Leave it to some goober in gooberment to get the big idea that we lil peons don't need clean dishes anymore. Or that if we use the good stuff to get our dishes clean we don't have enough sense to dispose of the gray water correctly and it might make more algae grow in some stream somewhere. Goodness, ya would think they had better things to do. But apparently not. This is an article on how the makers of our cleaning products are now taking out the ingredient that makes them work. BUT restaurants can still get the good stuff. Yeah well they want to remove the sodium triphosphate from my dish soap or automatic dish tabs, so be it, I will just go to the near by hardware store and get a big ole box of TSP and add a teaspoon to the dishwasher and be done with it. I have started noticing that my Dawn even does not work like it used to. Not sure how many of you make your own soap and laundry detergent and such but I have in the past. Laundry detergent is really easy to make but combining products you can get really cheap.
For homemade laundry detergent you will need Fels naptha soap, ivory or Zote.Also you will need a box of washing soda, not baking soda. Washing soda is sodium carbonate and baking soda is sodium bicarbonate. So make sure it is sodium carbonate, washing soda. You can find it in most large stores in the laundry isle. You can also find the borax there. The recipe is as follows:
1/3 bar fels naphtha, grated fine
1/2 cup washing soda
1/2 cup borax
Grate soap into a large kettle and add about 2quarts of water. On low heat stir till soap is dissolved well. I do this with a whisk. Add the washing soda and borax to the water and remove from the heat and stir really well till dissolved. When it is dissolved good add about another quart of water to the soap an stir well. Transfer the soap to a bucket that is capable of holding 3 gallon or so. When you have the soap in your bucket stir in another 5 quarts of water and mix well. Let stand 24 hours before use. It will thicken a good bit. Once it sits for the 24 hours you can stir it again and pour into a jug to use. You will only need about a scant half cup for a normal size load of clothes.It can also be used as a pretreatment. When I make my own I add the detergent to the washer as the water runs in and about a teaspoon of TSP(tri- sodium phosphate) for heavy soiled work clothes. Normal light cleaning I skip the TSP. I can make 2 gallon of laundry soap for less than $3. AND I can add the quality ingredients that make it work. This detergent does not have a scent and it does not suds. When the kids were small I made my own lye soap and used it for everything cleaning. Grate the lye soap fine and run in the blender with a small amount of water to make a thick liquid. I used it for dishes, laundry, mixed it in more water to mop floors.A rag dipped in lye soap water and wrung out will get nicotine off anything including windows. Yes windows! Wipe dry with paper towels.
Now to dig in my recipe idiot book and find my lye soap recipe and make me some soon. Till next time, blessings from the McGuire homestead.
Stella
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I told myself that when my supply of laundry soap runs out that I would start making it at home.
Going next Friday and stockin' up!
In our area I can't find the washing soda and half the time I can't find the borax. Don't know why. I went looking the other day, but no luck. Will keep trying. Thanks for sharing. Blessings jane
the 'they' are our friends.. so they think. This stuff drives me nuts too. Things cost more for less of it, and it doesn't work as good.. UGH.. this week I noticed the toilet paper is getting shorter! Thought I was nuts but sure enough my $1.00 on sale single role of TP was a whole finger width shorter than the last one I got for less $ a couple weeks ago.
I'm sure 'they' also 'improved' it.
:( Maybe some day we can pack all this junk up on a 'bullet train' and send it to California where they like that junk.
I thought it was just me...that maybe the company had a batch or so of their Dawn not turnout just right, because like you, what we are using here does not work as well as it used to. Thank you for posting this...time to root around to see what we need to get, so can make our own. Dang, if this gooberment person did their own dishes, maybe they wouldn't have been so fast about taking the 'working' ingredient out.
A pretty good stain pretreatment is 1/2 cup ammonia, 1/2 cup Dawn, and 1/2 cup water mixed in a spray bottle. This works as good as the bought stuff for me!
A pretty good stain pretreatment is 1/2 cup ammonia, 1/2 cup Dawn, and 1/2 cup water mixed in a spray bottle. This works as good as the bought stuff for me!
Hi yall, after I got to lookin on my huge tub o dishwasher tabs the dam things I bout are phosphate free an i got enough to last over a year. I kept wonderin why i was gettin bowls out sometimes that had stuff stuck in em, I thought i had had this long enough taht it had the good stuff in it but heck no, so when i ran the dishwasher this evening i added some TSP to the lil cup.
And ya know i have noticed lately taht when ya squirt dawn in a greasy skillet or something an run water in it, it used to turn milky colored and break the grease up, nope not now, so amm gonna jus make me some lye soap, whizz on em all lol
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