DH has forever been supportive of all homemade cleaning products EXCEPT dish detergent. I believe he had horrible nightmares of soap suds filling our entire kitchen :).
I had long given up on even thinking about making it at home, when all of a sudden what should I hear cross his lips? "Why don't you just make some?" - Huh? Wha? Who are you and what have you done with my husband?
But with my new found freedom I beelined it to the handy dandy internet to see what I could find.
The most helpful recipe I found here http://www.debtfreeadventure.com/2009/07/simple-effective-jabs-homemade-dishwasher-detergent-rinse-agent/.
Fortunately, earlier in the year I started making our laundry detergent using the recipe from this site http://www.thefamilyhomestead.com/laundrysoap.htm (though I use Ivory soap instead of Fels Naptha) so I already had Borax and Washing Powders but I didn't have any citric acid or kosher salt. So I trotted off to the kitchen to see what I could substitute.
Here's the recipe I ended up with:
1/2 cup Borax
1/2 cup Washing Powders
1/4 cup Cream of Tartar
1/4 cup Lemon Juice
Combine and store- use 1 Tablespoon per load
For the rinse aid I combined vinegar and lemon juice at a 1:1 ratio.
We've run 2 successful loads so far and look forward to many more!
