Get some LemiShine.
Posted on 04/29/2010 4:00:58 PM PDT by Stayfree
My wife has discovered that P&G's Cascade started reformulating in March. And as your chief cook and bottle-washer will soon discover, it is not the dishwasher that is leaving a white residue on all the glassware, it is the lack of phosphates in your favorite dishsoap.
I just checked my dishwasher soap, Finish.
It still lists the phosphates, 8.7% by weight, 1.8 grams per tablet.
I hate Cascade.
I just checked my cupboard and I have three boxes of the highly rated Walmart Great Value Dishwashing Detergent. The almost empty box contains phosphorus. The two smaller boxes contain no phosphates.
The box with phosphates says the phosphorus content is 6%.
You could do the math and know how much tri sodium phosphate to add to a non phosphate product.
Your urine. Phosphate's recyclable, but a little complicated and messy...
Really? I wonder why all the commotion about the phosphate mines out by Soda Springs, ID or immediately west of Pocatello, ID. Both sites feed the "Don Plant" of Simplot fertilizer manufacturing in Pocatello.
Of course, I am in favor of phosphate use for fertilizers, especially as fertilizers are of increasing importance, worldwide, daily. In the end, one cannot eat soap.
I suppose really small children and media reporters and newsreaders will buy that Bullshit*, but most educated adults cannot.
Phosphorus is not one of the radioactive elements, so it can't "disappear" or change into another one.
Unless, somehow, all phosphorus is being shot into space after use, I don't see how the world can possible "run out."
Just saying.
Phosphorus is NOT the problem. Phosphorus as phosphate is the problem. Phosphate has to be mined, it cannot be produced in a cost effective manner....and, so our supply of PHOSPHATES is of critical importance, and it appears to be limited, more so than affordable oil.
I stocked up at the Kennewick Costco last fall but am down to one bottle now.
Might be true in some areas of the country but at our Costco they told me I got some of the last pallet last fall.
I believe Mosaic and Intrepid mine there.
Then there is the huge POT in Saskatchewan, and many others in Canada.
There are even junior miners just getting started.
Ironic isn’t it. We will be treated like prisoners while illegal aliens stream across our borders and get free healthcare and other perks. The world is upside down and we have entered into the bizarro world.
Thank you very much.
Everything in the dishwasher had white residue all over it.”
IF everything in the dishwasher had a residue- what will prevent this same residue from forming inside all your pipes taking water out of your house??
Thanks, the more the better. What has not been explained is the regulatory reason/reasons the phosphates are being withheld from detergents. That would be worthwhile to know also.
OK, I just bought some TSP and some Spic n’ Span. The hardware guy found it for me while others waited in line, so I just got it. I read the label on the S’n’S when I got home — “New formula! No phosphates!”
Just fyi. It gave me pleasure to get them, tho — the way it does to ask for ‘plastic, please’ at the market.
Add white vinegar to the rinse cycle.
Heads up to buy some every week.
purchase ping
I actually put the white vinegar in the rinse container.
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