Does anyone have a homemade dish soap recipe

[disneymama83]

Hi Everyone!

Does anyone have a good dish soap recipe they'd like to share? I already make my own laundry soap and save big $$ along with a homemade
all-purpose cleaner, now I would like to make my own dish soap. I tried to make one, but the recipe I found online was awful.


Thanks!

 

[smileycrissy]

It's not a homemade soap recipe but we recently bought in Lowe's a Kitchen Aid Foam Soap Dispenser. DH was doing some research and was really interested in getting this. Basically you fill the dispenser with 10% soap and fill the rest of it with water. It stretches your soap so it'll last longer. I think we paid either 10 or 12 bucks for the dispenser. Check out the below link so you can see it:

http://www.amazon.com/KitchenAid-Soap-Dispenser-Foam-Pump/dp/B002SSZ1HO

We've been using it for the past 2 months and I must say we're using less soap thus having to buy it less.

 

[RN01]

I'm interested in this also. I just started making my own laundry detergent and it's working out great. I'd love to save money on other cleaners as well.

 

[smileycrissy]

RN01 I'm interested in this also. I just started making my own laundry detergent and it's working out great. I'd love to save money on other cleaners as well.

I'm interested in your laundry detergent, please share.

 

[disneymama83]

I'm interested in your laundry detergent, please share.

4* Cups - hot tap water
1 Zote bar 0r Fels Naptha
2 Cup - Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda
2 Cup Borax

1. Grate bar of soap and add to saucepan with water. Stir continually over medium-low heat until soap dissolves and is melted.
1. Fill a 5 gallon bucket half full of hot tap water. Add melted soap, washing soda and Borax. Stir well until all powder is dissolved. Fill bucket to top with more hot water. Stir, cover and let sit overnight to thicken.
*Optional: You can add 10-15 drops of essential oil per 2 gallons. Add once soap has cooled. Ideas: lavender, rosemary, tea tree oil.

Where I live this recipe only cost $3.02

Use 1/2 c per load or 1 c for really dirty loads. I love it.

**Will not sud but works great!

Let me know if you have any questions

 

[billwendy]

I make a powdered laundry soap and love it!!! I also use vinegar in my downy ball for the rinse!!

We bought one of those foaming hand soaps and just keep refilling it with about 10% soap and then the rest with warm water and shake it up. I think I paid 1.99 for the foam soap to begin with!! and the refill jug o soap was 3 bucks at walmart - it has been lasting me YEARS now!!! lol

How about a home maid stain remover???

 

[Michelle and crew]

Can you beat $1. Dawn with a coupon? I do love fels naptha for the laundry. Also for stains, I find that dish washer detergent works for bad stains when I have hit the last ditch chance.

 

[Carina]

4* Cups - hot tap water
1 Zote bar 0r Fels Naptha
2 Cup - Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda
2 Cup Borax

1. Grate bar of soap and add to saucepan with water. Stir continually over medium-low heat until soap dissolves and is melted.
1. Fill a 5 gallon bucket half full of hot tap water. Add melted soap, washing soda and Borax. Stir well until all powder is dissolved. Fill bucket to top with more hot water. Stir, cover and let sit overnight to thicken.
*Optional: You can add 10-15 drops of essential oil per 2 gallons. Add once soap has cooled. Ideas: lavender, rosemary, tea tree oil.

Where I live this recipe only cost $3.02

Use 1/2 c per load or 1 c for really dirty loads. I love it.

**Will not sud but works great!

Let me know if you have any questions

I used that exact recipie for a year and my soap would not gel up and kept seperating. (except I use sunlight bar soap - no fels naptha in Canada)

Now I mix the borax and washing soda and add it a little at a time ( maybe 1/2 cup at a time) to the boiling soapy water. I just stir for 15-20 seconds then and another scoop.

I find now that I do that, it gels so well it thickens right away, and I do not have to let it thicken overnight before I decant it into my liquid bottles, and it never seperates.

Note to anyone that makes this for the first time....
YES it is supposed to look like watered down lumpy mashed potatoes.

My hubby is a landscaper and even on his flithy clothes I do not use more than the lid of the liquid bottle (under 1/2 cup)

It does not suds so it can be used it HE machines

 

[disneymama83]

I used that exact recipie for a year and my soap would not gel up and kept seperating. (except I use sunlight bar soap - no fels naptha in Canada)/QUOTE]


Hi! Maybe it was the soap bar because I use the Zote or fels naptha and it does gel.

Don't you just love making your own soap - saving a ton of money and a sense of accomplishment!

 

[RN01]

I make the powdered laundry detergent. Here's my recipe

1/2 cup Borax
1/2 cup washing soda
1 cup grated Fels Naptha laundry soap

I got 3- 1 cup "servings" out of one bar of the laundry soap. I've heard you can also use Ivory if you put it in the freezer for a while before grating. I added a couple scoops Oxy Clean the my batch because I'm whites were looking dingey and it works great!