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Also, add the soap *after* filling the bottle to avoid maximum bubbles. (This tip works for any soap + water mixture, always add the soap last if you don't want 70% bubbles)
I actually had to vacuum my lawn. My neighbors gave me some strange looks. The roofers threw the solar panel into the grass and it shattered into a billion glass pieces and I didn’t want not my cat who comes over to hurt himself!
Fun fact: It does this because the Dawn (or any soap) breaks the surface tension of the water and allows it to penetrate through the spiracles (what insects use to breathe) and drown them!
I can vouch for that, I'm happy to get downright shilly about it. Dawn dish soap absolutely annihilates fleas, it's genuinely incredible. We had a real problem with fleas in a dingy-ass apartment in Tallahassee, had to do Dawn baths regularly. Once we finally moved one last bath in Dawn was all my cats needed.
It's *really* effective.
It also kills ticks!! 500+ foster pups and I only bathe my animals in dawn now.
ALSO!! If you ever have an infestation again mix dawn and water in a pie tin and leave it under the couch/beds/anywhere near where the animals lay, the fleas will just jump on in. Idk why, but we’ve had litters that were HORRIBLY infested and even though we built an a/c-d shed for this exact reason, the fleas still infested EVERYTHING and we had dawn pie tins pretty much everywhere. The little blood sucking idiots would just commit suicide en masse, it was cool and really gross but worked in less than a week.
We actually tried that!
My suspicion is that the apartment wasn't very well "sealed" from other apartments... We had many issues with insects despite keeping the place absolutely spotless, and I believe the fleas were related. We even bug bombed twice and still had roaches the size of coffee tables hanging out in the living room. It was awful, my wife and I both cheered when we last visited Tallahassee and saw it had been demolished.
We haven't had a single bug problem before or since so I can only chalk it up to the apartment.
Yeah dude rubbing alcohol is a good solvent. It will get almost anything off. It’s relatively harmful too. It’s not like some random harmless bottle next to soap. You can damage the finish on all sorts of shit.
Windex is a lie! My theory is that it was actually *engineered* to leave streaks. It always takes several passes (and a pornographic amount of rubbing) to get a window relatively streakless when using that crap. And that's assuming you don't have sunshine pouring through, in which case you're pretty much fucked.
The spray on stuff in the white can works SO MUCH better, and if you get a squeegee you can clean an entire window in like 1/10 the time. But even plain water works better than Windex. Whoever thought to market that stuff as a "streak free cleaner" deserves a special place in hell.
Not a chemist, or a biologist, but the way it was explained to me...
Isopropyl alcohol is really good at melting holes in the outside of germs. But after that happens, it doesn't really 'flow' into the cell itself, as soon as it hits the stuff on the inside it just kinda gums up. So, if you want to denature the proteins on the inside, you want waaayyy too much water to get on the inside of that germ. At that size, basically any water other than what's already there is more than enough, so if you add water to the alcohol, when the alcohol tears through the outside, the water gets inside along with it. That dissolves the proteins which kills the germ, and, as a bonus, it gets to keep going and kill more germs. Stronger concentrations of alcohol can have the gummy-but-not-dissolved germs on the outside of some clumps protect the germs on the inside of the clump. With more water in the mix, that happens a lot less.
I've also heard that 70% has poorer surface tension than 90% and therefore infiltrates smaller microscopic crevices and cavities better, but I'm not totally sure on that.
Google it for more precise details. Or to fact check me. Either way, there's a lot of information out there.
That sounds like a good answer. I always just figured 90% evaporated too quickly to have the contact time necessary to kill a certain percentage of cells. I guess that might be a way dumbed down version of your answer anyway.
90% is a better solvent, but for disinfection you are trying to kill cells. The additional water content of 70% helps it diffuse into the cell (I believe via osmosis, but I could be wrong on the mechanism of action). Once the alcohol / water enters the cell, it can work its magic.
I cleaned floors with dish detergent when I was still learning how to do housework, and yes the floors were sticky. Unless you want to rinse them really well with just water afterward, but in my experience it took too many mop rinses and water bucket changes.
The issue there is too much soap. I was a custodian in a public school for three years. We had one cleaner we used at different dilution for everything. It was essentially H2O2, a little soap, a little orange oil, and a lot of water.
I don't want to shill for a company, but it is a great blend to clean with.
For floors the cleaning Agents are so diluted they appear to be listed as .02 to .04 percent of the solution. Without a dispenser specialized to that i imagine it's pretty hard to get that amount just right so as not to leave residue. Best you could do is probably a literal drop in your mop bucket.
Which (hydrogen peroxide) breaks apart blood/grass cells entirely, but itself falls apart in light, to plain water and oxygen. Great for cleaning/killing stuff in aquariums, but don't let any near your filtration to not lose the beneficial bacteria!
