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This month’s homemade homemaking recipe is for an easy homemade liquid dish soap!
I’ll be the first to confess that in this season of life I mostly use my dishwasher. With a toddler and a preschooler, my dishes dirty fast, and neither of my girls are quite old enough to help me hand wash–yet. 
But there are times I simply need liquid dish soap–whether it be for soaking a grimy pot or pan or for quickly washing a kitchen tool I may need to re-use within the same recipe.
And this homemade liquid soap recipe couldn’t be get any easier! I will admit that you may need to use slightly more than a conventional dish soap, and, although it does create suds, once you’ve soaked your dishes for a while, the suds will slowly disappear.
But it still gets your dishes clean–with NO toxins found in many conventional dish soaps (like endocrine-disrupting phthalates, which can potentially lower sperm count or even contribute to liver cancer!).
Without further ado, here’s my recipe for an easy-peasy homemade liquid dish soap!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup liquid castile soap (unscented or whatever your favorite scent is…I like using tea tree for the added antibacterial properties.)
- 1/8 cup water
- 4 drops essential oil scent of choice (I use orange, as I make this into a citrus soap.)
- 1 tsp. homemade all-purpose citrus cleaner (1tsp. of vinegar can be an alternate here–but I simply LOVE my homemade citrus cleaner, and I always have it on hand. It also makes for a nice addition to this citrus soap.)
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what exactly is liquid castile soap and where can i get it cheaply?
It’s a chemical-free soap made with essential oils, etc. I get mine at GNC or my local healthfood store. I *think* some Targets also may carry it. It may seem pricey, but it lasts a LONG time b/c of how concentrated it is.
Hi, I’ve been researching making my own soap and was wondering if you’ve noticed any curdling if you use vinegar as that’s what a lot of people have mentioned having a problem with, with similar formulas?
I have not noticed curdling….the amount of vinegar in this recipe is very small.
I squeeze fresh lime and freeze in 1T spoon amounts in the freezer for off season use. My husband happen to grab the lime peels and tossed them in a pan boiling them with water and a splash of vinegar. We used that water to mix with the Castile soap. Gave the soap a nice citrus smell and I was able to get everything from the lime.
I love that idea!! Thanks for sharing!
procedure of dish washing bar & liquid
I’m sorry, but I don’t think I understand your question?
hi your dish soap is ok but we got a 1.00 store for dish soap after i make this of yours its cost more than a buck ty
The point of this soap is the chemical free properties. Yes, you can get cheap soap but what are you putting on your dishes and what is soaking into your hands and what is going into our limited water supply.
Thank you, Jennifer! That is the point I was trying to make. One baby step at a time…
The point is that is is toxic-free, but if you prefer $1 soap, you can buy that!
It is real simple when it comes to going all natural. 1. Most things will cost you some money in the beginning BUT the amount of product you end up with is ALWAYS going to be cheper than what you buy in the store plus you don’t to run to store if you run out as you can always have extra on hand that is made and/or make some fairly quickly. I make my own liquid laundry soap using the Duggar’s Family recipe and Purex Crystals the cost per load is .05 cents versus the cheap stuff which is .10 cents per load. Yes I had to invest some in the beginning but now I have enough ingredients to last me for a year just making the liquid laundry soap. Also you don’t have to use the Castille soap either Fel’s Naptha works and has the same results as the Castile soap which costs more. If you do research on DIY things you will find that the first few that you make yes it costs more but that is because you have to invest a little bit of money at the beginning to get cheaper costing results in the end. My Granddaughter has extremely sensitive sikn and has since birth and nothing I make homemade has ever caused her to break out in a rash like other products have done including sensitive wipes for babies. I make my own and she has no problems with the wipes I make at all. It is all about the added chemicals that are not needed that we focus on. Also if you worried about cost essential oil’s can also be optional in most recipes as it is in my liquid laundry soap. Just use the citrus cleaner in place of some of the water different recipes call for and walah you have a scented homemade product.
I tried this, however, I must be doing something wrong, as I can not get clean dishes, it seems to leave a greasy resdual on everything?
So how do you get this to work properly ?
I meant residual not resdual
Hi Arif. First let me ask you this; are you using the essentials oils for the scent?
Hi Tracie;
No, just Dr. Bronner’s Tea tree oil castile soap, water and vinegar, nothing else.
Hi Arif
When you add a scented/non-scented oil in the homemade dish soap recipe/any homemade recipe you can get the greasy residual feeling. Use a non-oil based scent then use it & see if that works for you. I only use the citrus recipe above and omit the oils all together. Hard water can cause for the oil not to get risnsed off as well. Hope this helps have any more ?’s let me know. Been making my own stuff for over 20yrs. now. Been sick so excuse all typo’s. Thank you
The reason that you are getting the greasy residue on your dishes is because of the vinegar that’s mixed with the castile soap. Mixing vinegar and castile soap together separates the oils. Here is more information on this here:
http://lisa.drbronner.com/?p=292
Thought that would help anyone that was having this issue.
Also with this recipe for dishwwashing soap you can add 1/2 tsp. glycerine to the recipe and it will ceate more suds if that is what you like as well. I have made my own bubble bath for my Granddaughter with her having extremely sensitive skin so what I did was use baby tear free, hypoallergenic, and dye free body wash and added 1 tsp glycerin to it and the glycerin it what helps create the bubbles.
Thank you for this! I’d love to find out about your homemade all-purpose citrus cleaner, but the link doesn’t seem to work and a search of your site didn’t turn anything up. Could you please share this recipe?
It should work now! Sorry. I was transferring my site over and it wasn’t working for a few days. It should be there now when you click the link!
Great! Thank you!
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