How to prepare safe dishwashing detergent
Do It Yourself Educational Program / / December 19, 2019
A couple of simple steps, and your kitchen will be the most natural dishwashing detergent that is perfectly removes dirt and leaves no unpleasant traces.
Why do you need a homemade dish detergent
According to the Nationwide Association for Genetic SecurityCan be dangerous detergents for dishes?Many synthetic dishwashing liquid can not only overdry skin, but also cause allergies, asthma and other health problems.
To avoid trouble, you can cook your own hands detergent from safe ingredients.
What good is this recipe
Most of the recipes from the Internet are nonsense. detergents prepared according to him often mylyatsya have the structure of the country and left on the dishes filthy film. Of course, the result is influenced by many factors such as water hardness. But crucial nevertheless has a composition.
Often the cause of the failure is that you are offered a mix mutually exclusive components. For example, vinegar and soap based on olive oil. By themselves, these ingredients have great effect: the vinegar helps get rid of limescale and soap cleans the dishes.
But vinegar - is acid and soap - a mixture of lye and fat. They react, and you get an oily and non-uniform whitish something that leaves a disgusting plaque on everything you try to wash with it.
But the dishwashing liquid does not make you suffer any of the cooking time, or after its application. Instead, you get a good alternative to detergents.
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cup boiling water;
- ¼ cup minced solid olive soap;
- 1 tablespoon of soda ash;
- ¼ cup olive liquid soap;
- 10-30 drops of essential oil if desired.
In the original recipe It proposed to use castile soap. If you can not find it, take a natural soap based on olive oil, or even a child, or household.
To choose a really natural soap, follow these tips:
- Check the composition of the. Names of the ingredients should be in Russian. Primarily indicated saponified oil, and then - the other components. Ensure that no soap preservatives and sodium lauryl sulfate.
- Please rate the appearance of soap. It should not be bright or transparent. Its shape is often quite ugly.
- Do not trust the smell. The presence of essential oils or fragrances that mimic natural products, does not indicate the quality of the soap.
Soda ash can be purchased at hardware stores. However, you can try to replace it, and ordinary food.
Of the essential oils is better to use tea tree oil as it has an antibacterial effect. But you can try any combination of oil, the smell of which will find enjoyable.
preparation
Fill The crushed to a fine grater solid soap boiling water and stir.
When the soap is dissolved, add the baking soda and stir again.
Then pour the liquid soap and then stir the resulting composition.
When the liquid has cooled, add the essential oils.
Pour the liquid into an empty bottle or any convenient container.
Finished substance will look like a real tool for washing dishes and have the same effect. It foams well, remarkably removes the dirt from dishes and perfectly washed away, leaving behind a nasty film or residue. And yet she had a great flavor!
Initially the tool will be very liquid, but it gradually thickens. If it seems too thick as it should shake it: it will return to a gel-like state. In an extreme case, dilute means small amount of water.
The consistency of the means may be different from the hardness of the water you use, and other factors. Experiment with the amount of soda, until you find one that is perfect for you.
Important! A sponge and detergent should not be exposed to excess moisture. It is very well mylitsya itself, but with the addition of water loses its sudsing.