

The recipes I found online all included some ingredients that I would not use for hand washing dishes, some cleaner combinations that neutralize one another, and some good green cleaning ingredients. The real task is sorting through them all to separate the good, the bad, and ineffective. I started my quest for a non-toxic homemade dish detergent recipe at the mecca of all homemade cleaner recipes… Pinterest! Just type in home dish detergent and hundreds of recipes will pop up. The homemade cleaner has to be cost effective.The homemade cleaner has to work as well as my favorite store bought dish washing liquid.The homemade cleaner has to rate an A on the EWG scale.I have three standards cleaning recipes need to meet: I set out to create an easy, affordable homemade dish detergent. Knowing how ingredient interact keeps me from combing ingredients that neutralize one another or have dangerous reactions.Knowing how ingredients work allow me to make the most effective cleaners.This initial background research is important for two reasons: (Hello, I’m Bren and I’m a former college instructor who loves a good research project. When I set out to make a new homemade cleaner recipe I start by researching cleaning recipes, ingredients, and their interactions. It’s become my most requested natural cleaning tutorial, so I began to investigate! Over the years I have created two different natural dishwasher detergent recipes, but I had never made my own homemade dish detergent for hand washing dishes.

I love creating and testing homemade cleaner recipes. They don’t cost you a thing and help us bring you all natural cleaning tutorials.

Learn two simple ways to make liquid dish detergent and get my recommendations for what you should use to hand wash dishes. These two easy recipes for homemade dish detergent for hand washing make enough washing up liquid for 16 sinks of dishes for around $2.75 and rate an A on the Environmental Working Group (EWG) Healthy Cleaning scale.
