Some jewelers provide their customers with sudsy ammonia cleaning kits.
Other home recipes exist, including the application of white vinegar with hot water, or a mixture containing sudsy ammonia, alcohol and liquid dishwasher detergent.
Like a few other melodramatic flourishes, including a heightened soundtrack and some inordinately sudsy dialogue about dreams and desires, he detracts.
Burns deserves credit for avoiding the sudsy happily-ever-after clichs that deform so many contemporary romantic comedies.