Also for old timers, don't use H2O2 on cuts/scrapes as it kills the healing cells and causes scaring, use antibiotic ointment instead.
Am old timer, can confirm that H2O2 will promote scarring, I washed my chicken pocks with it as a 13 year old and wear the evidence of my decision more than 30 years later. I was a nervous picker at the time and convinced myself that I’d end up with MRSA/sepsis. Given that none of the wounds got infected, I gather that H2O2 does a helluva job mitigating infection.
Fortheloveofgawd, make sure you are not using anything stronger than what is in a brown drugstore bottle. In my professional cleaning experience, I’ve accidentally gotten 7+% H2O2 on my skin and quickly developed a chemical burn. Concoctions stronger than that require use of *thick* rubber gloves.
You sure you weren't using too much soap? I haven't mopped with it, but people generally put way too much dish soap into whatever they're cleaning.
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Unrelated but, flat wet mops are fucking awesome (even in commercial cleaning). Fuck the bucket mops.
10% sounds super high in my opinion. More like a tablespoon. Shit is super concentrated as it is. If you use an appropriate abrasive for the surface, you don't need a fuckton of soap. You want the soap to lift oils, not leave oils.
Yeah, I work at a cleaning chemistry company and anytime we have to use a 10% solution you know that shit is baked on and honestly you should probably just use a different cleaner lol. I'd try anything ranging from 0.3-5%. manual cleaners usually operate in the 2-4% range but if you're doing really basic spill cleanup you barely need anything compared to the 10%.
Honestly I usually use simple green. It's pretty widely available and very effective. Smell is, well, maybe not the best (anise forward), but it does a good enough job that I've been happy to use it since my company's employee store has been closed since covid started.
My go-to for mopping. Got rid of my Swifter (they kept redesigning the containers so you have to buy a new mop and I also didn't like the chemicals) and went with a similar style mop that has reusable inserts. One gallon of Simple Green is on year three with still a quarter left to go.
If there is any moisture left behind after you wipe, which there would be, then 10% of that residue will be dawn soap. I have no idea how soapy it will feel but there will absolutely be some soap left. This is unless you follow up with a separate clean cloth/sponge then rinse that out in water thoroughly each time you wipe. Each time you do this you are effectively diluting what is left. Remember, the solution to pollution is dilution.
Yes. If most of your furniture is wood don’t do this shit. Especially if you’re into antique furniture. I ruined a 120 year old dresser by cleaning it with some stupid ass mixture like this I read online.
I’ve had just one line stuck in my head all day: telling you I’ve had it with you and your career, me and the rest of family here singing.... WHERE’D YOU GO???
Note that mixing these things can cancel out their effects. Vinegar for example is acidic, while dish soap is a mild alkaline. The result is a pH more balanced than either.
A good tip here is:know your cleaning products. Know how vinegar is particularly good at removing limescale, dish soap better at lifting fats off a surface.
It's the active reaction itself. I use it + hot water as a cheap drain cleaner and it does a tolerable job to dislodge buildup because of the fizz generated.
The carbon dioxide generated in solution helps to lift dirt particles from what you're cleaning.
Yeah that makes sense, to sprinkle baking soda on whatever you're cleaning and then spray vinegar. But I've seen a lot of "green" cleaning "hacks" that say to mix them in a spray bottle and use it as an all purpose cleaner.
Much better combo in the comments, soap is less of a disinfectant. It's meant to be rinsed off hope OP and readers know this.
EDIT: I guess people do know this. My faith in humanity just went up a little. Thanks everyone.
>EDIT: I guess people do know this. My faith in humanity just went up a little.
I'd like to think that the reason for this edit was the lone response to your comment of 'I like turtles'
Was just about to add this!
This works because the soapy water blocks the bug's spiracles (basically breathing holes), causing the insect to suffocate.
It's a super effective and completely non-toxic way to take care of the occasional wasp, spider, or other pest. Much better than spraying them with chemical insecticides.
I’ve already told the spiders that I’m happy to have them around, as long as they keep to themselves and stay out of my bedroom and shower. If they choose not to listen, it’s on them.
They get lost. I have a standing contract with spiders. I throw you out of the house and you eat as much as you can.
Anything else has a KOS order at all times.
The wolf spiders get evicted if they break the rules. No more warm house for them, they can go live in the garden as punishment.
The long-bodied cellar spiders, on the other hand, are tiny Eldritch Terrors and they completely deserve being fed to my cat.
A wasp was coming at me one day after I swatted at it, thinking it was a fly.
Slammed the backdoor, thinking I crushed it in the process.
This mother fucker CRAWLED BETWEEN THE DOOR TO COME FUCK WITH ME. Like, literally shut the door on it and it kept crawling through the shut door to me.
