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08-19-2019, 07:24 AM | #1 |
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Is Dawn Soap really so good that it cleans about
anything and everything?
I wonder? what about othere soaps ,,are they mssing that ingredient that Dawn has to make is so good it cleans everthing ? I used it to clean up oil from the pavement out front of our house next to the sidewalk where the wifes brothers truck leaked it every time he came to visit .. After many times lathering the big ol spot ,,it finally started looking like I was winning the battle ..but what really worked the best was let time go by and it now looks pretty good ..
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08-19-2019, 07:42 AM | #2 |
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Re: Is Dawn Soap really so good that it cleans about
They use Dawn to clean oil off of sea birds after an oil spill so that makes it a winner for me .
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08-19-2019, 08:45 AM | #3 |
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Re: Is Dawn Soap really so good that it cleans about
I wouldn't say it cleans everything but it does work really good.
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08-19-2019, 08:52 AM | #4 |
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Re: Is Dawn Soap really so good that it cleans about
I wonder about this also. But Dawn has been my go-yo dish soap for years. I keep it at my utility sink along with Fast Orange. I don't even use the Fast Orange anymore for oily greasy hands. Dawn works way better. I keep a little bottle of it with my house paint supplies to wash brushes. I have a thing about taking care of good brushes and how many years I've kept them nice... like 15-20 years. Dawn makes that easy. What's great is for as good as it cleans it's known for being a mild soap as far as hands go. That's why it keeps my brush bristles subtle. And why it's safe to use on about anything that can get wet
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Re: Is Dawn Soap really so good that it cleans about
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My question is more to the point of thinking maybe that other soaps clean just as good.. I have used other soaps before to wash my rubber floor mats and I did not see any difference.. and you are right Dawn would of done just as good had I had any at the time. I have a neighbor up the street that really really likes Dawn detergent, he is the one that told me to use it for the grease spot on the street ,,but afterwards he says he has stocks in the company.. I laughed when he told me that..
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08-19-2019, 10:11 AM | #6 |
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Re: Is Dawn Soap really so good that it cleans about
I use Purple Power for tougher and Lestoil or Pinesol for the toughest stuff. Then it's lacquer thinner. I don't know why Dawn got to be "the name". I'm sure other dish soaps can do just as well. I just chose Dawn probably because I had a nice girlfriend named Dawn and liked the blue color (never tried the other colors... gimmick I figure). But after using it for other things I was really sold and when I like a product I see no need to keep shopping around. I reward them with my continued business
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08-19-2019, 10:48 AM | #7 |
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Re: Is Dawn Soap really so good that it cleans about
Dawn works as good as any liquid dish washing soap I’ve ever used. Recently i bought a blueish off brand and it will hardly even make foam. Useless. Tossed it.
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08-19-2019, 10:50 AM | #8 |
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Re: Is Dawn Soap really so good that it cleans about
I've found brake cleaner works really well for cleaning up oil spots. Hopefully doesn't ruin concrete, I've used it in the garage and on the driveway a lot the last 20yrs and haven't seen degradation. Never found anything that 100% gets rid of it but it's helped to fade oil spots significantly.
I'd always heard the "green" dawn has some magical cleaning properties to it, people swear by it. I didn't see anything special about it.
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08-19-2019, 01:02 PM | #9 |
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Re: Is Dawn Soap really so good that it cleans about
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Dawn is our goto as well around here. But...there's another player... Greased Lightening. This stuff is an excellent cleaner too and can get oil stains up off the driveway as well as go into the laundry. That's right. -klb
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08-19-2019, 01:19 PM | #10 |
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Re: Is Dawn Soap really so good that it cleans about
I'll tell you another thing Dawn is good for: I keep a one gallon pump up sprayer with a Dawn/water solution in it for killing wasps around the house and pool. After getting myself into trouble killing wasps with some carb cleaner that happened to be in a nice boxwood in our landscaping I went looking for an alternative other than the expensive cans of wasp spray.
It will knock them down quick and they are dead within a minute of it hitting them. And you can still use it to clean up your other greasy stuff and have it premixed! |
08-19-2019, 01:22 PM | #11 |
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Re: Is Dawn Soap really so good that it cleans about
Powdered Tide is really good at cleaning oil spots. But one of the most successful things I've used is just water in a pressure washer.
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08-19-2019, 01:31 PM | #12 |
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Re: Is Dawn Soap really so good that it cleans about
NASA has a cleaning spec for flight-hardware that is written around both the original blue Dawn detergent as well as lemon-fresh Joy detergent.
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08-19-2019, 02:56 PM | #13 |
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Re: Is Dawn Soap really so good that it cleans about
Well it's not working for me.....I set a bottle of dawn in my shop and it didnt clean anything ...shops still a mess..maybe I have the wrong color...haha...
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08-19-2019, 03:26 PM | #14 |
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Re: Is Dawn Soap really so good that it cleans about
Well didja take the cap off? Doh!!
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08-19-2019, 03:27 PM | #15 |
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Re: Is Dawn Soap really so good that it cleans about
you bought blue. To get any work done you need red
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08-19-2019, 04:23 PM | #16 |
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08-19-2019, 04:28 PM | #17 |
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Re: Is Dawn Soap really so good that it cleans about
The only thing I would not recommend using Dawn for is a replacement for the dishwasher soap. Don't ask.....
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08-19-2019, 04:51 PM | #18 |
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Re: Is Dawn Soap really so good that it cleans about
Ha! My youngest son did that once!
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08-19-2019, 04:56 PM | #19 |
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It was almost as bad as my son microwaving one of those cup of soup deals without putting water in the cup.....oh man... i can still smell it. At least with the dawn in the dishwasher the entire kitchen and part of the living room was clean... work free... kinda
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Re: Is Dawn Soap really so good that it cleans about
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That stuff works! But the one thing I'll tell/warn you, and I would love to know why this happens, but ... I used it to clean a plastic bin, bare-handed. sprayed it in, rubbed it around, I didn't read anything warning not to touch it. That stuff made my hands smooth and shiny, almost like they were coated with Elmer's glue. Very weird.
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08-19-2019, 09:14 PM | #21 |
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Re: Is Dawn Soap really so good that it cleans about
for oil stains on concrete i found a u tube vid using kitty litter and a brick and grind it into the oil stain.I s working on my 20 yr. oil stain but I will try some Dawn and see if it works better with the grinding of litter and a brick
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08-19-2019, 09:48 PM | #22 |
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Re: Is Dawn Soap really so good that it cleans about
I don't know what kind of concrete you guys have on your driveways, but if I spill dirty engine oil (for instance) I put the oil absorbing stuff on it and then sweep it up after it soaks awhile. If there is still some oil there, I dump a little more absorbing stuff on and grind it to powder with my shoe and leave it for a bit. It always takes up the oil.
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I mis-spent some of my youth kicking around the oilpatch, and I ended up on a platform off Huntington Beach for a time. One morning, there was a little sheen of oil drifting away from the rig. Probably no more that a quart of oil all together, but the pusher, he was rightly freaked out about it. He got us to run a couple water cannons at it, then ran to the galley and come back with a case of Dawn. Had us run the Dawn into the streams of water. Said it was the best thing for making that oil sink and disappear, and sure enough, it did just that.
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08-19-2019, 10:28 PM | #24 |
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CG you must be one brave man.
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08-20-2019, 12:23 AM | #25 |
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maybe that's what I did wrong...
boog ,I didn't take the cap off.. 68c15,i bought the blue,,,not red and CG, I don't have no wife to hand it to..could you send your wife over here with a bottle of red dawn?
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