Comments on: Greenwash: Palmolive eco+ Gel Dishwasher Detergent

By: Inspiration to Clean Green : Tree Hugging Family - Family Life On The Green Side

Inspiration to Clean Green : Tree Hugging Family - Family Life On The Green Side — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:37:09 +0000

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By: Phineas Pheltpants

Phineas Pheltpants — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:20:34 +0000

I have a suggestion: why not forego the use of dishes and utensils altogether? Just pile the food on the table and have at it! True, there is the pot or pan to clean but some rain water rinse and sunshine will take care of that in no time!

By: Rita

Rita — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:37:40 +0000

I used the new palmalive dishwasher soap and I found a terrible film of some kind on all of the utensils They all had to be rinsed over again. Can some on help with this problem maybe I am putting to much in there. I went by the directions can someone help…

By: Penny

Penny — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:58:10 +0000

Costco has its “environmentally friendly” free of phosphates, dyes and perfumes Kirkland brand. Front of box says no phosphates or chlorine (has oxygen chlorine free bleach). I love it. Unfortunately haven’t been able to find it in the Twin Cities’ Costcos this last month.

By: Peggy

Peggy — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:10:34 +0000

Mama Taney, don’t give up on green dish soap. Palmolive isn’t a real eco product anyway. Give Method a try. I’ve been happy with it.

By: Mama Taney

Mama Taney — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:55:57 +0000

Soy — Soak your dishes (this works especially well on glasses) in warm vinegar water. That helped get the film off our stuff. We have gone back to Cascade. I know it isn’t green – but I’m sick of having my dishes look worse coming out of the dishwasher than when they went in!
The soak, then within a couple runs back through with Cascade should have things back to normal.

By: Soy

Soy — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:21:47 +0000

OMG, Palmolive Eco is the worst ever! I never knew a detergent could actually make your dishes look worse than when you put them in the dishwasher!!!! All of my dishes, silverware and glasses were coated with a film that I could not get off even by handwashing. I went to Sears (where I bought my relatively new dishwasher) and almost scheduled a repairman to come out and fix it. A friend suggested maybe it was the Palmolive and judging but these posts I have to agree. Never had this problem with Cascade! Maybe it’s b/c I have hard water? No idea but NEVER again. I actually think some of my silverware and glasses are ruined as I can not get the film off no matter what I do.

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:38:09 +0000

I experimented and using Palmolive Eco in the first cup, and vinegar in the second cup solved the problems with streaky, spotty glasses. Do NOT just pour in vinegar in the bottom of the dishwasher with the Eco because it creates a toxic gas (I won’t do that again!).

I also tried the Ecover tablets and liked it. No need to use vinegar. But it sometimes it leaves food residue on some of the things like spatulas that I used for frying eggs.

I will try Seventh Generation gel next, and with vinegar in the second cup if necessary. I didn’t like their powder that I tried a couple of years ago.

My first experiment was using Eco in the first cup and a phosphate gel in the second cup. I figured I was at least using half of the phosphates as previously. But I plan to keep experimenting until I come up with the best non-phosphate solution.

By: Is Your Product’s Packaging Telling Lies? : Blisstree - Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles

Sun, 31 May 2009 18:17:27 +0000

[...] it. They know you’re busy, and with good intentions may pick up a product just because it has “eco” in the name. But is it really good for you or the [...]

By: JoAnn

JoAnn — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:31:32 +0000

Well, even if it does have chlorine bleach and sodium silicate in it, it rinses off in the hot water and my dishes sparkle and we have not been sick since using it and that has been for 8 years. I don’t have to use the Jet-Dry either. I really like it.