Homemade Dishwasher Detergent

Ever since I made my own homemade laundry detergent, and loved it,  I've been looking for new ways to make my own cleansers. Since I've seen so many recipes for homemade dishwasher detergents, I figured I'll give it a try. After trying a few of those recipes, I conjured up my own. My recipe is simple, it calls just for four simple ingredients. For those of you who make their own cleaners will have at least two of those ingredients on hand...Borax and Washing Soda (NOT baking soda). For those of you who don't have them, you'll find them in the laundry/cleaning aisle at your local grocery store. They usually sit around in the area of the powdered laundry soaps section.  The other two ingredients are salt and Citric Acid. For those who are not familiar with citric acid, it's used in home canning to replace lemon juice or vinegar in certain recipes. I buy my citric acid at a bulk store, if you don't see the citric acid in the spice aisle at your local grocery store, look in the home canning section at your grocery or hardware stores (whichever one has a larger selection). Yes you heard right, home canning supplies in a Hardware store. Twenty years ago when I started home canning, small mom and pop hardware stores was the ONLY place you found home canning supplies, now it's everywhere. I don't know about home depot, but I DO know Lowes carries a nice selection of home canning supplies ONLY during the summer time. True Value Hardware stores carry it year round. If you still can't find citric acid, I have a link on the right for you to buy it from Amazon. Enough of home canning and back to the Dishwasher Detergent.  It's real simple to do, the combination of the ingredients is as follows :

       Powdered Dishwasher Detergent 

           1 and 2/3 cups of Borax
           1 and 2/3 cups of washing soda
                3/4 cup of Salt
           2/3 cup of Citric Acid

                               



        Combine all the ingredients and store in a air tight container. To use, place 1/2 tbls in the prewash tray and 1 tbls. in regular wash tray. For those who have hard water I suggest using jetdry or vinegar in the rinse dispenser.  

                              
                                  

                                  ~~It's That Easy~~



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