What Dish Soaps Make Suds?
- Fundamentally, there are two different types of dish soaps: soaps used for hand washing dishes and soaps designed for use in dishwashers. Dishwasher soap products come in several different forms including liquid, gel, powder and tablets. Soaps for hand washing of dishes most often come in liquid form. Dishwasher detergents are made to be no-suds or low-suds because the suds would damage the dishwasher. Dish soaps made for hand washing dishes, however, are made to make suds.
- Among the selections for sudsing, hand-wash dish soap are a variety of name brand, or national brand, dish liquids. Included in these well-known and easily recognizable names of dish soap are Ivory, Palmolive, Joy, and Dawn. Some of the brands offer different products with varying characteristics such as differing fragrances, antibacterial ingredients and so on. All of these dish liquids produce some suds, though the volume varies with the product.
- Another choice the householder has in terms of sudsing liquid dish soap are store brand soaps. Most large grocery chains and retailers like Walmart market a brand under their own label as do many independent stores. The brand name may be the same as the name of the store or chain, but may be a different name. Shaw's supermarkets, for example, markets their generic products under the brand name "Home Life." Many of these brands offer comparable quality to the more recognized brand names at a lower price per unit.
- Store brand labels are fundamentally considered a generic brand of product. However, store brands are not the only generics available. Other less recognized brands, also known as generics, are more widely distributed. If you find the same brand name of product other than a nationally known brand in two unrelated stores, that brand name constitutes a generic brand product. One such product line that makes liquid dish soap is the Sun product line. Again, as with the store brand products, the quality (including sudsing) is comparable to brand name products but at a lower cost.
- Another type of liquid dish soap brand is dish liquid formulated to be environmentally friendly, or "green." This type is made to eliminate ingredients, such as phosphates, that have an adverse environmental impact and may also cause irritation to users with sensitivities to those sorts of ingredients. While these types also make suds, testing found that the suds do not last very long with this type of brand.
- The conditions of the water used for dishwashing has an effect on how much and how well any liquid dish soap will "suds." Locations that have what is known as "hard" water, which has a high mineral content, will get a lower production of suds.
