recipe for homemade dish soap?

**mommy2lexi&lucas** · 12-06-2011, 07:40 AM

Anyone have a recipe for homemade dish soap (like dawn?)...I see another person posted a link to a youtube vid. for a recipe, but it uses Octagon soap and I can't find that anywhere....any other ideas?

**brenda67** · 12-06-2011, 06:33 PM

I use a empty Dawn dish foam bottle:

3-Tablespoons Dawn dishsoap
2/3 cup water

stir very gently a couple of times to mix.

I double the recipe to fill my bottle..Hope this helps!

**josantoro** · 01-12-2012, 07:08 PM

it is bad enough using the dollar store dish soap (suds disappear) without trying to make it myself!! I draw the line somewhere. DH tried to convince me to use mashed up bar soap but I vigorously declined.

**mrbmom77** · 01-12-2012, 08:24 PM

How important is it that you have suds? This recipe does not suds at all but gets everything clean without making my son itch like crazy.

1 1/2 cups hot water
1/2 cup soap (I use a body wash I made with Tom's of Maine Sensitive, glycerin, and distilled water, but I think anything you like will do)
1 Tbsp. washing soda
1 Tbsp. vinegar
1/8 tsp. tea tree oil

I keep baking soda handy for anything that needs a little extra scrub.

HTH