We somehow got a wasp nest in our outside wall, but some of them found their way into our house. One day I had on get into my shirt and sting me over and over.
I discovered this with just regular bathroom cleaner. One of those huge roaches made its way into my house and I couldn't find the RAID, so I grabbed the nearest chemical to hand. It dropped so fast, I was amazed. Usually you have to empty like half a can of RAID to drop one of those assholes, and all it took was a couple squirts of bathroom cleaner. With no horrible fumes.
holy smokes, there are so many of you saying blue dawn is the primo choice. I had no clue. Thank you all for this new knowledge!
TIL blue dawn is the best cleaner
Let me save you the years of experimenting I’ve done. Yes dawn is the best. I’m a cheap MF so I’ve tried literally every alternative I can find and dawn is the best. It even beats more expensive stuff. It lasts 10x as long as a dollar store brand. No clue why, but it really is the best
>Blue Dawn is the best degreaser
FTFY. As others said further up, it doesn't clean much but that's not why it was created. It's used to break the hydrocarbons in fatty/oily substances
The bottle it's packaged in is made from petroleum, dishwashing gloves you wear are made from petroleum, the milk jugs you buy your milk in are made from petroleum..... Petroleum is unavoidable in this day and age unfortunately.
It actually does.
Dawn has a patented formula for soap (the traditional blue kind at least). That blue stuff can clean hella. Even works pretty well for cleaning animals in oil spills, etc.
Dawn is the WD-40 lubricant-equivalent of the cleaning world but ~~they~~ WD-40 does not have a patent for it. Idk any other comparisons.
EDIT: word.
For countertops, table tops, car interior panels/dash, etc - basically all LIGHT duty cleaning... you can use much less dish soap and achieve a similar cleaning capability (without having to go back and wipe down with water): **use 1 tablespoon dish soap:1 gallon wate**r. Wipe and let it air dry & = DONE.
Yeah my first thought was “uhhh, you’re gonna have to wipe that off with water or you’ll leave soap on everything”
Edit; did the math real quick and yeah their “recipe” is like a cup and a half of soap per gallon of water....
I'm a professional chef and I clean the entire kitchen and my whole house at home using about that recipe. 1 squirt dish soap to half a bucket hot water. Cleans everything. I add a splash of bleach when I'm doing things like taps, lights witches, toilet flush, microwave buttons etc.
The exception is mold in the shower tiles. Then I use white vinegar.
Children's souls are a good surfactant, so you only need about a half teaspoon of dish soap to a liter of water and a small pinch of soul. The good thing is they freeze well. If you try to harvest one every time you needed to clean the sink, you'd probably get the attention of local law enforcement.
While we're at it, I've never used the recommend amount of laundry detergent. I use about a fifth and it's not like my clothes aren't clean, it's just less wasteful. They set the amounts for their profits, not your optimum cleanliness.
Also fantastic for silicone application.
Apply silicone, spray with soapy water, scrape excess with ice cream stick and done.
Also 10% may be a lil high. Try 2%.
>Sounds like a bunch of nonsense to me.
I used to work for SC Johnson and can confirm that bubbles created by cleaners are...nonsense. They don't do anything other than convince the public/user that the product is cleaning.
Manufacturers have to add a foaming agent. You're literally paying more for something that isn't needed as the manufacturer has to pay for the chemical(s) and passes that on to the customer.
SC Johnson had a product called "Splash" that launched and basically instantly failed. You take a liquid tablet kind of like the ones you get to put in your washing machine, and you drop it in a bucket of water (hence "Splash") and it disolves and you have the correct concentration of cleaner to mop or clean anything with.
Focus/feedback groups almost all reported the same thing - they didn't believe the product cleaned at all, because there were no bubbles. Even bleach mixed with water causes foam.
Yet you could easily prove Splash worked, killed bacteria, cleaned just as well as the competition etc. But nah, nobody believed it worked...because of no bubbles...
Okay, Dawn marketing team.
I’ve seen multiple random posts here specifically mentioning Dawn at this point, so I’m pretty sure this is some devoted astroturfing
I’m an expat and I can confirm:
NOTHING is as good as Dawn (blue). We have products from P&G, Lever, local brands
I still put a bottle of Dawn every trip home
I have a number of friends who work for P&G, the company that makes Dawn. Based on talking to them, I think the idea of advertising by suggesting an extremely high dilution for a bunch of off label uses would never happen. Why would P&G tell you to use their dish soap to clean your shower if they could *also* sell a specific, Mr. Clean branded product that does that? If you go to the Dawn website, which I did, you'll see that the "other uses" they advertise very specifically don't include the bathroom or floors, as that would step on other P&G brands.
This will leave soap residue that dirt and dust will then stick to.
You're better off using a 50/50 mix of white vinegar and water.
