Soap consinst of molecules that have two distinct ends. One loves to bond with water, the other side is repelled by water but attracked to fatty stuff like grease.
This way the soap can basically connect fatty stuff on one end and to water on the other end, which allows to wash away the fatty stuff with water (where usually water would be repelled by fats and oils).
Since your skin itself is neither made of water nor fat, it’s mostly unaffected.
I have eczema and dish soap wrecks my hands. Granted, all soap makes them scaly but dish soap is worse. Lots of moisturizing and sometimes steroids are the only thing that helps.
Not to my knowledge. You want a highly concentrated soap for dishes so you can get rid of the tough grime. I usually wear gloves when I do dishes and in the event I don’t wear them I’m drying them really well then putting cerave on my hands.
Soaking dishes in a tub of water with some soap will do more than anything to help make the dishes easier to clean.
Except a dishwasher - we have a dishwasher now and you can literally put dirty dishes in and get clean ones out and it uses less power than heating water to wash by hand, uses less water than hand washing dishes too.
But when I had to wash by hand - filling the sink with hot soapy water then just dumping all the dishes in during the day, washing in the evening, was the least effort, best result and really the least water since you can rinse them all at once.
Besides just quickly cleaning up like right after, right? That is something I’ve had to learn the hard way and really drill in as the only accetable practice for moi
Ah, but it has a genius removable filter and I keep an eye on that. It’s not even hard to take out or clean, sort of gross but not terrible. Really well designed machine. I do scrape them but don’t rinse much - new dishwashers keep going until the water is clean, so it rinses everything better if you put them in dirty. Literally says to in the instructions, I love it.
Soap consinst of molecules that have two distinct ends. One loves to bond with water, the other side is repelled by water but attracked to fatty stuff like grease.
This way the soap can basically connect fatty stuff on one end and to water on the other end, which allows to wash away the fatty stuff with water (where usually water would be repelled by fats and oils).
Since your skin itself is neither made of water nor fat, it’s mostly unaffected.
Thanks for that, is dishsoap still unwise or less preferable to use than regular handsoap?
I have eczema and dish soap wrecks my hands. Granted, all soap makes them scaly but dish soap is worse. Lots of moisturizing and sometimes steroids are the only thing that helps.
Is there, like, Baby dishsoap, lol?
Not to my knowledge. You want a highly concentrated soap for dishes so you can get rid of the tough grime. I usually wear gloves when I do dishes and in the event I don’t wear them I’m drying them really well then putting cerave on my hands.
I don’t mind scrubbing a bit harder if its a littles less efficacious in exchange for softer ingredients
Soaking dishes in a tub of water with some soap will do more than anything to help make the dishes easier to clean.
Except a dishwasher - we have a dishwasher now and you can literally put dirty dishes in and get clean ones out and it uses less power than heating water to wash by hand, uses less water than hand washing dishes too.
But when I had to wash by hand - filling the sink with hot soapy water then just dumping all the dishes in during the day, washing in the evening, was the least effort, best result and really the least water since you can rinse them all at once.
Besides just quickly cleaning up like right after, right? That is something I’ve had to learn the hard way and really drill in as the only accetable practice for moi
But if you do that, you’ll eventually have to clean rotting food out of the trap. Trust me that this is not a job you want.
Ah, but it has a genius removable filter and I keep an eye on that. It’s not even hard to take out or clean, sort of gross but not terrible. Really well designed machine. I do scrape them but don’t rinse much - new dishwashers keep going until the water is clean, so it rinses everything better if you put them in dirty. Literally says to in the instructions, I love it.
Fantastic idea! Make those layabout toddlers earn their keep, and your hands stay soft. Win-win!
Actually yeah. Kids ambitions to help out at that age seem to only be bound at the upper limit by their physical capabillity.
Have you tried like a baby shampoo or baby bubble bath maybe? Or even dove bars for sensitive skin?
I don’t think it makes much of a difference, I use it all the time to wash my hands. Then again, I don’t have sensitive skin, so I wouldn’t know.