Long ago my grandpa worked at a Standard station. I never knew that was the old name for Chevron. One time he called me and needed me to meet him at the Standard station a couple towns over. I tried to tell him there are no stations with that name and that I had no idea where to meet him but his hearing was so bad he didn't understand. Finally I found his car at the Chevron. He'd been waiting almost an hour for me and he was pissed. "Can't ya read? It says Standard right on the sign!" I told him to take a good look at that sign and read what it says. "It says standard!" I told him to look very closely because if "Chevron" looks like "Standard" it's time to turn in the drivers license because he's as blind as he is deaf. Fuckin Helen Keller over here lol.
This hits close to home for me. My dad has early onset dementia. I recently stopped him from using bleach with Dawn while cleaning the kitchen sink. I explained how it's dangerous. He asked "Where did you learn about this?" I just made some shit up. The truth is, he taught me that when I was like 8. This is the one scenario where telling a little white lie is the best and most merciful option.
I didn't know there was anything in dawn that reacts with bleach. That's the scary thing about the stuff. Bleach interacts with a bunch of different things that can mess you up.
There isn't, as far as I can tell, although some other liquid dish soaps have a small amount of ammonia in them which is bad to mix with bleach, as you know. I think this is misinformation by way of brand genericization.
That said it also doesn't really offer any benefits either, so any level of risk isn't worth it.
Yeah it's easier to keep everything separated. If I need a degreaser I use dawn. If I need to sanitize I use bleach. I don't really mess with ammonia.
I went back to ammonia-based glass cleaner recently and if you can stand the horrid stench, it does an amazing job. Non-ammonia cleaners simply can't compete.