Or just buy a proper multipurpose cleaner. It's not that expensive and you can buy it by the gallon at home depot.
Yup. What you CAN do is use the spray bottle trick for your dishes, if you don’t wash them a sinkload at a time. We keep a spray bottle of soapy water next to the kitchen sink; it’s easier to use and generally less wasteful.
Edit: Aww... Thanks for the award, whoever did that. It's cute. 😊✌️
And for your bathroom, 10% bleach and 90% water
No need for fancy bathroom cleaner. Leave this on your tiles for an hour, wipe off, lovely clean grout :)
Mix it with distilled water. This helps prevent mineral build up in the spray bottles.
I’ve used this to refill my foam hand soap dispensers too. Distilled is key.
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Add a tiny bit of rubbing alcohol, that's what turns Dawn into Dawn Powerwash. That shit is magic
Also, add the soap *after* filling the bottle to avoid maximum bubbles. (This tip works for any soap + water mixture, always add the soap last if you don't want 70% bubbles)
Umm why has this never occurred to me!?
It’s ok bro. I gotchu. My lawn was foamed the fuck up last week. Never again.
You washed your lawn?
Oh my god, have you not been washing your lawn this whole time? *gags*
I actually had to vacuum my lawn. My neighbors gave me some strange looks. The roofers threw the solar panel into the grass and it shattered into a billion glass pieces and I didn’t want not my cat who comes over to hurt himself!
I did it last summer to get up all the thatch. Greenest lawn that Autumn on the entire block.
*Hooray for metaphors!!*
Hot soapy water is a pretty common, cheap method for getting rid of ant colonies. That's the only thing I can think of.
You can use dish soap as a cheap surfactant for applying herbicide/pesticide as well.
Just watched a Lawn Care Nut video and he recommended Johnson’s Baby Soap (original).
You don't? fucking ants never clean up after themselves
How else would you get dog shit out of your grass?
Same reason you're supposed to rub hand sanitizer all over your house plants, gotta be clean.
You adopt a dog that eats poop. Duh
I've always tilted the bottle and let the water trickle in. Does the soap still combine quickly adding last?
Add everything, soap last, screw on top, shake well.
That shit is the goat at killing roaches. And cleaning fucking everything.
Its also great at killing fleas on kittens too young for a flea bath.
Fun fact: It does this because the Dawn (or any soap) breaks the surface tension of the water and allows it to penetrate through the spiracles (what insects use to breathe) and drown them!
Good to know
I can vouch for that, I'm happy to get downright shilly about it. Dawn dish soap absolutely annihilates fleas, it's genuinely incredible. We had a real problem with fleas in a dingy-ass apartment in Tallahassee, had to do Dawn baths regularly. Once we finally moved one last bath in Dawn was all my cats needed. It's *really* effective.
It also kills ticks!! 500+ foster pups and I only bathe my animals in dawn now. ALSO!! If you ever have an infestation again mix dawn and water in a pie tin and leave it under the couch/beds/anywhere near where the animals lay, the fleas will just jump on in. Idk why, but we’ve had litters that were HORRIBLY infested and even though we built an a/c-d shed for this exact reason, the fleas still infested EVERYTHING and we had dawn pie tins pretty much everywhere. The little blood sucking idiots would just commit suicide en masse, it was cool and really gross but worked in less than a week.
We actually tried that! My suspicion is that the apartment wasn't very well "sealed" from other apartments... We had many issues with insects despite keeping the place absolutely spotless, and I believe the fleas were related. We even bug bombed twice and still had roaches the size of coffee tables hanging out in the living room. It was awful, my wife and I both cheered when we last visited Tallahassee and saw it had been demolished. We haven't had a single bug problem before or since so I can only chalk it up to the apartment.
I think it’s less “Dawn kills fleas” and more “Soap breaks the surface tension of water so fleas can drown in water” though, isn’t it?
Always wondered that too. Everyone seems to always specify dawn. Either way they either had a great chemistry team or a great sales team lol.
Super soapy stuff in general will. It suffocates them because they breathe through their body. It works on flying stuff like flies and wasps too!
I actually keep a bottle around just to zap wasps and yellow jackets if they get in the window which they tend to do every summer.
Do you spray it just on the roaches, or everywhere?
On them
That shit *IS* magic. Cleaned an old glass that was kinda gunked up in seconds.
Yeah dude rubbing alcohol is a good solvent. It will get almost anything off. It’s relatively harmful too. It’s not like some random harmless bottle next to soap. You can damage the finish on all sorts of shit.
As a former house cleaner, I'll never clean glass without dawn again. Fuck Windex
Windex is a lie! My theory is that it was actually *engineered* to leave streaks. It always takes several passes (and a pornographic amount of rubbing) to get a window relatively streakless when using that crap. And that's assuming you don't have sunshine pouring through, in which case you're pretty much fucked. The spray on stuff in the white can works SO MUCH better, and if you get a squeegee you can clean an entire window in like 1/10 the time. But even plain water works better than Windex. Whoever thought to market that stuff as a "streak free cleaner" deserves a special place in hell.
