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Agreed, although there is an extra ingredient that can be added that will make it better. For those that aren't interested in paying less than 50¢ per refill, skip the rest and keep buying real Powerwash. I don't get it personally, because I think Dawn Powerwash is good, but way too expensive. It takes a minute to add a couple ingredients and refill the bottle with water and it will be under 50¢.I have to admit I previously made an error recommending "Super Clean" (purple) in my DIY version. It is too harsh due to sodium hydroxide (lye) and you shouldn't breathe it or get it on your skin. Mea culpa. That was dumb on my part, but I can take criticism.It got me thinking, what makes Powerwash effective? Per Powerwash's MSDS (safety info), the main active ingredient is Dipropylene Glycol Butyl Ether (DGBE). It's considered MUCH safer than other chemicals and luckily, you can find it in other heavy duty degreasers. Adding an ounce of a safer heavy duty degreaser will boost the cleaning power, and it's cheap. All I did was search for degreasers containing DGBE. Specifically, there are two, Oil Eater "CLEAR" (which I cannot find), and Oil Eater Orange https://www.amazon.com/Oil-Eater-...B000EANNE6 MSDS https://oileater.com/chemical-ingredients-list/ Update: I received my gallon of Oil Eater Orange and combined it with Ajax Extreme Clean Foaming Dish Soap https://www.walmart.com/ip/Ajax-E...om=/search I didn't even need to use Dawn Platinum, the Ajax worked great. The results confirm to me that this is as good as Dawn Powerwash, if not better. Naysayers can doubt all they want, but it's common sense. I'm adding the same active ingredient in Powerwash in a concentrated form. I mixed 2.5 oz of Ajax, 2.5 oz Oil Eater Orange, and about 11 oz water. Cost Ajax 18¢, Oil Eater 30¢ = 48¢ I didn't need to add alcohol as Oil Eater Orange has everything to work together with the dish soap. The best thing is you can control the strength of this formula by adding more or less Oil Eater degreaser (or dish soap if not foamy enough to you), but my first attempt worked really well with the amounts I mentioned.Eureka! It sprays and foams perfectly, just like real Powerwash, and more importantly it instantly dissolved coffee stains in my easily stained but hard to clean white Corelle coffee cups. It cut through dried on dog food from my pups dish. Just a side note, if you're expecting orange smell, you'll be disappointed. Even though this is an orange cleaner it doesn't really have that citrus smell, to me anyways.

Fascinating and thank you for sharing knowledge! This is what I hope for in SD and what can make the Internet so great, though not as common anymore.

I hesitated for years trying this but thoroughly impressed. I use it sparingly due health reasons. Marketed as a kitchen /dish product, this aerosolize quite far for being in a food environment. I make sure no open food or plates/glass/utensils/pots are with 3feet of spraying + I make sure to spray away from me entirely as I don't care for inhaling it. Almost all friends/family use it and cringe how none take even basic precautions avoiding foods/plates.

I haven't researched if/how dangerous it is, but nonetheless it's easy enough to use safely without concern. I hope it indeed safe, otherwise Dawn/P&G will either have lawsuits or change marketing.

Reminds me of the absolute asinine toothpaste with micro beads from mid 2000s. I was shocked plastic shards were used to make the beads! I didn't need anyone to tell me how stupid (borderline criminal) that was; it last a few years too much before banned. Some young folks might think 20 years ago, and that could never happen nowadays! Wrong! This wasn't emerging knowledge and zero reason for such greedy stupidity.

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