I’ve noticed when cleaning dishes that when the cleaning solution is “sudsy,” cleaning seems to happen more quickly (less scrubbing, etc.).
Is this because:
* The suds themselves help with cleaning
* The suds don’t help with cleaning but they indicate that the cleaning solution has a particular desirable property;
* The suds don’t help with cleaning and aren’t related to any desirable property.
A related question is: For any effective cleaning solution can one create a cleaning solution which is just as effective but has very little sudsiness?
In: Chemistry
Suds don’t help, they’re a product of the types of detergent used.
There are more effective detergents that don’t suds up – if you have a dishwasher it probably uses some version of these. Manufacturers tried to market them for hand washing dishes a while back but everyone kept using way too much while still not believing their dishes to be clean, because they weren’t getting any suds from it.
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