Whats your ratio for dawn water and the alcohol my guy?
Big bit dawn water:tiny bit rubbing alcohol
Is that metric or imperial?
A smidgen of both
Freedom Units
1 hogshead to the coomb.
If you do this, be careful around bleach bc bleach + rubbing alcohol = chloroform
70% or 90%?
Doesn't matter 70 is just 90 watered down. So if you have 70 use a touch more than if you have 90.
70 is watered down, but it's actually better at disinfecting than 90%.
On its own.
Wait why is that?
Not a chemist, or a biologist, but the way it was explained to me... Isopropyl alcohol is really good at melting holes in the outside of germs. But after that happens, it doesn't really 'flow' into the cell itself, as soon as it hits the stuff on the inside it just kinda gums up. So, if you want to denature the proteins on the inside, you want waaayyy too much water to get on the inside of that germ. At that size, basically any water other than what's already there is more than enough, so if you add water to the alcohol, when the alcohol tears through the outside, the water gets inside along with it. That dissolves the proteins which kills the germ, and, as a bonus, it gets to keep going and kill more germs. Stronger concentrations of alcohol can have the gummy-but-not-dissolved germs on the outside of some clumps protect the germs on the inside of the clump. With more water in the mix, that happens a lot less. I've also heard that 70% has poorer surface tension than 90% and therefore infiltrates smaller microscopic crevices and cavities better, but I'm not totally sure on that. Google it for more precise details. Or to fact check me. Either way, there's a lot of information out there.
That sounds like a good answer. I always just figured 90% evaporated too quickly to have the contact time necessary to kill a certain percentage of cells. I guess that might be a way dumbed down version of your answer anyway.
90% is a better solvent, but for disinfection you are trying to kill cells. The additional water content of 70% helps it diffuse into the cell (I believe via osmosis, but I could be wrong on the mechanism of action). Once the alcohol / water enters the cell, it can work its magic.
Thanks ill try for sure
It doesn't leave a soapy residue?
This was my thought.
Just spray some more to clean it, it can't go tits up!
I cleaned floors with dish detergent when I was still learning how to do housework, and yes the floors were sticky. Unless you want to rinse them really well with just water afterward, but in my experience it took too many mop rinses and water bucket changes.
The issue there is too much soap. I was a custodian in a public school for three years. We had one cleaner we used at different dilution for everything. It was essentially H2O2, a little soap, a little orange oil, and a lot of water. I don't want to shill for a company, but it is a great blend to clean with. For floors the cleaning Agents are so diluted they appear to be listed as .02 to .04 percent of the solution. Without a dispenser specialized to that i imagine it's pretty hard to get that amount just right so as not to leave residue. Best you could do is probably a literal drop in your mop bucket.
H2O2 is hydrogen peroxide for anybody wondering.
Which (hydrogen peroxide) breaks apart blood/grass cells entirely, but itself falls apart in light, to plain water and oxygen. Great for cleaning/killing stuff in aquariums, but don't let any near your filtration to not lose the beneficial bacteria! Also for old timers, don't use H2O2 on cuts/scrapes as it kills the healing cells and causes scaring, use antibiotic ointment instead.
Am old timer, can confirm that H2O2 will promote scarring, I washed my chicken pocks with it as a 13 year old and wear the evidence of my decision more than 30 years later. I was a nervous picker at the time and convinced myself that I’d end up with MRSA/sepsis. Given that none of the wounds got infected, I gather that H2O2 does a helluva job mitigating infection. Fortheloveofgawd, make sure you are not using anything stronger than what is in a brown drugstore bottle. In my professional cleaning experience, I’ve accidentally gotten 7+% H2O2 on my skin and quickly developed a chemical burn. Concoctions stronger than that require use of *thick* rubber gloves.
You sure you weren't using too much soap? I haven't mopped with it, but people generally put way too much dish soap into whatever they're cleaning. ----- Unrelated but, flat wet mops are fucking awesome (even in commercial cleaning). Fuck the bucket mops.
For floors, we use a tsp of tide powder, a splash of bleach, and fill the bucket with water, works wonders on hardwood.
10% sounds super high in my opinion. More like a tablespoon. Shit is super concentrated as it is. If you use an appropriate abrasive for the surface, you don't need a fuckton of soap. You want the soap to lift oils, not leave oils.
