DIY ZERO WASTE DISHWASHER POWDER | Kate Arnell
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Happy Friday!
This is how I make our DIY zero waste dishwasher powder recipe.
Enjoy!
As always, please use common sense and precautions when handling washing soda. It can cause eye irritation so I generally avoid touching it.
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Bicarbonate of Soda / Baking Soda
- I now have it available to me from my local package-free bulk store but I have bought it in a box or paper up until very recently.
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+ Washing Soda / Soda Crystals
- I DIY mine now but have bought some by Ecodoo in the past. I simply emailed BigGreenSmile.com and asked for no plastic packaging after placing my order.
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+ Citric Acid (in a cardboard box)
- I now have this available to me from bulk but have bought in a cardboard box previously
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+ Sea Salt
I buy mine from bulk.
+ White Vinegar
I buy mine from a local supermarket where it is sold in a glass bottle. The plastic lids I save and take to my mother-in-law's place when visiting as her local curb collection accepts them for recycling.
Hoping to have white vinegar available from bulk very soon!
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Your so organic on camera, it's like a friend has personally recorded advice for me.
Just found your channel, it's awesome to find a zero waste/organic-y person that doesn't take everything so seriously and is not super intense about spirituality in every video; not that that's bad, but it's just refreshing to find a channel like yours
I've just been using the tablets that the previous renters left under the sink, so I'm excited to try this recipe out soon!
This is what I was looking for. Awesome sauce.
i made a laundry powder last week from baking soda, washing soda and grated soap and I am so impressed, it's extra// also amazing for random cleaning jobs..
Fab advice and definitely still valid even though posted 5 years ago 👍🏻
I've used cider vinegar because I had it on hand which works perfectly
Just made this diy and is currently being used in the dishwasher... my wife is super sceptical about it so i really hope dishes come out clean :) (baked the baking soda but not sure if it reached to the right point to turn to washing soda)
Anyway, great video overall, thumbs up!
First load of dishes is on!! Excited to see how they come out ☺️ thanks for sharing!
Are your dishes clean?
@@CarlosHenriqueNoronhadeAguiar mine are. We had greasy take out last night & tried it with that as a test. Really impressed
I used the soda crystal, citric acid and sea salt combo. It works really well. I was alarmed by the unexpected fizzing and the mixture goes ice cold. So if that happens to anyone expecting a powder, don't be alarmed! It does form a solid-ish, lumpy cold mass and didn't make them into tablets but kept it Inna jar. With the vinegar as rinse aid it works really well.
Thank you so much for this easy recipe it really works. I loved the helpful method of making washing soda. This is going to save me a lot on wash machine expenses. ❤
Just made a very similar recipe over on my channel- hoping it works out well for my household :) Thanks for explaining how to make washing soda !
Thank you very much for the video! Do you also know a good recipe for the laundry detergent?) Thanks
Love this DIY
I'll try this but I have never found one on line that worked to my standard. I do make a liquid one I like but I also add 1 teaspoon of a quality dishwasher detergent ( Cascade) to each load. This way a big bottle of Cascade for 7.50 will last me a year and I do a load everyday. Vinegar doesn't cut it for me as a rinse agent but I do buy a store brand and it works fine.
Took me nearly 2 hours to source fragrance free dishwasher tablets online! Trying this!!
I just made this Kate! There's a new business in Dublin called Minimal Waste Grocery and they gave me all the ingredients in bulk in a glass jar- how cool! Looking forward to how it works with my dishwasher :)
How did it work, Aislinn? I'm thinking of trying it so I'm trying to get plenty of feedback.
@@deanna1904 well, 3 years later. I've just made this & am impressed.
I love your enthusiasm for zero waster and the environment. Unfortunately the recipe didn't work for me as it left a cloudy film over everything. However, I used it to clean the stainless steel hob instead and it worked on that:)
Hello Kate, I have recently found your channel, and love it, it’s inspirational. It’s made me think a lot, and I am noticing plastic on everything. Wish Bulk Market was a countrywide shop. I shop in Lidl usually due to family of 6, but I’m mortified with the amount of plastic I have thrown away over the years, we just become desensitised to it. Nearly every fruit/veg is in plastic. I take my own carrier bags but Im feeling more and more I am not doing enough. Along with Plastic Ocean TV footage it’s making me angry and sad.
So this week I have a plan, I have found a grocers, so will use my shopping bags, I have a couple of mason Jars, and take them with me and stick to my shopping list.
Thank you for opening my eyes. I need to re-educate myself and family, it’s going to be a long journey but rewarding.
Love the idea of homemade dishwasher powder.
