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The chemicals in detergent are poison like.
You pour them in the soil and the roots absorb it.
The plant mistakes it as water and nutrients.
Then chemicals spread through it eventually killing it.
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YesIf you google detergent plants, a gazillion hits are returned on the subject of the effects of detergents on plants. Numerous experiments have shown that detergents kill plants of all types. surely detergent will kill the plants.. the reason being is detergents have the foaming agent such as sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) or sodium lauryl sulphate which can cleave the protein molecules present in the cells converting them into peptides by breaking the chemical bondings.. how can a plant survive without protein?Forget that comment at the bottom, I erased it.
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because detergents end up turning into dish water and draining into the ocean and that causes an algae bloom and that blocks out sun light for other plants and all the plants below the algae dies
