What do you do if you’ve been so busy preparing your new house that you’ve run out of liquid dishsoap and have a sink full of dishes?
Use shampoo of course!
For the most part soap is soap. This is why I use bubblebath as liquid hand soap, and in a pinch can use shampoo as dishsoap.
Now, of course you wouldn’t want to wash your dishes in a soap that is a 2-1 shampoo or conditioner formula (I don’t know about you, but my dishes don’t need to be conditioned), dandruff shampoo (ick-medication on your food?) or any specialty shampoo-such as those with extra chemicals in them to protect colored hair or perms.
Would I want to use shampoo every day? No. But it works in a pinch and saves me the gas money ($3.15 a gallon yesterday) and time running out to the store.
I agree soap is soap, most of the time. I’d use shampoo on my dishes. But just a warning. I had an empty dial liquid soap pump that I loved because it had a flower that matched my shower curtain. I put shower gel in it that contained moisturizers. Dove or something like that. It left a white streaked film inside that I could never get off. It showed when I used clear soap. I used it streaky looking for years. Then my husband commented about how dirty it looked when we had our house up for sale. I got it at Big Lots and never saw another one with that flower on it. sniff sniff. Cleaned our hands though.
Good ideas same ingriedients right?? Annette
I can’t remember if it was here or another frugal blog where I saw a few days ago about using bubble bath as hand soap. I hit myself thinking well duh – it’s all soap!! The very next day the pump in the bathroom was empty and I didn’t feel like driving across town for a bottle of soap, so I got into my box of “don’t throw it out it’s good for something” soaps, and there was a nice smelling Bath & Body Works bubble bath my daughter didn’t like. It was quickly put in the soap pump and husband never knew the difference. I didn’t even have to add water, as it was the same consistency!