Homemade Natural Liquid Dishwasher Detergent
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It has been long while since I’ve shared some DIY natural cleaning recipes. Like to long. At our house we don’t buy any cleaners. Ok so I take that back… when we first moved into our new house, 9 months ago, we did buy bathroom cleaner for deep cleaning. We learned three things: it sucked and totally didn’t work, the chemicals were awful (you literally couldn’t breath), and it gave me the worst allergy attack. Lessoned learned! 99.9% of the time we exclusively use homemade products. They are so much cheaper, work great, and you can feel good about what your putting in and around your house.
This recipe includes 4 simple ingredients: castile soap
, water, washing soda
, and lavender essential oil
. Can’t get much easier then that! This recipe works great and the lavender acts as an antibacterial to help sanitize.
Notes: To get extra sparkly dishes use vinegar as a rinse aid. Everyone has slightly different water and may get different results. So if your dishes are becoming cloudy then add a small squirt of natural dish soap to the dishwasher detergent in the detergent compartment.
Homemade Natural Liquid Dishwasher Detergent
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Ingredients
- 1/2 cup liquid castile soap
- 4 cups hot water
- 1/4 cup washing soda
- 10-20 drops of lavender essential oil
Instructions
- Mix hot water and washing soda until dissolved. Add in castile soap and lavender essential oil and allow to sit overnight to thicken (it should become very thick). Store in an easy to squeeze bottle or a mason jar.
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I followed the instructions, woke up this morning and our was still very much a liquid. Add more washing soda?
Same here
What do you mean by washing soda? Not sure what that is.
You can find it in the laundry aisle. It’s in a yellow box and looks like baking soda.
Love it! I want to make my own now! I definitely am pinning this and making it.
I am assuming the Lavender Oil is mostly for scent, and something else could be used instead? I have Peppermint Dr. Broners, so I’m thinking I’d prefer to use Peppermint and/or Tea Tree (for an extra cleaning boost) instead…
I use 10 drops of lemon and 5 drops of grapefruit essential oils in mine (but for smaller batch for hand washing since I don’t have a dishwasher) and it has the most wonderful “clean” scent to it. Added benefit I think is that the lemon adds a sparkle to the cleaned dishes.
Mine didn’t thicken at all overnight. What could I have done wrong?
Was it because I measured the water when cold then heated it up?
I use lemon essential oil!