I find myself buying a new jug of dishwasher soap fairly often and wasn't happy with the load of freaky petroleum-based chemicals I was putting into the ground. I looked for a dishwasher detergent that was easy to make and used all natural ingredients.
I found this recipe at www.diynatural.com
Homemade Dishwasher Detergent (Soap) Recipe
1 cup Borax
1 cup washing soda
1/2 cup citric acid
1/2 cup kosher salt
Fill rinse agent compartment with white vinegar.
Use 1 TBS. per load. Don't fill the cup because you'll get too many suds.
I used the citric acid because I read that without it you would get a cloudy residue left on your dishes. The article says you can get it at a brewery or specialty beer store. We don't have anything like that in this small town and I remembered that there's a pretty good amount of citric acid in Fruit Fresh or All Fresh (the stuff that keeps your fruit from getting brown when you cut it up). That's something I can find at our little grocery store, so I went with it and it seems to work!
This recipe gets your dishes really clean! I didn't write down what it cost to buy all of the ingredients, but I calculate I spent about $12.00 for full packages of everything. With what I have I can mix up about 18 cups of detergent . At 1 tablespoon per load this is going to last a loooong time and be way cheaper than store bought dishwasher soap!
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