(Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images) To clean up an oily mess, one might reach for dish soap. But for cleaning tar out of the eyes, throats and nasal passages of sea turtles, a common ...

Or were they just tugging at our heartstrings to get us to buy dish soap? The commercials claim Dawn is the go-to product to clean oily wildlife, including birds, marine mammals and turtles.