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Having just started my dishwasher with a rinse aid, I checked on some of the ingredients. All of them slightly toxic w/ little potential to bioaccumulate.

Do you know what chemicals or products restaurants tend to use?



My dishwasher manual suggested using white vinegar as a rinse aid alternative. I thought it might make the dishes smell like vinegar but it's been fine.


I use white vinegar to deodorize my clothes and can confirm that it evaporates when dried.


All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison.


The commercial dishwasher rinse aids are much much worse

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33822149




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