Research Report:

Research Report:

I looked up an interesting article called ‘Quantifying the Impact of Car Washing on Water Quality and Assessing Simple Treatment Strategies’. It focused on reducing the amount damage to the waterways from the toxins in waste water from car washing water. In their experiments the used Sunlight soap to wash cars. After their experiments they recommended washing cars on grass so the grass will work very well as a filter and stop the bad toxins getting into the waterway. BUT they do not say anything about the effect of the Sunlight soap or other car washing liquid on your lawn. 

I looked at the Material Safety Data Sheet for Sunlight Dishwashing Liquid issued by Diversey Ltd (USA) in the [dated 2 August 2011] to see what environmental impacts to see what might be relevant to my experiment. Interestingly it states “No data available”  which is not very useful for people wanting to know if it affects their grass.

I also looked at the Material Safety Data Sheet for Sunlight Dishwashing Liquid issued by  Pental Products PTY Ltd (Australia, but also supplies NZ). There is no heading ‘Environmental Information but there is a heading ‘Ecological Information’ it says: “Contains component which is toxic to aquatic organisms, may cause long term adverse affects in the aquatic environment.” That sounds bad, but it does not say anything about Sunlight soap affecting grass.