Changes in Homemade Dish Soap

I love vinegar! I love to use it when I clean, wash my clothes, cook a pot of greens, and until recently I put it in my homemade dish soap.  Boy, was I making a mistake by including it in the dish soap.  As you can tell, I use Dr. Bronner's Castile Soap as my dish soap base.  His granddaughter, Lisa, writes a wonderful blog I follow and offers a word of caution when mixing soap and vinegar.  It seems the acid in the vinegar will cause the oils that compose the soap to separate.  While it will not create a "bang", it will not be the best cleaner.

So, I have changed my dish washing method.  The soap makes plenty of suds and cleans my dishes well. Then, after I rinse the dishes, I dip them in a sink full of vinegar water to cut soap scum on the dishes as well as in the sink.  This vinegar water I reuse in the garden based on the site ways to garden with vinegar.

My favorite homemade dish soap.







 

 

 

1 cup castile soap (I use Dr. Bronner's)

 

1/4  cup hot water

 

1/2 teaspoon Kosher salt

 

2 teaspoons baking soda

 

30 drops essential oil ( I mix them up but this time I used tea tree and lavender.)

 

 

Dissolve the salt and baking soda in the hot water.

 

Mix into the castile soap; add the essential oils and give it a good shake.

 

 

 



 





Place in a mason jar with a dispenser.

I usually add 10 drops of a citrus based essential oil to my vinegar rinse for an additional sanitizing and grease cutting boost.