Fabulous dish washing liquid with a gorgeous natural orange scent, chuffed to pieces with this outstandingly successful and minutes to make recipe. Not only is this green and environmentally friendly it also knocks spots of the artificially chemically produced dish washing liquids, along with the extra bonus of being half the cost. This recipe only takes five minutes to make and lasts a busy family around a month.
Making time 5 minutes
This is another great addition to my 1920's housewife life style where a little elbow grease can cut down on household bills and chemicals in the environment, give you a little more of a physical work out and an overall feel good factor that not only am I saving money, primarily all this is to help lower my families carbon footprint on mother earth, the additional boost is how much I am learning about that we do not really need very much in order to live a life with less demand on the buy me world and landfill.
Ingredients
(makes 1 ltr)
Luxurious Super Strength
Total Cost £2.64
1 ltr boiling water, just off the heat
1/3 bar of Dr Bonners Magic soap grated
3/4 cup 180ml orange liquid castile soap
7 tsp washing soda crystals
Medium Strength
Total Cost £1.96
1 ltr boiling water just off the heat
1/3 bar Dr Bonners Magic soap grated
90ml orange liquid castile soap
7 tsp washing soda crystals
Bring the 1 ltr of water up to a boil and take off the heat, add the grated Dr Bonners soap, liquid castile soap and gently stir together, add the soda crystals and stir in until dissolved.
Place in your glass bottle and leave over night to settle, the soap will thicken up to a white jelly like consistency, if you feel it is too thick just dilute with upto 500ml more of hot boiled water. This gorgeous soap works at its best with hot water.
12 hours later your liquid dish washing liquid will look like this and you are ready to go.
My first attempts at using natural ingredients was not as successful as this, I first tried my London Nan's method which was just soda washing crystals, this did do a great job cutting fat but not quite good enough and it left a residue on glass which made me question why and was that safe to ingest? Compared to the artificial chemicals in manufactured products yes this was a lot lower on the toxic scale and being natural a better bet, but I was not totally happy hence the quest to try other recipes.
I will work on other variations of this recipe in order to bring the cost down keeping the cleaning quality and let you know how I get on.
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