Dishwasher Detergent Recipe | The Pennywise Family

I posted a few weeks ago about making your own laundry detergent. Now I’ve been after dishwasher detergent. There’s a great web site called “Dollar Stretcher” and they have some recipes for home-made dishwasher detergent.

You just put one tablespoon Borax and one tablespoon baking soda in the detergent compartment. For “add rinse agent” put in white vinegar.

Similarly, you can “stretch” your existing dishwasher detergent with the 1/2 borax, 1/2 soda mixture if you really like something about your detergent.

Let me know what you think if you try this out. I haven’t yet, but will be trying it as soon as I run out of my Cascade.

Anonymous

I’ve been using straight white vinegar, and it works great. I’m going to try the borax and soda and see if that works any better.
JessicaW

Wow! I’d never thought of doing just vinegar. I bet it smells way better than dishwasher detergent (why do they all smell so vile? even the lemony ones leave the dishes smelling sticky, and I hate the smell of the dishwasher running… we prewash everything anyhow, so I know it’s the detergent. Ewwww…) I use white vinegar in my carpet shampooer which works better than anything I’ve found and doesn’t leave a build up in the carpet that attracts more dirt. THe kids always think the house smells like salad.