Dishwasher Soap

[MaryLang]

I've always had a hard time finding a good dishwasher soap. Our dishwasher is very very old and I really need something tough to get things clean enough. So I had resorted to chemicals in there. Until this week, I bought some Eco's dishwashing soap, but that alone didn't do the job, so I sprinkled some Borax over the dishes before putting a little squirt of the soap in. Wow! My dishes sparkle, do you think Borax alone would be enough to get the dishes thoroughly cleaned?

[jewelsJZ]

I'm not sure but if you try it, let us know how it works! Interesting.

[Gingercat]

I use one spoonful of borax, one of baking soda, 1/4 of a spoonful of coarse sea salt and 2 drops of grapefruit essential oil (you can use any citrus EO you like, lemon is also great). You put all these in the detergent compartment. For rinsing I use plain white vinegar.
The dishes get cleaned very well but they do not sparkle like they did when I used a commercial detergent. But at least I'm not eating chemicals

[talia rose]

I would not use Borax on dishes as it can be toxic
http://www.greenfootsteps.com/borax-information.html

[AngelBee]

Originally Posted by talia rose

I would not use Borax on dishes as it can be toxic
http://www.greenfootsteps.com/borax-information.html

Didn't know this. Thank you for posting.

[ronjenspain]

when we had a dishwasher a month ago

I used 1c borax,1c washing soda and 4 packets of lemon koolaid(no sugar) and then for each load I used a Tablespoon I also make my laundry soap from some of the same ingred. on and in the rise thing I put whitye vinn with a couple drops of lemon ess oil

[Drummer's Wife]

Have you tried Ecover Tablets? They work well, even though I have hard water.

[Carma]

I also use Ecover powder. It works much better than other green dishwasher soap I tried.

Carma

[mmmomx2]

I use the Method tablets. We have hard well water and this is the only green detergent I've found that will actually get our dishes clean.

[GardenStream]

I'm using the Reeva detergent from Aldi. Before this, the only green detergent I was happy with was the Ecover. The Aldi stuff is so much cheaper and it has the same ingredients.

[mlh]

Thanks for starting this thread! I have always struggled with finding a green way to get my dishes clean in the dishwasher...I am excited to try some of these suggestions!