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Reply	Stackcats says: It seems logical to me that the hot water will be removing more of the detergent. If you use the same amount of soap each time, and hot water produces more foam in a shorter time than cold, then there must be more un-foamed soap left on your hands when you use cold.  (no votes) Tags: domesticscience.
	posted on 2010-12-08 17:04:27 | Report abuse

Reply	tbrucenyc says: Hot water is a better solvent than cold. Cold water suppresses bubbles.  (no votes) Tags: domesticscience.
	posted on 2010-12-08 21:17:34 | Report abuse

Reply	translatrix says: As for rinsing rather smooth surfaces, like your hands or dishes, I think the hot water works better. But the bubble-suppressing effect of cold water can be important to get detergent out of a sponge. I had a detergent that simply seemed to mulitiply if I tried to wash it out of the sponge with hot water. As for hair I am not sure, it's somewhere in between, but i'm not going to try cold (nor very hot) water on my hair...  (no votes) Tags: domesticscience.
	posted on 2010-12-09 07:55:02 | Report abuse