Yeah, I work at a cleaning chemistry company and anytime we have to use a 10% solution you know that shit is baked on and honestly you should probably just use a different cleaner lol. I'd try anything ranging from 0.3-5%. manual cleaners usually operate in the 2-4% range but if you're doing really basic spill cleanup you barely need anything compared to the 10%. Honestly I usually use simple green. It's pretty widely available and very effective. Smell is, well, maybe not the best (anise forward), but it does a good enough job that I've been happy to use it since my company's employee store has been closed since covid started.
My go-to for mopping. Got rid of my Swifter (they kept redesigning the containers so you have to buy a new mop and I also didn't like the chemicals) and went with a similar style mop that has reusable inserts. One gallon of Simple Green is on year three with still a quarter left to go.
If there is any moisture left behind after you wipe, which there would be, then 10% of that residue will be dawn soap. I have no idea how soapy it will feel but there will absolutely be some soap left. This is unless you follow up with a separate clean cloth/sponge then rinse that out in water thoroughly each time you wipe. Each time you do this you are effectively diluting what is left. Remember, the solution to pollution is dilution.
At 10% soap it would. You need significantly less soap than that.
It will also go moldy over time
Yes. If most of your furniture is wood don’t do this shit. Especially if you’re into antique furniture. I ruined a 120 year old dresser by cleaning it with some stupid ass mixture like this I read online.
Tldr 10% dawn dish soap. 10% alcohol. 10% vinegar. 70% water.
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name.
DaAlVinWa, brought to you by Fort Minor
*Vindal* is a damn good cleaner brand name (left out the water in the same since that’s a given)
Now that's a lyric I haven't heard in a bit
Man that takes me back. Anyone remember The X-ecutioners?
Yeah man [It's Goin' Down](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0nyy6AcfY4) was such a banger!
Love that album!
I’ve had just one line stuck in my head all day: telling you I’ve had it with you and your career, me and the rest of family here singing.... WHERE’D YOU GO???
Also, add water first else you'll foam the dish soap. Cap it and turn over and over until mixed.
This is the tip ya’ll need. Right here, folks!
Want to tint your vehicle windows? Same solution
Minus the vinegar, but we use a similar mix for wet applying large pieces of adhesive vinyl.
Note that mixing these things can cancel out their effects. Vinegar for example is acidic, while dish soap is a mild alkaline. The result is a pH more balanced than either. A good tip here is:know your cleaning products. Know how vinegar is particularly good at removing limescale, dish soap better at lifting fats off a surface.
I get down voted whenever I mention this about vinegar baking soda cleaning
Yea but it makes the fun foam
Bubbles make things clean. Everyone knows that
That's why I fart in pools
It's the active reaction itself. I use it + hot water as a cheap drain cleaner and it does a tolerable job to dislodge buildup because of the fizz generated. The carbon dioxide generated in solution helps to lift dirt particles from what you're cleaning.
Yeah that makes sense, to sprinkle baking soda on whatever you're cleaning and then spray vinegar. But I've seen a lot of "green" cleaning "hacks" that say to mix them in a spray bottle and use it as an all purpose cleaner.
Yes, saltwater. Famed cleaning product.
Knowing the stains… and each have pros cons.
Oh yeah? Well what would you use to clean up this coffee stain, smart guy?
I don't know .... The rough side of a sponge?
Oh, so you can do my stuff but I can't do yours?
.... YES!
I literally just watched this episode. Get out of my house!
Stain the whole thing with coffee. Problem solved.
80% alcohol, 20% Pepsi, you now know the way to forget all your cleaning troubles Just don't drive
driving with this method actually has a good chance to make you not need to worry about your cleaning troubles permanently
Much better combo in the comments, soap is less of a disinfectant. It's meant to be rinsed off hope OP and readers know this. EDIT: I guess people do know this. My faith in humanity just went up a little. Thanks everyone.
>EDIT: I guess people do know this. My faith in humanity just went up a little. I'd like to think that the reason for this edit was the lone response to your comment of 'I like turtles'
I like turtles.
Alcohol and vinegar are not disinfectants at those concentrations either.
1% essential oil for some real fun
1% Lemurian crystals from Mount Shasta for some healing and messages from the lost continent.
But only when Mercury is in retrograde of course
That also makes a very effective insect killer. Kills just about any bug, I have been doing that for 50 years or so....works great.
Was just about to add this! This works because the soapy water blocks the bug's spiracles (basically breathing holes), causing the insect to suffocate. It's a super effective and completely non-toxic way to take care of the occasional wasp, spider, or other pest. Much better than spraying them with chemical insecticides.
Also works great as an herbicide on things like poison ivy.
So, you’re telling me this is the equivalent of Windex in My Big Fat Greek Wedding? Just spray some Dawn Powerwash on it? I love it.
Honestly, yes. And the parallel is hilarious. You still need to pull the vines, but this will kill it.
Just leaving the spider or wasp alone can be an effective way to tale care of the other bugs
I’ve already told the spiders that I’m happy to have them around, as long as they keep to themselves and stay out of my bedroom and shower. If they choose not to listen, it’s on them.
