Go to Home Depot or Lowes or a paint store. Buy a 4 pound box of TSP. Put a teaspoon in with your powdered dish detergent.
Problem gone.
Buy plenty. The *Green Loonies* will go bat shit crazy when they figure out you can put the phosphates back into the detergent.
I could never get the soap scum film off my bathroom shower curtain by washing. Added TSP to the load and the darn thing looks brand new.
I’ve never had a problem with the film, but I put distilled white vinegar in the rinse agent dispenser instead of the expensive rinse agents.
"In half"?????
Why not just eliminate the department? Every state now has an EPA, so there's no need to run this unconstitutional bureau any more.
Just where in our Constitution does it say anything about dish washing liquid? When will this insanity stop?
I guess it pays to listen to my wife, this is the stuff she insists we buy, I'd go for the cheap stuff but I gotta admit, she knows what she is doing. Now I gotta go tell her about it.
I switched to Cascade with grease fighting power of Dawn action pacs.
This product doesn’t leave any film. Purchased at Walmart.
A poster recommended purchasing the commercial version of dishwashing products.
I got my wife a box of commercial Cascade from the GFS, and she immediately noticed a marked improvement.
I have also been told that the critters in our septic like phosphates!
I can’t believe it - actually I can. Thank you EPA for my dirty looking supposedly clean dishes. I have had the white film for close to a year. It gets so thick after a number of cycles that I have to scrub it off with a scotchbrite pad. I thought our dishwasher was going bad - now I know it is not.
Shut down the EPA.
I’ve been using Lemi Shine for months. It’s the only thing that cleans my dishes. But now that it’s getting all this press, I’m afraid the EPA will find a reason to ban it, too.
i used cascade for years, then all of a sudden i got this white film, changed to finish and the dishes sparkle...don’t know what the difference is, but there is a big one
Sodium Hexametaphosphate solves that problem
http://www.needs.com/product/Miracle_Cleaner_Miracle_Cleaner_5/d_Laundry_Booters
By the way, this problem affects your laundry detergents as well as dishwasher detergents. Much of it is now worthless for cleaning thanks to this stupid and completely unnecessary law. America is dirtier and less happy as a result.
Dept. of Edu., Dept of Energy, EPA, Dept. of Funny Walks (thanks Monty Python), these are all the result of Republicans trying to buy DemocRat votes. How’s that working out for you now you bunch of knuckle dragging Neanderthals affectionately known as the elitist Republican establishment? So smart, they just plain stupid.
The new rules don’t apply to commercial products. I bought cascade with phosphates like the good old days from restockit.com. Bought 4 large boxes that should last a year.
The EPA hasn’t banned phosphate. What they have done is to tell water treatment facilities they could no longer discharge water with a phosphate concentration over a certain level. Phosphate bans have come from states who are unwilling or inable to modify their treatment facilities to meet the federal disharge standards. High phosphate concentrations and the eutrophication that is a result are very damaging to water quality (for human and agriclultural use) and to fresh and salt water fisheries.
A teaspoon of TSP per dish load will take care of that problem.
They’re also the reason that Consumer Reports doesn’t bother with top-loading washing machines any more: the swatches they wash come out as dirty as they go in. Thanks to regulations, washing machines don’t actually clean anything.
NO!!! Do NOT use "Lemi Shine!
It's great for glassware, but if you have anything with a ceramic print, it will RUIN it! It says so right on the label, and they aren't kidding! I had coffee cups with pictures and logos on them, and now they are all plain white after only one wash with that vile substance!!!
I found a better solution, undoubtedly already referred to in this thread: Get some TSP (the real stuff, not a substitute!) from the paint department at the hardware store and add a half-teaspoon to the soap. It will replace the phosphates they took out of the detergent. Buy pounds of the stuff before they outlaw it. Don't bother looking for it at Lowes or Wal-Mart.
Use your regular brand and add a shot glass of white vinegar to the wash cycle, works well, and move regular glasses to bottom shelf too if they are glass. Hand wash you fine crystal.
Hurrah and three cheers for phosphate.
As gray water is allowed for yard irrigation here in AZ, all washer water goes into a 55 gallon plastic drum, then distributed via hoses for vegetation.
Wife seeks out the cheaper phosphate based detergents made in Mexico as the phosphate works great for fertilizing.
Also as we have used only two super efficient roof mounted evaporative coolers for the last 20 years, (no AC) the resulting evaporation of water made calcium carbonate mineral deposits onto cooler wetted metal surfaces and the paper cooling medium a big problem.
Although have timed pumps that empties the cooler reservoirs every 8 hours of operation, the mineral deposits remained a problem. Until got some water supply inline scale eliminator phosphate filled cartridges which have virtually eliminated the problem as the phosphate insures the mineral deposits remain in suspension until reservoir water is periodically pumped out.
I was told to put 1/2 cup white vinegar and 1/2 cup water in a cup in the back, lower corner of my d/w. The glasses are beautiful. Cuts the soap film. I was about to tear my hair.