One drawback of using the Internet for grocery shopping is that scented products are crapshoot. For some unknown reason, blue Dawn dish detergent has a new scent, akin to the perfumes old rich ladies love, floral with a chemical underbite, and it clings to the skin. Now I have a big bottle that is three months+ worth of the stuff and I have to try again to find non-latex dishwashing gloves because I can’t walk around smelling like this every time I wash a plate.
Had I purchased this in person in a store, I would’ve smelled it before I bought it.
And all of this is necessary because the dye-free, lower scent version of Dawn, which has a light chemical lemon scent that’s mainly inoffensive, doesn’t clean well. It takes a soup spoon of blue Dawn to wash a sink full of dishes, and twice that of the dye-free, and more on my sponge. They are definitely not the same base product with different colorings and perfumes at all.
@sollat i’ve never tried Mrs. Meyers. I went through every “free and clear“ dish liquid Icould order. Seventh Generation, Palmolive, Ivory, Dawn, and they just don’t clean well. Since I hand wash everything, don’t have a dishwasher, I actually need something that can clean my pots and my casserole dishes with baked on food.