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@tomturbomatic

In regards to people who don't rinse dishes, I can look at cooking classes at the local school. Only a single sink, full of water, with no place to rinse dishes. Simply dried and put away. No steam wash, no hygiene, no nothing. I'd avoid that class like the plague!

There would also be people such as farmers who don't have much rainwater, and save water by not rinsing, or just pouring a little water from the kettle on the dishes.

@strongenough78'

+1 to your statement! From stories told to me by others about their childhood, I've heard of lazy parents who use 1/4 of a box of washing machine detergent IN THE 70s! This created chafing and rashes for those concerned, due to poor rinsing machines then (or too much detergent).
Some people are just too lazy.

Finish 1.5kg double concentrate powder recommend 25g for any wash in the dishwasher (like the old Asko 1302 manuals), but F&P only recommend that much for a Heavy Wash (or fill the cup for hard water), so in effect, you waste 10g or so of detergent. We started using less since I saw the amount of suds the dish-drawer was producing with that amount, and because the manual recommends less
 
Rinsing Handwashed Dishes

By dipping them into a basin of "clean" water always bothered me as well.

Ok, maybe for a few dishes that water is clean but after a sinkfull that water probably contains tons of soap residue.

Am guessing pesons who used this and the "no rinse" method grew up and or learned housekeeping from those who lived through hard times. That or had little access to fresh running water thus had to make what was had last.
 
I need to correct myself from above. Nasal sprays contain benzalkonium chloride, not sodium benzoate which is used in some foods and sodas. But really, you don't want ANYthing with "B-E-N-Z" in you or on you.

Dioxin is a spectrum of at least a dozen compounds with varying toxicity. The tetrachloros are the worst and set the equivalent-toxicity scale for the others. None are a component of detergents.

The Persil list above calls stearic acid a surfactant. That's patently wrong. It's anhydrous animal fat, a waxy powder. If you melt it and pour it into a mold with a wick, it makes candles. Stearic acid is a surfactant precursor. You'll find almost all shaving creams are stearic acid and triethanolamine which saponifies the stearic. Stearic/trieth (triethanolamine stearate, TES) was the basis of early commercial soaps just past the lye/lard stage. But seriously, would you wash clothes in shaving cream?

TES is the foundational surfactant of my skin lotion. It also uses diammonium phosphate, propylene glycol, and carbomer 940 as co-emulsifiers and stabilzers. One lab used sodium-hex instead of 940 but they made other mistakes so I found another lab.
 
Persil List

Arbilab. I was waiting to see if anyone would catch that! Good for you! If you go thru that list again you'l catch another!

Also the list dose not tell us what the percentages ( by weight ) are.
 
I differ with some of their functional definitions. And what the devil are 2 natural sugars and one artificial one doing in detergent? Not to mention putting calcium carbonate, the thing that makes hard water hard, in detergent for a hardwater market?

Polyethylene Terephthalate is what they made mylar recording tape out of. It's also what they make soda bottles out of because it's a better gas barrier than polypropylene or polyethylene. Most likely the packaging but erroneously included in the ingredients.
 
Thanks, but only 'good' for a layman/amateur. I can't "swear" that Polyethylene Terephthalate has no sequestrant properties. There is more about surfactancy and sequestration that I DON'T understand than I do.
 
I can't see that it is either?

Also can't see ordinary household laundry detergent requiring all these ingredients just to get textiles clean at home?
How many surfactants, water softening ingredients, and artificial perfumes are necessary? seems like a list of contradictions that Einstein could figure out.

P.S did you notice the Dextrin ??
 
Dextrin was one of the sugars.

The formula for Tide HE (what I use) made much more sense to me. They don't put sugar, plastic, or water HARDENERS in it. OR BENZENES, which can be a health issue.

As an engineer I don't admire overwrought formulas or designs. And I'd call Persil one, though many Euros swear by it.
 
No idea what's in Jetdry. Do I want to eat it? Probably not.

Half cup of vinegar in the first rinse does it for me, but you gotta be standing there and catch it.
 
catch me up

people hand wash dishes without rinsing them??...really. I'v lived through hard times but I don't think I've ever been so poor I couldn't risne the dishes and flatware. I'm always scratching my head when I see those vintage 1950's ads for Tide.."with or without rinsing". I wonder what a man's skin was like after he'd been doing manual labor all day sweating in clothing with dried Tide in the fabric..I'm thinking blistered/raw pits and privates.
 
Here you go Jerrod

Persil Universal-Megaperls

• ZEOLITHE
• SODIUM CARBONATE PEROXIDE
• BENZOLSULFONSÄURE, C10-13-ALKYLDERIVATE, NATRIUMSALZE
• TAED
• AQUA
• SODIUM CARBONATE
• SODIUM LAURYL SULFATE
• SODIUM SULFATE
• FETTALKOHOLETHOXYLAT C12-18 7EO
• POLYCARBOXYLAT-NA
• CP ANIONISCH MOD. ALKYLENGLYKOLPHTHALAT
• SODIUM CITRATE
• CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE, NA-SALZ
• POLYETHYLENGLYKOL MG 4000
• STÄRKE
• TETRASODIUM ETIDRONATE
• FETTSÄUREN, C16-18-, NATRIUMSALZE
• SODIUM BICARBONATE
• PARFUM
• ZEA MAYS (CORN) SEED FLOUR
• STÄRKE
• HEPTANATRIUMTRIHYDROGEN[[BIS[2-
[BIS(PHOSPHONATOMETHYL)AMINO]ETHYL]AMINO]METHYL]PHOSPHONAT
• SODIUM CHLORIDE
• FETTALKOHOLETHOXYLAT C13-15 7EO
• OPTICAL BRIGHTNER
• NATRIUMGLYKOLAT
• POLYETHYLENGLYKOL
• COLORANT
• SI-OXID AMORPH
• PROTEASE
• HEXYL CINNAMAL
• LINALOOL
• BENZYL SALICYLATE
• LIPASE TYP LIPEX
• AMYLASE
• CELLULASE
• MANNANASE TYP MANNAWAY
 
Megaperls Color

• ZEOLITE
• SODIUM DODECYLBENZENESULFONATE
• AQUA (WATER)
• SODIUM LAURYL SULFATE
• SODIUM CITRATE
• C12-18 FATTY ALCOHOL 7 EO
• CITRIC ACID
• SODIUM BICARBONATE
• SODIUM CARBONATE
• SODIUM SULFATE
• SODIUM ACRYLIC ACID/MA COPOLYMER
• SULFONATED POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE
• PEG-80
• CELLULOSE GUM
• TETRASODIUM ETIDRONATE
• ZEA MAYS (CORN) STARCH
• SODIUM SOAP C16-18
• PERFUME
• CORN FLOUR
• SODIUM HYDROXIDE
• SODIUM CHLORIDE
• VINYLPYRROLIDONE/VINYLIMIDAZOLE COPOLYMER
• PVP
• SODIUM GLYCOLATE
• HYDRATED SILICA
• PEG-14M
• PROTEASE
• HEXYL CINNAMAL
• LINALOOL
• BENZYL SALICYLATE
• AMYLASE
• CELLULASE
• MANNANASE
• LIPASE
• COLORANT
 
Curses! Look what's gotten into our Racket! Drug Raid!

Makes me wonder about the stolen TIDE heist, a few months ago!

These people are obviously unaware of the stuff they're washing their clothes with, or they all-along must have been needing that TIDE for something OTHER than 'doing their laundry' with!

-- Dave
 
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