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Homemade Dish Soap

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Date: 07/12/2007 Topics: Cleaning > Cleaning Recipes > Dishes | Readers Request > Make Your Own  
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Need a recipe for a good sudsing cheap homemade dishwashing soap recipe. Please help guys, my mom thoroughly enjoys washing dishes but we live on a shoestring budget. I would like to be able to afford moms clean habit. Thanks to all.

Igmom from TN
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Post By Henri (Guest Post) (03/31/2008)
Is there someone that knows the formula of liquid dish soap like Sunlight, Sila, Daisy or Brilho. My partner that did the production is somewhere lost and I am sitting on a lot of raw materials.

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Post by iBroke (18) | (01/04/2008)
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Octagon soap. It's cheap it's in bar form. It doesn't suds up a lot. It strips grease well, and can be used to clean the floor, counters, cabinets, anything in the kitchen really. Cost about $1; it doesn't melt away fast because its hard.

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Post By Carol in PA (Guest Post) (07/18/2007)
Buy gallons of dish detergent or use coupons on very small sizes to get the best price. Thin the detergent by adding water to it. (Thats what is in the cheap varieties... water. dont use your hard earned money to buy water. YOu can add it yourself.)

Please note there is a different between soap and detergent. Detergent is what you need to wash clothing and dishes. Soap is for skin.

I have extremely sensitive skin and my hands crack and bleed. My dermatologist tells me not to wear plastic or rubber gloves. They can make "dry" hands worse as they cause sweat. Its actually the water that causes the drying and cracking. I like Palmolive dishwashing detergent. Try to find the old-fashioned kind. Detergents with antibacterial agents in them hurt my hands.

Best of luck

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Post by Cindy S. (115) | (07/18/2007)
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If you buy a quality soap like Dawn you can get away with using only a teaspoon per sinkfull of dishes.

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Post by kimhis (615) | (07/17/2007)
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Check laundry soap prices at your local feed store where they have five-gallon buckets of it. It's very slippery, but it makes a good dishwashing soap. Put a couple tablespoons powder into a 2-cup bottle of water, best I can remember. Makes EXTREMELY cheap dish soap.

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Post by jess_admin (487) | (07/12/2007)
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Every dishwashing liquid I buy dries my hands right out. I would like to try and make my own. Any good homemade recipes for dish soap out there? Environmentally friendly would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Susie from Barrie, Ontario

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RE: Homemade Dish Soap

A few sources for recipes:

Easy recipe from

Save that empty dish-soap bottle, and refill it with a homemade dish soap. Fill a 22-ounce squirt bottle with Castile soap, which is a pure odorless soap. Add 15 drops of lemon or lemongrass essential oil, six drops of lavender essential oil and five drops of bergamot essential oil. Also see:

and this thread from right here on Thrifty Fun!:

By germanbini

RE: Homemade Dish Soap

I read somewhere to use the leftovers from shampoo and conditioners. I believe in frugal.com

RE: Homemade Dish Soap

Thanks germanbini for the cleaning tip site, it's great for all the natural product solutions you need if you don't want to clean using chemicals. TWO thumbs up

CHEERS :)

By Lambchop Western Australia

RE: Homemade Dish Soap

If your hand dry out washing dishes, wear rubber gloves.

By Anita

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