"Taiwanese consumers have been brainwashed by the manufacturers into thinking that the more fine bubbles there are the more powerful the cleaning action," says Chen Jin-shu. Manufacturers add foaming agents to make their products foamier without realizing that not only have they nothing to do with cleansing power, too many bubbles may actually impair cleaning by making the surface too slippery. More water gets wasted as well.
「台灣的消費者已被廠商洗腦，總認為泡沫要又多又柔細，才有洗淨效果，」長庚生技陳錦書說，廠商為了達到起泡效果，在清潔劑中加入了發泡劑，殊不知泡沫非但與清潔力無關，泡沫太多反而會因過滑而阻礙洗滌，而且洗清時還會浪費更多用水。