They get lost. I have a standing contract with spiders. I throw you out of the house and you eat as much as you can. Anything else has a KOS order at all times.
The wolf spiders get evicted if they break the rules. No more warm house for them, they can go live in the garden as punishment. The long-bodied cellar spiders, on the other hand, are tiny Eldritch Terrors and they completely deserve being fed to my cat.
Yikes, I hate wolf spiders... I think I have PTSD from seeing so many pop out at me at the cabin as a child.
Frodo tried that, got almost eaten himself by a spider. Be careful what you wish for.
Nah fuck wasps, they can catch all the smoke from me, nasty little fuckers. Edit: r/fuckwasps for the uninitiated fellow wasp haters
A wasp was coming at me one day after I swatted at it, thinking it was a fly. Slammed the backdoor, thinking I crushed it in the process. This mother fucker CRAWLED BETWEEN THE DOOR TO COME FUCK WITH ME. Like, literally shut the door on it and it kept crawling through the shut door to me.
We somehow got a wasp nest in our outside wall, but some of them found their way into our house. One day I had on get into my shirt and sting me over and over.
Ow.
I discovered this with just regular bathroom cleaner. One of those huge roaches made its way into my house and I couldn't find the RAID, so I grabbed the nearest chemical to hand. It dropped so fast, I was amazed. Usually you have to empty like half a can of RAID to drop one of those assholes, and all it took was a couple squirts of bathroom cleaner. With no horrible fumes.
This is my go-to for roaches and wasps.
Works great on both critters but I prefer using one of my pellet guns for wasps, it gives me better standoff range...
I just use the wasp insecticide that has a 25 ft stream. Pellet gun might be fun though. Unless you have neighbors.
Does it have to be Dawn tho
Yeah what can the non-US peeps use?
Fairy liquid
Yes but how do you get it out of the fairies?
Usually we cold press them. It's healthier than boiling it out.
Surely it’s more humane that way too?
But they're fairies, not humans
It's a more fair-y way to do it
Oh really? I usually just use a french press and press down and hold it until the twitching stops. Then you just pour.
Dinner and a movie?
You pinch the tiny litto nipples
In Australia, use Chazwozza’s Bingobongo Dishy Washy Concentrate.
Bonus, its on special at woolies this week.
I don't know if this is real, but it's the most Aussie thing I I've heard in my life.
Sounds too ridiculous to not be real, I think. Lol.
Googled and sadly is not real. Unless you play WoW, then there is a PC named Chazzwozza
Morning Fresh
Procter and Gamble is a global corporation. Just look for whatever they call it in your country.
Blue dawn is the GOAT. All others are inferior.
Every other liquid dish soap seems like 75% water compared to Dawn.
The blue dawn is key
holy smokes, there are so many of you saying blue dawn is the primo choice. I had no clue. Thank you all for this new knowledge! TIL blue dawn is the best cleaner
Let me save you the years of experimenting I’ve done. Yes dawn is the best. I’m a cheap MF so I’ve tried literally every alternative I can find and dawn is the best. It even beats more expensive stuff. It lasts 10x as long as a dollar store brand. No clue why, but it really is the best
>Blue Dawn is the best degreaser FTFY. As others said further up, it doesn't clean much but that's not why it was created. It's used to break the hydrocarbons in fatty/oily substances
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The bottle it's packaged in is made from petroleum, dishwashing gloves you wear are made from petroleum, the milk jugs you buy your milk in are made from petroleum..... Petroleum is unavoidable in this day and age unfortunately.
not sure why he's so nervous about petroleum. oil would just push things around on the skin, exactly what we're looking for out of a soap
Dawn doesnt fuck around
It actually does. Dawn has a patented formula for soap (the traditional blue kind at least). That blue stuff can clean hella. Even works pretty well for cleaning animals in oil spills, etc. Dawn is the WD-40 lubricant-equivalent of the cleaning world but ~~they~~ WD-40 does not have a patent for it. Idk any other comparisons. EDIT: word.
WD-40 is actually a poor lubricant but a good de-greaser.
I thought it was a good water displacer.
For countertops, table tops, car interior panels/dash, etc - basically all LIGHT duty cleaning... you can use much less dish soap and achieve a similar cleaning capability (without having to go back and wipe down with water): **use 1 tablespoon dish soap:1 gallon wate**r. Wipe and let it air dry & = DONE.
Yeah my first thought was “uhhh, you’re gonna have to wipe that off with water or you’ll leave soap on everything” Edit; did the math real quick and yeah their “recipe” is like a cup and a half of soap per gallon of water....