After running out of standard tablets I used soda crystals alone and with vinegar as a rinse aid....I also chop a lemon in half and pop it on the top rack.. everything comes out sparkling x
@Nelson Lance yea, been using flixzone for since november myself :)
@Nelson Lance Yup, have been watching on Flixzone for since december myself =)
Could you use leftover dishwasher salt instead of sea salt? TIA - you've inspired me!
“It’s got that slight... apocalypse vibe” 😍 yes! I know the exact weather you mean 👍🏻
I'll try this.
Never going to click the unsuscribe bottoms! Saving the world!
Thanks! Good stuff. I’m wondering if you launder your cleaning towels, dish towels etc. with your clothing or do in a separate load?
Emily Mosley I do a separate load !
I would love to see a video about your health and fitness.
Thanks 👍 am going to give this a go go 😁
thank you! I love that you actually shared that it never previously worked - it makes me trust the solution you found. how are you dealing with laundry washing and softening? have you researched if the brands from the sorts of Ecover are really harmless to marine life etc.? i'd love to know!
*WOw it Was DatW Easy Thankx...* 👌👌👌
Wats the reason for baking the soda for 30mins plus. Thx
Hi, can I use it as an alternative to dishwash liquid
My bulk place has washing soda crystals, but they’re much bigger crystals. Is this likely to work okay?
Can you please make a video or just say to me if you have a recipe for DIY for mopping.?
Thanks for sharing this! Trying this later ;)
It's magic! Hehe. I can't wait to try it! Thanks!
Okay I first watched Kate on Anglophenia and I'm baffled as to how I stumbled upon her while looking for soap recipes, but I'll take it
Cool. :) I am also interested to see the washing powder. But I will check your blog. Did you know you can also wash (or do dishes) with Ivy (and a bunch of other plants containing saponin)? I am yet to try, but I will soon. Cheap and cheerful. And zero waste.
I didn't know that! I'm using conkers myself.
I think I've read that one too. I'd share the article (it is very long and in depth), but it is in dutch.
mrsdeWilde
Saponins are natural but also toxic.
I don’t have kosher salt can I double the amount of citric acid ?
Can we not use soap nuts?
thanks!!!!
Hi Kate, thank you! ow would you proceed to make tablets out of this powder?
Murielle Co I found the mixture moist nit dry
Thank you for this video! Question: Why did you bake the bicarbonate/baking soda? Thank you
Baking the bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) changes its ph level, which turns it into 'washing soda'. Chemistry! ;-)
Kirstine Thank you 😊
Ava Monroe
It’s unnecessary here.
Followed the recipe made half, so moist tho ( yrs used wooden spoon) what happened, out in flexing I’ve cube trays, drying out now in heated surer
Hi Kate, Where do you buy your vinegar now? Both Tesco's and Sainsbury's vinegar now uses plastic bottles =( xoxo
Plastic doesn’t have to be evil if you repurpose instead of throwing away. I use plastic gallon-vinegar containers to store my DIY laundry detergent and for storing other items for which glass is not essential. Yes, I would eventually like to switch over to all glass for storage, but we have to work with the limitations of budget and what is available.
Can you tell me what is the water hardness where you live
Hi Kate IAM from India just got midea one it have 3 compartment. 1.detergent.2 salt.3 .rinse aid
Now ithink in detergent I need to put washing soda and citric mix
2 .sea salt in salt
3.vineger in rinse aid
Here in India vineger cost 50cent 800ml white one but give pungent smell did after wash that vinger smell comes from your dish .
Is it safe for dishwasher???
You’ve disabled comments on it, but just wanted to tell you the screenshot for your lookbook video says ‘loobook’...
Ordered all the ingredients, definitely didn’t get a powder just a fizzing popping wet mass! Is this safe to use please 🙏 why did mine do this? I see the review below is similar! I’m presuming theirs went wet too? 😮
I’ve just gone back to the wet maze and it’s a solid lump now, this is like a chemistry experience! I’m now able to break it up into a kind of a lumpy powder now. I’m guessing it will be fine to use?
does it save any money ?
Hooray iv found a British channel!!!!!!
Be careful putting the vinegar in the rinse aid dispenser - I believe it can corrode parts of your dishwasher. Some people have had success placing it in a small bowl in the dishwasher rack, though I haven't tried it myself.
i have been making apple cider vinagar out of appel peels and cores , for years using it in my dishwasher it works very well ..no problem for the machine that i’ve been using for more than 10 years
What about Salt ?
Awesome tutorial. New subbie here. Christina
Can't I use baking soda instead
What gets tea stains out of cups, can something be added to powder
Soak the cups in diluted bleach works like magic.😊
Is the citric acid meant to react / effervesce with the soda crystals? Feel like this has gone wrong.... Help? Can I still use it?
I had the same problem! And everything is coming out covered in a powdery coating :(
I had this problem... did you ever find the answer? Did you use citric acid crystals or powder? I used crystals and it went crazy.
