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Thought maybe a few house washers here could benefit from the use of sodium Lauryl Sulfate, the main cleaning/foaming agent in Dawn and alot of other soap products. I buy 29% Sodium Lauryl Sulfate in 5 gallon buckets from a vendor on ebay (arkie-annie). $59.95 + $35.98 for shipping =  $95.93 to the door. Which isn't bad in itself, but here is the best part of this deal,...you can make a total of 15 gallons of better quality soap with the one bucket.

 Here's why,..At 29% this stuff is kinda weird,Ha,Ha,..VERY, VERY suseptible to solidifying when the temperature is below like 55 degrees,..turns into a lard looking substance. Messy,and not very usable in that state. I found that cutting it with water not only made a more stable product, but made it more usable and it mixes very easily and thoroughly into your mix without sacrificing "soapyness".... Through internet research along with experimenting, I found that thicker soap isn't necessarily better. Alot of people relate thickness of soap to quality and more concentrated,....do you know how they make liquid soaps thick and luxurious??,...they add salt.  I found this out by trying to make an all in one house wash soap by  mixing up Sodium Hydroxide and then simply pouring it into the Sodium Lauryl Sulfate ,Ha,Ha,..it turned thick and snotty as soon as they came in contact with each other. So now I make (3) 5 gallon buckets of Sodium Lauryl Sulfate for $32.00 each and use Sodium Hydroxide added separately in my house wash mix. So you see some of these thick soaps that are added to a house wash mix are possibly turning ebven thicker in the bucket containg soium hypochlorite, because of the salt content. And if the mix is to thick it won't flow though the soap injector properly.

I don't like soapy roof mix so I don't use it in my roof mix,..Not sure how stable it is with liquid hypo, but I'm sure it could be used at the same amounts as Dawn,..except it's alot cheaper at only $32.00 for 5 gallons. Maybe it could also replace some of these other roof soaps that have popped up over the last few years.

Downstreaming I use in a 5 gallon bucket approximately:

2.5 gallons 12.5% liquid hypo 

1 cup Sodium Hydroxide flakes

2 cups 9.6% Sodium Lauryl Sulfate 

Jeff