If you’re looking to make your own dish soap at home this is a friendly, all natural homemade recipe that smells really good. I personally stopped using so many essential oils in our house because those too can be harmful to your health if not used cautiously.
How To Make Dish Soap At Home
Are you familiar with my plain ol’ water cleaning method? It’s sometimes easier and healthier to clean with just hot water. I do this with certain dishes that we use but, it totally depends. Not gross. Just simplified and makes life easier. I wouldn’t do it with a caked on food dish, obviously.
You’ll Need:
- castile soap (I prefer the one with essential oil already in it)
- lavendar and eucalyptus oil if not in the bottle pre-mixed
- distilled water
- reusable bottle
Lavender and Eucalyptus are antibacterial and anti-fungal, so this is a perfect way to clean your kitchens naturally.
Now if you wanted to buy the Castile soap with essential oils already built in, just go to Home Goods, Marshalls, TJMaxx and look in the beauty section where the soap is. You can normally find them for less money and stock up to do the dishes chemical free.
I recommend squirting it in the sink when you’re done with the dishes to clean up all the bacteria, rinse, dry with cloth.
I’m super lazy when it comes to cleaning these days, so I just make things as simple as possible.
- squirt, scrub, rinse (did you know it’s easier to scrub certain dishes like spoons, butterknives, forks, bowls with your hands)
And, the fancy thing about using Castile soap (Dr. Jacobs is my favorite) is that it doesn’t dry out your hands. The soap is refreshing, smells good.
Dish Cleaning Tips
Stick with the minimal vibes in your kitchen for easier cleaning. This helps get the task at hand done super quick, leaving time for you to enjoy the fancier things in life. I’m not a hater of doing dishes, but I certainly don’t want to be spending all of my time at the sink getting water everywhere…
- load dinnerware, cups used throughout the day in the dishwasher immediately- avoid piling dishes up in the sink
- don’t wait until the dishwasher is completely full to run- take it as you go…if there’s enough in there to wash a load, do it. you’re not saving money on water by doing bigger loads. in fact, you’re wasting more water
- unload after the dishes have dried completely- I give it an extra hour or wait until the next morning to empty
- wash the dishwasher with a splash of baking soda from time to time- avoid using too much vinegar because it will ruin some machines
- if you don’t have a dishwasher design a system that prevents overwhelm and overflow. the sink isn’t a place to store dirty plates and pans, it’s a space to wash the dishes. so, if you’re not washing immediately, create an area they can be stored in until you’re ready to wash (one side of the basin is fine, not both)…avoid pile up and do immediately
Aside from using Castile soap to clean basically everything in our home, baking soda and white distilled vinegar are my go to’s for simplifying everyday house cleaning too!
More Cleaning Tips
- 3 things that clean everything
- fast and easy refrigerator cleaning
- how to make your kitchen smell good after stinky dinners
What are your favorite kitchen cleaning products? No Tox Please…until next time.
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