Those suds you see when you brush your teeth are from detergents like sodium lauryl sulfate.
Your grandparents may swear by the simple cleanser, but soap often contains harsh detergents that strip skin of natural oils.
To achieve this, the team extracted the lungs of dead rats and flushed out the cells using a mixture of detergents.
“Low-phosphate dish detergents are a waste of my money,” said Thena Reynolds, a 55-year-old homemaker from Van Zandt County, Tex. , who said she ran her dishwasher twice a day for a family of five.
Scientists have found a possibly harmful fungus that grows in dishwashers, surviving high temperatures, aggressive doses of detergents and rinsing salts and both acid and alkaline types of water.
