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Stains happen to the best of us. But with Dawn® Platinum, it's So Dawn Easy to pretreat most stains—like tomato sauce, blueberries, and grease—giving your clothes a fighting chance. 1. Apply Dawn® Platinum directly to any cotton/polycotton fabric, * covering the entire stained area, and rub it in using your fingers.
I'm quite skilled at getting things like mustard and coffee on my whitest, brightest clothing. And for years, I learned to live with faded yellow and brown spots. Turns out the solution to these stubborn stains has been right in front of my face this entire time: It's Dawn Dish Soap.
For oil based stains such as lipstick, grease, butter, motor oil, cooking oil, and some pen inks, apply some Dawn liquid directly to the stain and scrub with a small brush or toothbrush until the oil is removed. Launder as usual.
I've used it on fabrics that can't go in the washing machine, and even after a wash (and dry) doesn't work. And don't be worried about its deep blue color — the stain-fighting soap doesn't tint your clothing and can be used on whites and light colors.
Unlike detergent, which performs just fine in hard water, the combination of hard water and soap creates, as we know, soap scum. Soap scum and fabric are not a good combination. Repeated exposure to soap scum will make your clothes dingy and will also break down the fibers of your garments and other laundered items.
When used correctly, dish soap takes white clothes from stained to spotless — and makes laundry day hassle-free. Note: Do not reapply dish soap to the same spot and wash again; this causes a buildup of soap on the clothing.
“Vinegar is a good cleaner because it's acidic, but when you add dishwashing liquid/dish soap to it (which is a base or neutral) - you neutralise the vinegar. You take away the very thing that makes it work well. “The dishwashing liquid works that well on its own. Adding the vinegar is a pointless step.”
Yes, Dawn Dish Soap is toxic because it contains harmful ingredients like Triclosan, 1,4-dioxane, synthetic dye, fragrance, and the dreaded methylisothiazolinone. These ingredients can cause mild to severe health conditions like nerve and liver damage, skin irritation, and allergic reactions.
The majority of my solutions contain blue Dawn® Ultra because it's concentrated. The regular Dawn is a non-concentrated version, (also called Simply Clean) so more diluted. Platinum Dawn is almost identical to Ultra, but it contains more surfactants.
To remove a grease stain squirt some Dawn dish soap directly on the stain. I use the blue bottle of Dawn, nothing fancy just the basic type. Let the dish soap sit on the stain for a half hour or more. Wash in cold water with your laundry.
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It was essentially 2 parts hydrogen peroxide, and 1 part Dawn dish soap. Now, it can be any dish soap quite frankly, although Dawn does work really well, but so do other dish soaps. The most important thing here is that you treat the stain the way you would treat any stain.
Oily cooking splatters on your apron, greasy drips down the front of your shirt, waxy lipstick on your collar — just squirt on a little Dawn, rub it in, and let it sit overnight. Launder as usual, and the stains will disappear. It works as a pre-treatment for non-greasy food stains too.
You can also work to remove bleach stains and residue from white clothes with dish soap. You'll need a bit of Dawn and a cloth. Add 3-4 squirts of Dawn to a cup of water. Mix the two well.
Dawn said that its soap has been updated to help cut grease and other messes more “quickly and easily,” Guerin McClure, vice president of North America dish care at P&G, said in a statement.
But, put simply, there is a secret ingredient. While the complete “recipe” is inaccessible for the masses, a Dawn spokeswoman has pointed the magic to uniquely powerful surfuctants—or, the chemical compounds that reduce the surface tension of a liquid when it's dissolved, aka the stuff that cuts the grease.
Surfactants are chemical compounds known to decrease the friction between a liquid and a gas, solid, or other liquid. This is what makes scrubbing grease and caked-on food so easy to remove with Dawn dish soap.
Use Dawn and some hot water and a cloth or sponge to get into those nooks and crannies where grime and scale tend to build up. You can also combine Dawn with vinegar for stronger cleaning power, especially when tackling hard water stains.
Dawn dish soap and vinegar – Mix equal parts of vinegar and blue Dawn dish soap into a spray bottle. Run the shower for a few minutes on hot to heat up the shower space. Spray to coat the surface of the shower walls evenly with the mixture. Let sit for 5 minutes then use a damp cleaning rag to wipe away.
But when you combine the two, you get an effective, sprayable miracle cleaner that clings to surfaces. Just spray it on, let it sit for a while, then scrub lightly and rinse, and you'll be amazed at the results every time!
There are a few fool-proof treatments for stain removal: heavy-duty laundry detergent, dish soap, or a commercial stain remover. Any of these should be effective at removing most stains. For extra tough stains, rinse the garment in warm water. Otherwise, launder as usual in cold water.