Translation: While laundry detergent is better at removing stains from clothes, it’s more harmful to your skin than hand-washing dish soap (but less harmful than dishwasher detergent, the ...

The soap and detergent production industries are also great contributors to air pollution. The petroleum compounds used for making household cleaning products like detergents are volatile.

Dedicated October 25, 2006, at Procter & Gamble headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. The description of synthetic detergents as the first big change in soap making in two millennia was hardly an ...