Blue hair and Dawn dish soap
My hair went white in my 40s and I've been using one of those purple shampoos that I got at the drug store until my store stopped carrying it. So I bought another shampoo through my hair salon but neglected to read the instructions. My old shampoo needed to be left on for 2 -3 minutes so that's what I did with the new one. Oops. My hair had a definite blue tinge. It took 2 washings with another shampoo to get it back to normal.
When I told my hair stylist about it, he said "Next time just wash it with Dawn." Dawn dish soap? Yup, he recommends it to his clients when they color their hair and the color is too dark or too brassy. It takes the color out. But you don't want to use it too often or it will make your hair dry and brittle.
So we got to talking about all the other uses for Dawn. I use it to remove sewing machine oil that gets on quilts, to pretreat greasy laundry stains (like butter and gravy) and to rinse latex paint out of brushes. What other uses have you found for Dawn dish soap?