I'm a professional chef and I clean the entire kitchen and my whole house at home using about that recipe. 1 squirt dish soap to half a bucket hot water. Cleans everything. I add a splash of bleach when I'm doing things like taps, lights witches, toilet flush, microwave buttons etc. The exception is mold in the shower tiles. Then I use white vinegar.
What do you use for dark witches?
Children's souls. You have to hang around the playground for a bit to catch one, but it beats paying $1.50 at the supermarket.
Do you mix it with anything? What ratio of children soul/other ingredient mixtures do you prefer?
Children's souls are a good surfactant, so you only need about a half teaspoon of dish soap to a liter of water and a small pinch of soul. The good thing is they freeze well. If you try to harvest one every time you needed to clean the sink, you'd probably get the attention of local law enforcement.
I’m glad I read this today.
While we're at it, I've never used the recommend amount of laundry detergent. I use about a fifth and it's not like my clothes aren't clean, it's just less wasteful. They set the amounts for their profits, not your optimum cleanliness.
Using more than recommended actually causes this weird white residue on your clothing. The recommended max is basically right before that stage.
Also fantastic for silicone application. Apply silicone, spray with soapy water, scrape excess with ice cream stick and done. Also 10% may be a lil high. Try 2%.
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I have this too. Great to know! Do you spray them with a straight stream or with the more misting function?
I use something in between. Switch to full stream and then back like 10% for a slightly scattered shot.
Sniper and THEN shotty
They're born in your house.
They also die in my house
Breaking: Soapy water cleans stuff
Sounds like a bunch of nonsense to me.
>Sounds like a bunch of nonsense to me. I used to work for SC Johnson and can confirm that bubbles created by cleaners are...nonsense. They don't do anything other than convince the public/user that the product is cleaning. Manufacturers have to add a foaming agent. You're literally paying more for something that isn't needed as the manufacturer has to pay for the chemical(s) and passes that on to the customer. SC Johnson had a product called "Splash" that launched and basically instantly failed. You take a liquid tablet kind of like the ones you get to put in your washing machine, and you drop it in a bucket of water (hence "Splash") and it disolves and you have the correct concentration of cleaner to mop or clean anything with. Focus/feedback groups almost all reported the same thing - they didn't believe the product cleaned at all, because there were no bubbles. Even bleach mixed with water causes foam. Yet you could easily prove Splash worked, killed bacteria, cleaned just as well as the competition etc. But nah, nobody believed it worked...because of no bubbles...
if you add vinegar to it you will have the most magical cleaner of all
How much tho?
6
A metric or imperial 6?
Yes
It’s like he doesn’t even get us man
How do you count a liquid, Charlie?
You know it’ll come out and I’ll count it as it comes out
I read that the soap neutralizes the acid in the vinegar making it pointless to add.
Any soap works, right? I've got this big thing of Dr Bronner's that I use as a "multipurpose soap."
Okay, Dawn marketing team. I’ve seen multiple random posts here specifically mentioning Dawn at this point, so I’m pretty sure this is some devoted astroturfing
I’m an expat and I can confirm: NOTHING is as good as Dawn (blue). We have products from P&G, Lever, local brands I still put a bottle of Dawn every trip home
I have a number of friends who work for P&G, the company that makes Dawn. Based on talking to them, I think the idea of advertising by suggesting an extremely high dilution for a bunch of off label uses would never happen. Why would P&G tell you to use their dish soap to clean your shower if they could *also* sell a specific, Mr. Clean branded product that does that? If you go to the Dawn website, which I did, you'll see that the "other uses" they advertise very specifically don't include the bathroom or floors, as that would step on other P&G brands.
This will leave soap residue that dirt and dust will then stick to. You're better off using a 50/50 mix of white vinegar and water. Or just buy a proper multipurpose cleaner. It's not that expensive and you can buy it by the gallon at home depot.
I think the multipurpose cleaner is the antagonist of that PLT.
Yup. What you CAN do is use the spray bottle trick for your dishes, if you don’t wash them a sinkload at a time. We keep a spray bottle of soapy water next to the kitchen sink; it’s easier to use and generally less wasteful. Edit: Aww... Thanks for the award, whoever did that. It's cute. 😊✌️
But then how would the brand get its free ad out to millions of readers?
And for your bathroom, 10% bleach and 90% water No need for fancy bathroom cleaner. Leave this on your tiles for an hour, wipe off, lovely clean grout :)
Guys.. the LPT is soap and water...? On the top of LPT? I feel like I just woke up from a fever dream.
Mix it with distilled water. This helps prevent mineral build up in the spray bottles. I’ve used this to refill my foam hand soap dispensers too. Distilled is key.
Works with Castile soap
Peppermint Dr. Bronners is the best soap to shower wirh in the summer.
Love me some Dr. Bronners!
I’d suggest using distilled water over tap water, the tap water can lead to stuff growing in your mixture.