used to see some products that advertised "with borax". Borax and hot water do a pretty good job cleaning the kitchen sink and bathtub.

 

[nmaineman36]

Tide long ago in the powder version said you could wash dishes with it. I tried it once...never again...the water was so slick that trying to grab dishes in the sink was a challenge. It made them extremely slippery and rinsing was interesting...took long to rinse under a running stream of hot water. And Tide used to be used for washing floors as well. Never tried that but my grandmother swore by it for her floors and walls.

 

[neptunebob]

At a donut store I worked at we always used Tide and it really was the best. Grainger sells a very large box of Institutional Tide and it has directions for Fast Food Cleaning of floors (1 cup per mop bucket in the customer areas, twice as much in the kitchen). Also good for cleaning the hood baffles and fryers. It is harsh on hands though.

 

[jeff_adelphi]

Tide with Listerine

How about Tide with Listerine, for those with smelly front-loaders?

 

[golittlesport]

hahaha....that's a good one. Tide with Listerine - ends bad breath in your washer.

 

[MikeS]

If P&G Continues The "With" Trend:

Iams With A Touch Of Scope.
Always With Frebreze
Pringles With Crest
Mr. Clean Magic Eraser With Olay
And of course...
Tide With A Touch Of Gain!

 

[cehalstead]

tide for dishes

My grandmother NEVER used anything but Tide for her dishes. My older cousin and I always had "kitchen duty" after family dinners. I do remember the dishes being very slippery to rinse, and it took a lot of water to rinse them. But she had the "cleanest dishcloth in town"....

 

[frigilux]

Correct me if I'm wrong: I'm quite sure the 'Dawn' in Cascade Gel Pacs isn't the same thing you squirt from the bottle of dishwashing liquid. Having opened a pac, it isn't the same consistency as regular Dawn, and it burns the skin a bit on contact. Maybe it has some of the same chemical makeup and thus can be licensed as 'Dawn'.

Similarly, I'll bet the 'Dawn' in liquid Tide isn't the same as the 'Dawn' in Cascade Gel Pacs.