[larson]

I have recently been reading about people who don't use detergent at all and simply use baking soda + vinegar (in the rinse cycle) or BS+tea tree oil/lavendar oil.

I am very interested in this idea since I currently use baking soda, vinegar and borax for almost all of my household cleaning. However, I did try BS/borax for my dishwasher detergent and wasn't impressed with the results. So, I do believe in trying it for a while, but I have decided that one cannot survive on BS alone.

I have previously heard not good things about adding vinegar to the rinse cycle when washing dipes, so I'm curious about using that as well.

 

[SEEPAE]

if you search "no-detergent" you will pull up a LOT of threads on this, and look back in may/june of 2004 you will see a few threads about me starting with BS and how it went for me.
A year later, still using baking soda and its still going great! Any time I have tried to reintroduce detergent it has been a bad outcome.
We had stink basically from the get-go, and this was our only cure.

 

[NicknJulesMom]

I use baking soda and vinegar only... no detergent here. It works great for us!

 

[larson]

Thanks for advice. I'll search the threads and look forward to giving it a try.

Just one question right now, though--do either of you use bac out on poopy dipes (spray on after rinsing indiv. dipes)? I'm just wondering if this would make a difference in using the BS?

THANKS!

 

[SEEPAE]

nope I dont use anything but baking soda and water.

 

[mom2orionplus1]

I use baking soda in my soak cycle and baking soda plus All Free in my wash.

 

[Momto2boysNagirl]

I use just baking soda. I had some major stink issues and this has cleared it up for me! Sometimes I add some lavendar oil in to make them smell pretty

 

[larson]

Quote:

Originally Posted by SEEPAE if you search "no-detergent" you will pull up a LOT of threads on this, and look back in may/june of 2004 you will see a few threads about me starting with BS and how it went for me. A year later, still using baking soda and its still going great! Any time I have tried to reintroduce detergent it has been a bad outcome. We had stink basically from the get-go, and this was our only cure.

Sara, I have searched the archives but am having no luck finding these posts--can I search the archives by date? or would that take forever to page through?

Maybe I'm just not doing it right!

 

[SEEPAE]

http://www.mothering.com/discussions...earchid=740734

and the specific thread of mine http://www.mothering.com/discussions...t=no-detergent

 

[larson]

Quote:

Originally Posted by SEEPAE http://www.mothering.com/discussions...earchid=740734 and the specific thread of mine http://www.mothering.com/discussions...t=no-detergent

THANK YOU!

 

[ccasanova]

my dd might have been one of the short few, but she had MAJOR rash issues when i started using vinegar and BS inthe rinse cycle. I mean major, blistering, bleeding and very bad stuff

As soon as i suspected, i washed all her newly washed dipes again with no vinegar and BS and it cleared up right away. i don't know which one of the two did it, but we definitly can't use those in the rinse. i just put a few drops of TTO in the rinse when it is necessary. HTH!