Soap For Washing Dishes and General Cleaning…Momzoo style!
A few weeks ago I did a post on how I use homemade soap. Several readers suggested that instead of shaving flakes of soap off my bar with a knife I use a cheese grater. While I think that is a great idea, found it easier to just grab my knife than get out the grater and do it that way.
Until….
I was making laundry soap and I realized (duh) that the very ingredients that were in my laundry soap were the same ones I used in my kitchen sink every day.
( My jar of laundry soap)
So instead of getting each ingredient out separate and adding it to the sink, I could just use a Tablespoon of my laundry soap.
and to make things better…..
I put some in one of my cute squatty mason jars…
and it now has a home next to the kitchen sink for even easier use.
I love using homemade cleaning products it makes things much simpler, with no dangerous chemicals lying around and there aren’t a dozen different bottles to store.
(P.S. I don’t use this in the dishwasher, it make a film on my dishes I don’t like, I use it to hand wash items that don’t go in the dishwasher ((it makes my crystal glasses sparkle!)) I also use it for basic kitchen cleaning, for example the counters or the stove)
(P.P.S. Also, this mixture won’t produce bubbles…bubbles come from a chemical added to soaps. Natural homemade soaps won’t produce thick lathers like commercial products do. You don’t need lather to clean, that is something we have been trained to expect by commercial soap companies)
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I make my own laundry soap too, almost the same way you do. I've never thought of using in on dishes.
I'm assuming you use it in a dishwasher? I wash dishes by hand so it probably wouldn't work as well for me, but good to know for future use.
No, not in the dishwasher. It leaves a film on the dishes. I use this for the items I hand wash and anything else that needs to be cleaned in the kitchen (counter top, stove, etc…)
It's so hard to get used to no bubbles!!! In my mind, bubbles equal clean. I have to retrain my thinking.
Any chance we could get you to post a rough "how-to" make the skirts your girls wear?
I just started thinking about making my own dish soap. We have been making our own laundry detergent for a year or more.
I do want to add a thought that it also works extrememly well on scrubbing out the bathtub. We had a film on it that no matter how hard I scrubbed with the regular cleaner I couldn't get out. One day recently for some reason I just grabbed a scoop sprinkled it in and that film came right up….I am looking into making more of my own homemade products.