homemade liquid dish soap

So this last weekend we finally ran out of our dish washing soap. Do you know what this means? Yes… I got to make my own soap!

I have tried once already, but I poured the soap into a bottle while it was still hot, so it sort of melted the bottle.  I also made it with castile soap shavings with water and it got really lumpy, like egg whites almost. So that was a fail. We bought new dish soap and here we are again!

This time I bought some Dr. Bronner’s Liquid Castile soap from GNC. I mixed it with some water and I think I actually really like it. It seems watery, and it doesn’t sud that much. But it does go a long way, and my dishes were clean even though I didn’t feel like I was using enough soap. I filled my bottle about 2/3 the way full with the castile soap, and then the rest with water.

Both of the recipes I tried are found on this website. I think the reason the first one didn’t turn out was because I didn’t use enough water. But the second option is a lot easier. I still haven’t done the math on how cheap this is compared to the regular store bought kind… but I feel better about “making my own” even if it’s a little more expensive as long as I feel like it works just as well or better. :)