I use Dawn advantage and it seems I need to use a gallon of it just to get thru an average load of dishes and pots so wasteful please tell me what you use TIA
i usually get what is onsale and with coupons. i usually buy gain (stuff smells great) or ultra dawn. it lasts and you dont need a ton to get your dishes clean.
Palmolive, the old green kind. It's the cheapest one at BJ's, and I can usually find a coupon for it. Well, I think Ivory is cheaper, but it leaves a residue on the dishes, no matter how much you rinse so everything tastes like soap
I use Dawn advantage and it seems I need to use a gallon of it just to get thru an average load of dishes and pots so wasteful please tell me what you use TIA
I use either store brand or Ajax brand(it's cheap). One or two squirts is enough for a whoel sinkful of dishes. You don't need tons of suds for it to work.
Just had to peak around the corner to the kitchen sink----it's Ultra Dawn--it was either 1) on sale or 2) I had a coupon. I'm not brand loyal when it comes to dish soap.
At Costco, I get the Palmolive Original green kind but I mix about 3/4 cup soap and 1/4 water to stretch it. I think the last very large bottle I had lasted me about 9 months, no joke!
I use Costco's house brand Kirkland Signature Environmentally Friendly dish soap. It comes in a gallon bottle and I'm not even halfway through it 15 months later!
For tough baked on crud, I make a paste of baking soda and water and rub it with a regular sponge. Works way better than any dish soap and it won't leave scratch marks from a scrubbie on my pots and pans. And it's super cheap.
I use Dawn also, just the regular blue stuff and a little goes a long way for me. I use those cascade tabs for the dishwasher, when there's one to use.
Hard water can also play a part in how much you need to get dishes clean.
When we lived in town, I'd go through a bottle a month of Dawn. Now that we have well water and a softener, albeit my water is still on the hard side, a snall bottle will last 6+ months.
If the OP has hard water, I can't think of anything that will really help resolve that.