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I always wondered, how safe are dish soaps? Can they replaced with something more natural, like vinegar or lemon juice? We have those around for simple househol
by a_imho 6y ago
I always wondered, how safe are dish soaps? Can they replaced with something more natural, like vinegar or lemon juice? We have those around for simple household cleaning, only bringing out sodium hypochlorite and sodium hydroxide for heavy duty cleaning.
- kortex 6y agoDepends on the "dish soap". I've seen everything from sodium fatty acetates (old fashioned lye-and-grease soap, Castille soap) to PEGylated alkanes and sodium lauryl sulfate. Vinegar and lemon juice work well on Lewis bases (amines, some proteins) and some inorganic salts, but they aren't detergents. NaOCl and NaOH are right proper cleaning agents and will saponify fats.
- EricE 6y ago"natural" is over used - arsenic is natural. If dish soap wasn't safe we would have known about it well before now.