DIY liquid and gel dishwashing detergents

Just a few years ago, housewives happily used household chemicals in the fight to keep dishes clean, without thinking about the composition of such an effective product and its effect on the body. Today, people are trying in every possible way to protect themselves from the effects of negative factors, so they increasingly prefer to prepare dishwashing detergent with their own hands. It can be a soft gel or a very active liquid, based on laundry or baby soap, mustard, soda, essential oils, vodka, glycerin and much more. Practice shows that such drugs are even superior in effectiveness to their ready-made analogues, but a natural remedy may also have a number of disadvantages.

Advantages and disadvantages of homemade mixtures

Before you make a suitable dishwashing liquid with your own hands, you need to compare the pros and cons of the approach, make sure of the practicality, effectiveness and convenience of the chosen method.

The positive aspects of homemade products include the following points.

1. Environmental friendliness of the components used. Homemade preparations do not cause a negative impact on the environment and water quality; they are completely washed off from dishes and do not accumulate in the body.
2. No harmful ingredients. This completely natural product does not cause allergies and does not cause skin irritation.Of course, provided that the components used do not cause similar phenomena in everyday life.
3. All components are accessible and low cost. Usually they can be found in the kitchen of any housewife, so if necessary, you just need to prepare a little more of the composition, and not run to the store.
4. If desired, it is possible to prepare a whole arsenal of products that differ in their properties. Some will be used to clean cups from dark deposits, others will be used to clean baking sheets and pans, and others will be used to wash off fat.

Against the backdrop of such positive aspects, we should not forget about the difficulties that we will have to face when making household products at home.

Advice

If you have definitely decided that you will make your own dishwashing liquid, start with the most gentle and mild products. For most stains, their cleaning capabilities will be quite sufficient. Once you've mastered the basic recipes, you can choose something more intense to get rid of stubborn greasy stains or clean tricky surfaces.

Gentle dishwashing products based on ancient recipes

Such folk remedies cope well with standard stains and a small amount of fat. They are often based on laundry or baby soap, soda, and hot water.

• Soap gel made from glycerin and laundry soap.To prepare the washing mass, you need to take two tablespoons of grated brown soap, 8 tablespoons of glycerin, and a liter of hot water. To enhance the product, you can add two tablespoons of vodka. Pour the soap into a glass of water, mix and place in a water bath to dissolve. While stirring the thick mixture, gradually add all the water. Having received a homogeneous mass, add glycerin and vodka. The finished liquid is poured into a bottle with a dispenser. Once it sets and turns into a gel, you can use it as needed.
• Soda based cleaning mixture. To make a good universal remedy, take a glass of baby soap, ground into shavings, five tablespoons of baking soda, a glass of hot water, a few drops of your favorite essential oil. All ingredients are placed in a blender and blended until smooth. The finished product will look like a paste, which in practice is very convenient to use.

Despite such a soft texture and a simple set of components, these folk remedies do an excellent job of removing dirt. And the product, which contains soda, does an excellent job of removing yellow stains on the surface of the bathtub and sink, allowing you to update the appearance of your plumbing fixtures.

Mustard dishwashing soap

High performance dish detergents

Even from improvised means it is possible to prepare a very effective cleaning product. You just need to choose the right ingredients and their proportions.

• Concentrated gel paste.We take laundry soap, at least two tablespoons of fine shavings, four tablespoons of ammonia, three tablespoons of mustard powder, a liter of hot water.Additionally, you will need baking soda - three tablespoons. Dissolve the soap in hot water and cool the homogeneous mass. Add mustard, mix, add ammonia, leave for 10 minutes. Mix again and add soda. We leave the finished product for at least two hours and use it for its intended purpose. Before making such a composition, you need to open the window, otherwise you can be poisoned by caustic ammonia.
• Washing liquid for spraying. For a glass of hot water, take a tablespoon of 3% hydrogen peroxide and soda. We combine all the components, mix thoroughly and use in everyday life. The range of applications of such economic composition is quite wide. It can be used to treat dishes, stoves, tables and other household surfaces.
• Mustard soap. Craftsmen have long learned to wash greasy dishes in mustard water (a teaspoon of powder per liter of liquid). But special mustard soap gives a more pronounced result. To prepare it, we take mustard powder, which we dilute to the state of sour cream with lukewarm water. Add a little soda to the finished product and mix the composition. Apply the resulting paste to severe stains. You don’t even have to rub the product hard; all the fat will come off on its own. But you can only work with such a composition while wearing rubber gloves.

It is important to understand that even mild folk remedies can cause unpleasant consequences if you neglect their production techniques or thoughtlessly experiment with dosages.