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Actually NO! Organic farming and gardening is older than time. The root cause is this incident is not yet understood....and don't be fooled, your petro-chemical food is a disaster waiting to happen:
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Plastics are petroleum based, but do not contain oil. Plastics, rubbers and vinyls are impervious to mositure. Dawn/water does not get past the surface.
Graying caused by detergent is merely the removal of grease, dirt,
grime, any dressing and perhaps some UV degraded surface material.
So lets recap.
Dawn is too harsh on the paint.
Dawn does or doesn't
remove wax?
It will harm plastics, vinyl and rubber?
1) Little fluffy girls/women have their hands in the stuff every nite - seem to survive okay.
2) Dawn is a degreaser, and it may well remove carnuba - hard to say with polymers.
3) We use rubber and plastic in industry to protect against corrosive chemicals and acids - Dawn is nothing compared to most of these.
4) Saying that dawn is too harsh on paint, but then claying, polishing, etc. is too funny since these later things are far more abrasive on the finish.
Someone wrote, if you're going to polish, why bother washing with dawn?
<rhetorical> So, if your going to polish, why wash the car at all? eek
Each level of cleaning takes advantage of the previous level. I washed my mother-in-laws car and even though I was going to clay, I used a bug/tar remover to get the tar off.
I wouldn't suggest routine washing with a dishwashing detergent, but at times when a more powerful cleaner/degreaser is called for, it makes sense to use a product that can handle the task. It's the extra cleaning power of the degreaser tips the scales - and really a Dawn wash once or twice a year is not going to harm the vehicle.