Kirkland Ultra Dish Liquid
August 25, 2007
Hopefully this will sort out the previously mentioned issue with Joy. It’s odd buying dish detergent a gallon at a time, but at $6 or so it’s not particularly expensive, nor does the smell offend me.
At the rate I use dish detergent I’ll have this bottle when my house is paid off. (Seriously. The 64oz I emptied this year was purchased in 2001.)
Now, back to cleaning the basement.
Yeah, we use that too. Good stuff, Maynard! I don’t remember what we used before the goodness of Kirkland products though. Never used Joy before, but from the sound of it, I don’t want to.
I think most of my consumable household products are either Kirkland, some other store brand (Trader Joe’s) or something non-typical like Tom’s of Maine.
Kirkland stuff is generally pretty good. I really like the toilet paper, the paper towel, and the unscented laundry detergent.
I’ve never linked sponge smelling funk to dish soap. I just assumed water wasn’t wrung out so as it sat in the sponge it created the perfect environment for bacteria growth. Usually once a week we pop our sponge in the dishwasher, wring it out, then nuke in the microwave for a minute. Comes out fresh and no smells.
That’s a good preventative santizing. I think it’s less the smell of the soap (detergent, really) and it’s ability to kill off particular things. Maybe it’s something like the Triclosan in the new soap, or something that happened to be in the old soap, but previously I’d had no problem letting the sponge sit out until dry, for months at a time. (It’s on a vented, raised dish, and I usually wring it out before setting it down, so it’s not as if it was stewing in stagnant water…)