DIY Soap for the Dishawasher, The Dishes, and your Hands

 

I participated in the Carnival for Natural Parenting – and this month the topic was family recipes.  One of the recipes was an awesome DIY 3 in 1 Hand, dish, dish soap, and dishwasher soap from Jennifer (@HybridRastaMama) of  The Natural Parenting Network .  I want to try it out.

It’s a very easy and very natural recipe.  I deviated from her recipe just a bit, cause I used what I had around the house.

Ingredients:

1. An 8 oz bar of Kiss My Face Olive oil soap which I cut in half.
2. 8 cups of water infused with lime (for 24 hours)
3. Bergamot Essential Oil

Directions:

1. 

I cut the soap in half and put half in the freezer

2. 

I shaved the soap.  Jennifer used a cheese grater, but since I didn’t have one of those, I used a knife.  It was easy to shave since the bar was frozen.

3. 

I heated up the lime infused water to boiling and then turned off the heat.  I put in the soap, and maybe 10 dashes of the Bergamot Essential Oil and mixed aggressively with a wire whisk.  I allowed it to sit covered overnight.  My mixture was homogenous, so I then put the mixture in a mason jar, a washed out Palmolive bottle and a hand soap dispenser, and used.  If your mixture isn’t homogenous, then aggressively mix with a wire whisk and allow it to sit (covered) another 8-10 hours.

4.

5.  So then i tried it

Those are not spots, they are etching in the glass (due to almost 11 years of use).  They are pristine!

Thanks so much Jennifer for the awesome – and green recipe!

This post was created for Change The World Wednesday at Reduce Footprints.  This weeks theme is eco-friendly cleaners