[Sooty61]

Washing up​

4 kids in our house. Always an argument whose turn it was to dry the dishes. Dad always washed them & for some reason always used Velvet soap & steel wool on the saucepans fry pans etc. Then rinsed them off with boiling water from the kettle. They were always spotless.

 

[Wandiwa]

The velvet soap might have been, because your dad's hands were sensitive to detergents. Growing up a neighbour never used clothes washing detergent, always grated velvet soap into the washing machine because of family skin sensitivity.