5 mistakes when washing dishes that can bring disaster upon yourself

Washing dishes incorrectly can be a health hazard that many people don't realize.

1. Soak dishes in dishwashing liquid overnight

Many housewives, when seeing pots, pans, and dishes covered with greasy food, immediately soak these items in diluted solution overnight. After waking up overnight, the diluted food can be easily washed away. However, this causes the chemicals to penetrate deeper into the surface of the pots, pans, and 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 processing.

Many people think that this will make the 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 the skin of 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 your health and that of your loved ones.

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

Rinsing dishes after washing with a specialized dishwashing solution 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 the chemicals in the detergent are not rinsed thoroughly, they will definitely remain on the surface if only rinsed briefly. It is not true that once the suds are 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 instead. 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 remain on dishes, whether branded or unbranded, they are dangerous.

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

In particular, you should not use other detergents to replace specialized dishwashing liquid. If you experience itchy hands when using dishwashing liquid, you should stop.

According to Gia dinh.net