Can you use Dawn to hand wash clothes?

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asked Mar 25, 2020 in laundry/Cleaning by lelsonia (460 points)
Can you use Dawn to hand wash clothes?

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answered Mar 25, 2020 by lulumeon (40,870 points)
Yes you can use Dawn Dish Soap to wash clothes by hand.

When I lived in a small apartment without a washing machine I would use Dawn Dish Soap to wash clothes and other laundry by hand.

I could've took the clothes down to the laundromat but it would've been expensive for me to use the laundromat for washing and drying the clothes.

So I would just put the clothes in the bathtub and add some Dawn Dish Soap to the bath water and allow the clothes to soak in the tub for an hour and then I would go back and move them around in the tub by hand and then wring them out by hand as well.

I would turn on the shower and rinse the soap out of the clothes.

It worked great although it was a lot of work.

However people have for thousands of years washed clothes without regular laundry detergent and did the laundry by hand so it's possible.

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