5 mistakes when washing dishes that can bring disaster upon yourself

Washing dishes improperly can be a health hazard that many people do not realize.

1. Soak dishes in dishwashing liquid overnight

Many housewives, when seeing pots, pans, dishes with greasy food stuck on them, immediately soak the items in diluted solution overnight. After waking up one night, the food has diluted and can be easily washed off. However, this makes the chemicals penetrate deeper into the surface of the pots, pans, or dishes.

In addition, it is dangerous to soak bamboo or wooden bowls, chopsticks, pots, etc. in dishwashing liquid because it cannot be completely cleaned. Chemicals will penetrate deep into the wood fibers and stick to food during cooking.

Many people think that this will make dishes clean faster and save more effort in washing dishes, but in fact, this is a serious mistake because you have created an opportunity for cleaning chemicals to seep into your cooking utensils and food containers.

2. Bare hands to wash dishes

If you do not use gloves when washing dishes, the toxic chemicals in the dishwashing liquid will directly damage your hands. Frequent contact with dishwashing liquid will cause your hands to become wrinkled, rough, even cracked and corroded by chemicals. Even more dangerous, chemicals can easily penetrate the skin, enter the body and cause many other diseases.

Washing dishes incorrectly will leave chemicals behind (illustrative photo)

3. Use floating dishwashing liquid

In general, all cleaning products contain toxic chemicals, but if compared, floating cleaning products pose more potential risks of poisoning humans. The reason is that floating products of unknown origin and not quality tested may contain toxic substances that are not allowed to be used. Moreover, due to being mixed arbitrarily, the process of mixing substances together can lead to many chemical reactions that generate other toxins.

Therefore, it is best to use cleaning solutions of natural or well-known origin, which both increase cleaning efficiency and are safe for the health of you and your loved ones.

4. After washing with dishwashing liquid, only rinse the dishes with water once.

Rinsing dishes after washing with a specialized dishwashing liquid is quite an important step. However, many people do not take this issue too seriously and only rinse once with water until there is no more foam.

However, with these methods, if not washed thoroughly, the chemicals in the detergent will definitely still stick to the surface if only rinsed. It is not true that once the foam is gone, the dishes are clean of soap, but we should avoid going over them many times to clean them.

Therefore, in addition to rinsing with cold or hot water to remove all chemicals on dishes.

5. Use other detergents instead of dishwashing liquid

Many people run out of dishwashing liquid and use it every day to replace it with a soap. This is a huge mistake. Because the chemical ingredients in soap are highly toxic, some even contain carcinogens, while washing powder has strong cleaning and disinfecting properties, so if used to wash dishes, it can easily lead to many risks of diseases such as hepatitis, stomach, gallbladder, reduced body resistance, etc. Therefore, do not abuse these toxic chemicals to wash dishes.

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Duy Thinh, Institute of Biotechnology and Food Technology (Hanoi University of Science and Technology) said that when using dishwashing liquid, consumers must follow the correct principles and wash thoroughly.

If detergents are left on dishes, whether branded or non-branded, they can be dangerous.

Therefore, when washing dishes, you need to wear gloves to avoid contact of your skin with dishwashing liquid to avoid affecting your health.

In particular, you should not use other detergents to replace specialized dishwashing liquid. When using dishwashing liquid and your hands feel itchy, you should stop.

According to Gia dinh.net