Not having the luxury of the dishwasher at home makes you realize how fast dishes can pile up and leads to such a messy kitchen. Aside from the fact that hand washing your dishes surely takes up huge amount of time and energy that even having a fail-proof system for conquering your tower of plates and coffee mugs are useless, there’s this doubt in your mind that will certainly eat you away asking if after all the effort you exerted were your dishes actually cleaned.

But no need to worry! For everyone out there who is on Team Hand Wash and doesn’t want to be bothered by the problem of needing a dishwasher when in fact you can do it on your own, life without one surely doesn’t have to be very much complicated and stressful. So here are some helpful tips for you to be assured that you are really getting your dishes rinsed and clean.

Number one is to use hot water and dish soap to eliminate the greasy feel on the dishes. Since removing leftover food from your dishes has always been the first step to an effective hand-washing system, hot water will be the key in this phase—but then, make sure that the heat isn’t intended to truly sanitize your dishes. The required temperature for bacteria to die is well above your tap could ever go and is likely higher than what your skin can take. Using hot water is truly effective in sterilizing and purifying your dishes for it to be germ-free.

Number two will be to always keep in mind that the cleaners item should come first since when you’re hand-washing the dishes, order truly matters. This is to avoid the germs to disseminate or the food particles to spread, and also to keep …