Friday, July 29, 2011

Dishwasher Detergent

Making homemade laundry detergent got me thinking about what else I can make myself. I figured homemade dishwasher detergent couldn't be too hard. So I of course googled and found DIY Natural. It included two of the ingredients from the laundry detergent, and it was super simple.

1 cup of Borax
1 cup of Washing soda
1/2 cup of Kosher salt
1/2 cup of Citric Acid (I ordered this online)


Just measure and pour all of these items into a container and shake shake shake.

Then find a cute little helper to spoon the detergent into your soup dispensers. You gotta start them on chores young ya know ;)


I have used it a couple of times and no complaints. DIY Natural also suggested using vinegar as a rinse agent. I haven't tried it yet, but I am slowly learning the power and millions of uses of vinegar.

1 comment:

Claire Hilary said...

I use vinegar for not only a rinse agent, but also a household cleaner. You will usually smell the vinegar smell initially, but it goes away in about 10-15 minutes when it dries. Works well on windows instead of Windex MUCH better than all the chemicaly things.