Automatic Dishwasher Detergents:

Lavender Lift

2 cups washing soda
2 cups borax
20 drops lavender essential oil

Blend all ingredients together, making sure to incorporate the oil into the powders and store. Use 2 T per load of dishes for a heavenly smelling, natural kitchen for just pennies.

Super Easy 2 cups washing soda
1 cup borax
1 cup baking soda

This stores well, so you can double or triple it. Use 2 T per load and reduce it to 1 ½ T if you find residue on your glasses.

Citrus Sparkle

2 cups washing soda
2 cups borax
6 T citrus acid poweder (also known as “sour salt”)
25 drops grapefruit essential oil

Combine well and store. Use 2 T per load of dishes.

Borax is a combination of water, oxygen, sodium, and boron. It is a powder sold in the laundry aisle of grocery stores. 20 Mule Team is a popular brand.

Washing soda is sodium carbonate, and is also known as soda ash. Arm & Hammer sells it in the laundry aisle.

(Guess I shouldn’t have dropped out of Miss Zerkel’s Chemistry class in High School – who knew how I’d be using chemistry, on the Internet, in a blog or facebook!)

Citrus Acid is available in a powdered form in health food stores; in stores that cater to soap makers as well as home brewers and even vitamin stores.

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