My sister told me I was wasting half a bottle every month, and she was right | Dish Soap Deep Dive

Derek Gonzalez · 2026-10-20T14:00:06.299364+00:00

Last month my sister stayed with us for a week and watched me do dishes one night. She picked up my bottle and said straight out, "you're flooding the sponge, that's why the bottle's gone in two weeks." I got kind of defensive at first, but then I actually watched her do a whole sink of plates with one small squirt. She put the soap right in the middle of a wet sponge, squeezed it a few times so it foamed up inside, and that was it. I'd been doing the thing where I squirt it straight onto whatever pan I'm holding, which just sends half of it down the drain. I switched to her sponge method about 3 weeks ago and my current bottle is still more than half full. My hands also feel less dried out, which I did not expect. So now I'm curious, is the sponge thing what everybody does, or do some of you still go straight on the pan?

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