How to make homemade dishwasher – step-by-step Guide

You want to know how to make homemade dishwasher for hand washing? We propose a recipe to make dish soap with lemon and a few other ingredients.

Ingredients

• 5 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice.
• 3 cups of water.
• 4 tablespoons of grated neutral soap (Marseille or Lizard type) or 1 cup of powdered saponaria.
• 1 cup of white vinegar.
• 1 tablespoon of baking soda.

Making homemade dishwasher with lemon

1. Put the water and vinegar in a pot over medium heat.
2. As soon as it starts to boil, lower the heat and simmer, while mixing, for 2 or 3 minutes.
3. Increase the heat again to a medium point and add the soap powder or the grated soap, the lemon juice and the baking soda, all while stirring.
4. Continue mixing until all the ingredients are completely dissolved, thus achieving a homogeneous mixture.
5. Turn off the heat and remove the pot to let the dishwasher cool.
6. When it is at room temperature, you can store it in the bottle or container you want.

We bring you another idea to make an easy and effective homemade dishwasher. In this recipe we will use baking soda, in addition to some of the basic ingredients. These are the instructions for make homemade dishwasher with baking soda:

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons of baking soda.
• 1 liter of water.
• 4 tablespoons of grated Marseille or lizard type soap.
• 2 tablespoons of coarse salt.

Preparation of homemade dishwasher with baking soda

1. Grate the soap and bring the water to a boil in a saucepan or large pot.
2. When the water starts to boil, add the soap shavings and lower the heat to medium or low power and stir.
3. Mix well until it is as diluted as possible and leave the heat on low.
4. Add the coarse salt and baking soda while continuing to stir.
5. Mix until you see that everything is homogeneous.
6. Turn off the heat and remove the pot from the stove to allow the dishwasher to cool completely.
7. Once at room temperature, pour the dish soap into the bottle that is most practical for you.
8. At the end you can add about 10 drops of an essential oil that you like for its smell and that is also a disinfectant, such as lemon, orange, mint or lavender.

If you want to see more recipes that teach you how to make natural homemade dish soap to clean your dishes, glasses, cutlery, etc., take note because, below, we explain how to make homemade dish soap with oil.

Ingredients

• 7 tablespoons olive, sunflower or similar oil, whether used or not, but unburned.
• 1 and a half cups of water.
• 1 cup of powdered soapwort or its dried flowers and leaves or 4 tablespoons of grated neutral soap, Marseille soap or similar.

Preparation of homemade dish soap with oil

1. Bring the water to a boil and when it starts to boil, leave the heat on low.
2. Add the saponaria or soap and stir.
3. Mix until it is well dissolved or you see that everything is as integrated as possible.
4. Add the oil while continuing to stir.
5. Turn off the heat when you see a homogeneous mixture and remove the pot or saucepan from the stove so that it cools faster.
6. When it is at room temperature, pour the dish soap into the jar or bottle in which you are going to store it. If you want to make sure that it is very liquid and you want to add more disinfectant power, you can add more water and also half a tablespoon of 70º or 96º alcohol.

Another good option for washing dishes by hand is to prepare a homemade dishwashing soap with aloe vera or aloe vera, since this will help you clean the dishes while taking care of your hands. Follow these instructions to make this natural homemade dish soap:

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons of grated lizard soap, from Marseille, from Castile.
• The gel of 2 small or 1 medium aloe leaf. If you use purchased, then it will be between 1 and 2 large coffee cups of aloe vera gel.
• 1 tablespoon of baking soda.
• 3 cups of water.

Steps to make homemade dish soap with aloe vera

1. Get the gel from the aloe vera leaves and keep it aside in a bowl.
2. Bring the water to a boil, but when it reaches the boiling point, lower the heat to minimum and add the grated Marseille soap.
3. Mix until well dissolved.
4. Without stopping stirring, add the baking soda and continue stirring.
5. When everything is very homogeneous, turn off the heat and remove the pot from the stove.
6. Add the aloe vera gel and stir again until everything is integrated.
7. Let the homemade dishwashing liquid mixture with aloe vera finish cooling.
8. Pour the cold soap into the bottle you have chosen.

Are you wondering how to make homemade Mistol type dishwasher? With this option you can get a similar one with very good results. Take note of what you need and how to make dishwashing soap with white vinegar:

Ingredients

• 10 large tablespoons of white vinegar.
• 1 liter of hot water.
• 4 large tablespoons of grated neutral soap (white, Marseille, Castile or Lizard type).
• 10 drops of lemon or mint essential oil. You can also use a squeeze of freshly squeezed lemon instead.

Steps to prepare dishwasher with white vinegar

1. Grate the soap.
2. Heat the water over the fire.
3. Pour the soap into the already hot water, over low heat, and stir for 5 minutes without letting the mixture boil.
4. Turn off the heat and remove the pot from the stove.
5. Add the white vinegar and the essential oil you have chosen.
6. Mix everything well again until you see that it is integrated.
7. Let it cool completely.
8. Pour it into the bottle you are going to store it in.

In addition to preparing this recipe, we recommend using white vinegar alone to soak the most difficult-to-clean utensils for an hour due to accumulated grease and then wash them with this soap. Here we explain more about How to wash dishes with vinegar.

To finish, we propose one last homemade dishwashing recipe but this time we will use liquid glycerin or glycerin soap. Write down how to make homemade dish soap with glycerin soap:

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup grated glycerin soap or liquid glycerin.
• 3 cups of water.
• 1 cup of white vinegar.
• 2 tablespoons of fresh lemon juice.
• 1 tablespoon baking soda.

Making homemade dishwasher with glycerin

• Bring the water and vinegar to a boil and as soon as it starts to boil, leave the heat on medium power.
• Start by adding the glycerin soap little by little and continuing to stir.
• When you see it homogeneous, add the baking soda while still stirring.
• Seeing that the baking soda has also dissolved, add the lemon while continuing to stir.
• As soon as you see the mixture completely homogeneous, stop stirring and turn off the heat.
• Remove the pot from the stove and wait for it to cool before pouring the homemade dish soap into the bottle.

If you liked these recipes to learn how to make homemade dishwasher we recommend you take a look at this other article on How to make liquid soap.

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