Clean Home Challenge | Day 9

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Day 9 | Let’s shine the sink!

• Grab your Thieves Dish Soap and scrub any dishes sitting out or piled in your sink.

• Load the dishwasher, gather cups and dishes from anywhere in the house they’ve been left out.

• Scrub your sink with your DIY Soft Scrub or Thieves Kitchen and Bath Scrub.

• Rinse sink well.

Dish Soap Disasters

We’ve already mentioned how companies greenwash their products and make us think they have natural ingredients when they still contain fragrance, dyes, triclosan or other endocrine disruptors, and synthetic ingredients. This is true for dish soap too!

Another thing to note is that alllll those bubbles in your sink aren’t actually cleaning your dishes any better. It is a trick called ‘pharmaceutical elegance’ that acts as a visual cue to your brain to make you think you’re getting a really clean sink of dishes. In reality, it doesn’t make a difference.

All you need are natural, plant-based surfactants. Surfactants (natural or synthetic) are added to soap to break down the surface tension between the water you’re using to wash and the grease or oil on your dishes. And when you switch to natural cleaning options, there are less bubbles because you’re using plant-based surfactants instead of synthetic chemicals. But the end result is the same - clean, sparkling dishes!

Does anyone else feel like it totally changes your kitchen to have a shiny, empty sink!