'Morning Fresh' and 'Palmolive' are probably the most popular detergents. I hate to be the one that lets the cat out of the bag since there are a lot of window cleaners who jealously guard their secret formula, but I don't see any point in not telling. And since the dew doesn’t cause the window to weep, it stays clean for a very long time.Take care using scrapers on glass! If you don't know the correct methods, you could cause permanent damage! Check point 2 in 'How to do it' below. “The glass now sparkles as it bounces the light freely off the many pits and pores, like a diamond. Glass Gleam 4 (GG-4), on the other hand, not only avoids creating goop, it removes it from the pores, leaving window cleaner, longer. This is where dish soap’s cleaning “goop” collects. The bottom side of the glass is perfectly smooth, but the top side has microscopic pits and pores.
When glass is manufactured, it has to cool down from 2800☏, and this is done through a process called “floating.” The glass “rides on a river of molten tin.” As glass cools, it shrinks and solidifies. These microscopic pores are created during the glass-making process.
However, what you really get is a blend of the soap scum mixed with the calcium, in turn creating a sludge-like goop that fills the microscopic pores on the surface of the glass and slowly destroys window tracks. That’s supposed to make you think it’s working.” “Chemical blenders know this so they add a foaming agent, such as sodium lauryl sulfate, to produce artificial bubbles or foam. The problem comes when you mix surfactants with calcium (i.e., hard water) because they create a soapy scum. So, when you get them wet, they go crazy." While this is great for cleaning fabrics because the surfactants move through the material to loosen dirt, it's bad for glass. One head loves water and the other hates it. (More on that in a minute.)Īs Alan Noah of Titan Laboratories explained, "Surfactants are wonderful little two-headed creatures. However, dish soaps are degreasers made up of almost 100% surfactants, so they have a lot of suds. Professional window cleaners often use dish soaps like Dawn or Joy to help their window cleaning squeegees glide. Can You Use Dish Soap for Window Cleaning?
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