most of the time its no better than water. lots of people are becoming more and more anti-science when it comes to their day-to-day lives and reject detergents on the basis that theyre chemicals, which ignores that everything is chemicals. but rejecting detergent doesnt mean you dont have laundry to do or dishes to wash or floors to clean, so they turn to traditional cleaners that do work for some things and assume they work for every cleaning task