What Dishwashing liquid are You Using

[filterflo58]

ive tried the ajax lime with bleach alternative..awful..doesnt cut grease that well unless you use a large amount and doesnt last long at all..back to palmolive or dawn i go.

 

[~sudsshane]

Angus-

Yes, indeed. It is the original Vel Dishwashing liquid, not Vel Rosita, for Woolens, which I am also a fan of.
It is readily available in all of the Spanish Grocery stores here in Central Florida, and Colgate-Palmolive, Puerto Rico still manufactures it. Dermassage is still sold here also.
If you would like, email me privately, and we can make arrangements to ship you some.

 

[dirtybuck]

Squeeze or Capful?

How do you measure the amount of liquid detergent you put in your dishwater? I've recently started using the capful method. Depending on the size of the cap and whether it's regular or ultra strength, I generally put in 1 1/2 to 2.

 

[nickuk]

In the UK (and other areas), our equivalent of `Dawn' is called Fairy.

Standard Dawn is blue, whereas standard Fairy is green.

Has anybody used both products? Do they perform similarly? I wonder if one of our `Fairy' variants has the same scent as blue Dawn. We do have a blue version of Fairy but it's one of the antibacterial ones.

I was tempted to order some blue Dawn online just out of curiosity, a mere snip at £14 a bottle :-0

Thanks

 

[liamy1]

FAIRY

Fairy (UKs version of DAWN) and ONLY Fairy (open to most scents though original Green is my fave)

 

[vintagekenmore]

For me it's Palmolive or Dawn original...I can't find Joy in the stores here in Houston any longer

 

[vacerator]

usually what is on sale

Ajax, etc. I get the bleach alternative without lemon for my better non 18/10 flatware. They don't fit in my dishwasher flatware basket.
I wipe my composite granite sink down with it, rinse, and dry to a nice glow.

 

[abcomatic]

I use Palmolive.
The one that I really miss is: Dove. I used it on my good china and it was wonderful.
What ever happened to: Lux, Dove, Pink Thrill and original formula Ivory?

 

[lordkenmore]

Right now, it's a decision heavily influenced by price. Most common brand: probably Ajax. (I might have tried it first because of Ajax praise from one person here.) But I have also bought Dawn (on really good sale) and recently got the cheapest Fred Meyer/Kroger home brand (99cents for a big bottle), which was probably not the best detergent ever, but worked OK for my needs.

I have heard arguments that better detergents are better values because they go further. But I hate washing dishes so much that I tend to do a lot. I'd rather do it more often, and have it done faster, than do it once a day and face a depressing mountain of dishes. Thus, cheap detergent probably is good enough.

In the past, I had a period of using "green" detergents. I think they might be easier on hands, and the scents are certainly nicer. But the price is too much for me now.

I also have had a tendency of changing brands just "for something different." I'm doing that less, now, since price has become #1 concern, and Ajax is always cheap.

 

[lordkenmore]

I recall the pink detergent mentioned above... It always looked so intriguing on the shelf at the grocery store, but my mother always bought something else. (I'm not sure she was 100% loyal, but I do recall her using Palmolive.) I think we might have had the pink stuff once, but only once. I have a sense the consensus was it didn't work as well. Probably one of those "the checking account is getting low, got to buy the cheapest!" moments....)

 

[lordkenmore]

And it just occurred to me the dish detergent I'd really like to use is NONE! I dream of a dishwasher the way normal guys my age dream of a new BMW. At times, I think I'd like to set things up so I never, ever hand wash again once I have a dishwasher...

 

[ilovewindex]

Dawn or Ivory... Usual Dawn i find on clearance sales, down to like 3 bottles so need more..

 

[liamy1]

Lordkenmore...

We can but dream

I have a Dishwasher (would never not have one), however, somethings just cannot do the Dishwasher dance too well

(Mainly insulated travel mugs, wood chopping boards/stirring spoons etc).

However, I try to adopt the "if it is not dishwasher safe, it is unwelcome in my home" approach as much as possible, even putting things in the DW that I really should not, accepting the risk they will break sooner.

However, just 1 or 2 things I simply must handwash. As a side note, dish liquid is a fantastic all purpose cleaner, especially mixed with Chlorine Bleach (we can mix dish liquid and bleach here in the UK, as no commercially available cleaning product contains ammonia).

 

[washerboy]

Only Dawn ultra for dishes...Dawn non-ultra for washing the car, truck and refilling the soap dispencers in the bathroom and kitchen sink.

I miss: The smell of Lux..my mother used it until they stopped making it.
The smell of Peach Thrill...my grand mother and aunt used it.

 

[circlew]

I'm still using Professional Dawn; just bought a new jug a couple weeks ago.

Menard's had 1 gal. jugs of Palmolive Professional dish detergent on sale at a very good price several months ago, and I picked one up for one of my neighbors. She told me the other day that she likes it very well - actually better than Dawn.

 

[wayupnorth]

I use AJAX liquid in my pump soap dispensers for hand washing, because its cheap and works to take all the grease, dirt, etc you can get on your hands and Walmarts cheapie Great Value dishwasher soap. I cant see spending more when they all work just fine for me. Thats my clinical test of them and I know where my clinic is. Ask your doctor, LOL.

 

[mattl]

I keep one of those huge bottles of Dawn Ultra in the back corner of my sink cabinet and ran a hose to the soap/lotion dispenser.  Generally lasts me a year or so, use it for everything, dishes, hands whatever.  Only Dawn here.

 

[mark_wpduet]

Used to use only Dawn or Palmolive

but we bought this huge Kirkland brand bottle of liquid dish soap. I think the label says "environmentally responsible dishwashing liquid" or something like that. It is really good stuff. It feels as strong as Dawn does to me. I really don't ever wash dishes by hand. But I always have dishwashing liquid at the sink so that I can clean the sinks or soak something. I refill my old bottle of dawn with it and keep the giant bottle under the sink.

I remember the pink stuff. Most horrible dishwashing liquid EVER!!!

But this kirkland stuff really does work well. There are certain things I will not ever buy generic and certain things I will (especially when it comes to food), but things like rubbing alcohol, peroxide, paper towels, hand soap, dish liquid, I've been buying generic for a long time now.

 

[artcurus]

I like use the really cheap lemon scented stuff sometimes for general house cleaning. Joy or store brand.

Lately, for "quick" dishwashing jobs, I really like the blue HEB (Southern store chain) with Oxy. The smell is not quite Dawn, it has a "cleaner" very slight bleachy smell.

 

[mjg0619]

My mother swears by Dawn, I swear by any of the citrus scent varieties of Ajax or the good old fashioned green Palmolive. Those are the only two that shall grace my kitchen sink!

Presently for the dishwasher, we use Finish Quantum Powerball tabs. They seem to work the best in the PlasticPride GE dishpisser. It's not the worst machine in the world but it's certainly not the KitchenAid it replaced, nor is it my dream machine, a Maytag JetClean!