Don’t know about any other products, but Method super concentrated laundry detergent is awesome. Instead of lugging around a big jug of detergent I just have this cute little squirt bottle that lasts twice as long. I am really sensitive to soaps and things and have never had any allergy issues with it, either.
Someone upthread said psychoanalysis, but I’ll go one step further and say psychodynamic therapy, which is still a widely practiced form of mental health counseling. What little evidence we have on its efficacy indicates that it works about as well as placebo.
To the people who need this service you might as well be speaking Chinese. To someone like my uncle who uses the computer by basically remembering exactly where to click in order to get to yahoo mail and any minor change renders him completely an utterly incapable of using the computer something like is pretty much mandatory if I’m unable to help him.
Simple Green. I dilute mine 25:75 and it works great at getting the general cooking grease off of the stove top. I’ve been working down the same $4 bottle of Simple Green for the last year.
On the list of shit that doesn’t work: MyFatCure.com. I won’t put a direct link because the stupid will backwash down the internet lines and get The Dope all messy. Yes, if you only eat 500 calories a day, you will lose weight. But that is because you are starving yourself, not because the stupid, urine-derived throat spray they give you enhances your metabolism to that of a pregnant woman’s. Why would anyone think that would work? Oh yeah, my mother. :mad:
Is that one of those diet things that have the small print - “To be used with diet and exercise for best results?” You know what else works? Diet and exercise, and NOT paying for your expensive scammy crap.
n-propoxypropanol (aka Dipropylene Glycol Monopropyl Ether). That’s what does the job in 409.
2-butoxyethanol (aka ethylene glycol butyl ether). That’s what does the job in Simple Green. Simple Green and Formula 409 are damn near the same thing. I am astonished at what slapping the word “green” on the label will accomplish.
Is that what it used to be when it worked, or what it is now? The four-year-old bottle in our cupboard that doesn’t work well uses Alkyl (C12 40% C14 50% C16 10%) dimethly benzyl amonium chloride.
We recently got a new dishwasher, and I complained to my husband that it was leaving the same white filmy ‘stuff’ on the dishes that the old crappy dishwasher did. I had assumed that one of the perks of a nice new washer would be no filmy dishes. Then I saw this article. Apparently eco-friendly detergent is now mandatory in my area, and apparently the price of eco-friendly dishwasher detergent is icky looking/feeling dishes.
So anyone have a product I won’t waste my money on that makes your dishes look and feel nice? (and please don’t tell me hand-washing them. I have very few luxuries in life, and not having to hand-wash dishes is one of them!)
I like Simple Green because of the smell. I like it when stuff cleans, but the smell is important to me. I’ve used some great products that I ditched because I couldn’t stand the residual smell when I walked into my kitchen.
Judging from all the “New & Improved!” (ie: we took out all the stuff that actually works) stuff on the market, I’m afraid the land of cleaning products that actually work is quickly fading into obscurity.
Not a popular response, but the worst purchase I ever made it my life was a Dyson vaccuum. First one slipped gears and wouldn’t pull. Finally, after three trips to the shop, they gave me a new one. And that slipped gears and wouldn’t pull.
DealExtreme has great prices, but assume that anything you buy will be non-returnable or refundable. They have policies set up to virtually guarantee you’ll never collect - ie, you must have photographed the package and all its contents and attach the photo to your online complaint form, even if the product never arrived (?!), and then then you’re issued a credit that you are unable to access - it took over 6 months to get them to agree to my credit (for a product that they never had in stock and therefore never mailed) after I finally posted on a complaint website, but I’ve never been able to access the credit. So buy from them if you can afford to throw away a few cents on cheap fun stuff, but stay away from anything else.
I started having this problem, and I started putting a cup of white vinegar in the dishwasher when I start it. The article says to put a cup of white vinegar in the top rack and run it through a cleaning cycle.
I found that Simple Green works GREAT on nicotine, while 409 is only so-so. The best cleaner I’ve found for nicotine, though, is LA’s Awesome Cleaner, which I’ve only seen at dollar stores.