Sometimes being frugal isn’t about avoiding commercial products. Sometimes it’s about knowing how to put commercial products to their best use! There are a lot of inexpensive products out there that can do the job of more expensive products. One of my favorites is Dawn dish soap! Here are 20 Frugal Ways to Use Dawn Dish Soap!
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Note that the following uses apply to cases where you use the blue Dawn soap (Dawn Ultra). They may or may not work with the other types of Dawn due to variations in the formulas. Though if you’re concerned about the blue dye of Dawn Ultra, it’d be worthwhile to try using the dye-free Dawn Pure Essentials instead. These also may or may not work with other brands of dish soap, but again, in most cases it probably doesn’t hurt to try. To test your soap, you can take a small amount of it and just put it on a small part of the surface you want to affect and see how it works.
And this isn’t a sponsored post. I just truly find Dawn to be a very useful (and frugal) soap!
20 Frugal Ways to Use Dawn Dish Soap
1. Emergency Hair Cleanup
If your kids (or you) get something grease-based in their hair, like gum or a sticky toy, you can use Dawn dish soap to help clean it out! Just put a little Dawn on your fingertips, and rub it onto the sticky stuff, using your fingers or a comb to nudge the stuff out.
2. Weed Killer
One of the more interesting ways to use Dawn dish soap is as a weed killer! A mixture of Dawn (1/2 teaspoon), salt (1/2 cup), and white cleaning vinegar (1/2 gallon) can help keep weeds under control. You can spray or pour it directly on the offending plants, being sure to avoid any of the plants you want to keep! If you have a really bad weed situation, or stubborn weeds that even this mixture can’t kill, you may want to try this natural vinegar based weed killer that’s 6 times stronger than distilled household cleaning vinegar!
3. Concrete Safe Driveway De-Icer
Using salt-based de-icers on your driveway and sidewalk can damage the concrete over time. A safer substitute is a combination of a gallon warm of hot water, 2 tablespoons of rubbing alcohol, and 2 teaspoons of Dawn in a bucket. Pour this mixture over the frozen concrete areas, and they’ll melt and keep from refreezing! I also have some tips on frugal ways to de-ice your windshield!
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