I don’t understand what kind of products you are using because when washing soda is mixed with citric acid it reacts creating sodium citrate (which I’m not quite sure about it’s cleansing habilities) plus water and carbon dioxide, that’s why it becomes watery and bubbly to many of you guys. I’d love to know why yours is not reacting like that.
Hi Kate, I love your videos and you have become my girl crush and role model. But as a flight attendant I'm really struggling when I'm abroad as the views on environmental pollution vary a lot. And as christmas is approaching very 'fast' and I'm a lover of advent calendar, I would like to know if you have any tips on either issue. It can be very difficult to think outside the box🙂
It can be a real eye-opener when visiting another country right? I think sharing things (like a pic of something that is insanely over-wrapped) on social media is a good way to highlight things, and tag businesses or local community projects working against waste, or greenpeace etc. I'm also always amazed at the amount of disposable plastic waste on flights, especially short ones!
My brother and his wife LOVE advent calendars and they have a reusable wooden advent calendar, one of them fills the odd numbers and the other fills the even and they take it in turns to open the opposite numbers. They've had it for about 8 years and it's such a great idea! There are quite a few on Etsy: tidd.ly/6073a8cd (affiliate link). I should prob do a video about things like this as well as reusable wrapping ideas, better (not perfect) gifts and some d.i.y ideas (that are crucially easy AF). Thanks for the suggestion!
Thank you for your tips. I will go to Los Angeles next and I'm already looking for second hand shops and organic restaurants. It's so sad how much we have to throw away on a plane, basically everything that has been used, is single used plascit or food tha has not been eaten, because of hygienic reasons or country regulations. It's ridiculous.
I actually looked for 'green' advent calendars that are already filled but it seems that there is nothing around, so filling one yourself is the only alternative. It is definitely more personal and special. I'm looking forward for some christmassy videos:)
Is it possible to use the baking soda without putting it in the oven? What is the purpose of the oven?
The oven turns baking soda into washing soda. You can skip this step by just buying washing soda directly.
I have seen a couple of recipes that tell to add dish soap or liquid castille soap. wandering if you maybe know whether or not it is necessary? I mean, if you tried it does it add something to the cleaning process? or does this recipe do the work just fine without adding soap?
If you put salt already in the dishwasher would I still need to put salt in this mixture ?
Same question here, i hope someone replies to this question pls, tia
Do you also use some type of salt in the dishwasher special salt compartment or is the salt in the detergent enough?
caramelushca
Salt does nothing to clean or improve rinsing.
@@FrankGutowski-ls8jt Wrong! It does so by softening the water. Without softened water you will get mineral deposits. Particularly evident on glass.
Use granular dishwasher salt. It does not enter the chamber but acts as a backflush. Here's the best advice www.dri-pak.co.uk/the-dishwasher-your-best-friend/
Dri Pak
Salt, sodium chloride, does not soften water. If you think it does, then how?
Dri Pak
Your link says not to use table salt, but dishwasher salt, whatever that contains... This confirms what I said. Table salt doesn’t soften water. This so-called dishwasher salt may, but its composition remains a mystery.
This washing powder can be useful for those that we don't have dishwasher?
ANGELICA TREJO no,it will irritate your skin.
ANGELICA TREJO
It won’t dissolve grease and oil. It’s just water softeners.
6:26 Boring AF. Awesome lol! LOVE YOU GIRL!
Washing soda and citric acid neutralize each other. You’ve made sodium citrate, a water softener.
Salt does nothing.
This contains no surfactants. Dissolve in hot water, add oil, shake. Observe that none dissolves.
treis531
No. I have no interest in doing that. I just critique what’s presented.
Citric acid is a solvent. Soap softens the water. Washing soda is different than baking soda. I'm not sure on her method of cooking the baking soda to make washing soda, that seems suspect but the formula is fairly sound.
Lisa McMahon
Citric acid is not a solvent. Solvents are liquids, not crystalline solids.
Soap softens water by forming soap scum. You add water softeners to prevent that.
Washing soda is produced that way by calcining baking soda.
@@FrankGutowski-ls8jt hi Frank, when the citric acid dissolves in water it is a mild acid which can help break down and dissolve some things. Maybe not the fats, but other things.
Lisa McMahon
Citric acid reacts with washing soda, which is a base and water softener. The products are sodium citrate, a water softener, carbon dioxide, and water.
What are ‘some things’ you believe it will ‘break down and dissolve’?
For what it's worth, I live in a place with VERY hard water, and the only thing it has done is leave hard water spots on our dishes, which doesn't bother me because I grew up in a place with the same issue. It DOES stop up our shower head like mad, though. I need to soak it in vinegar!
Hi Kate! I love your channel! I made your recipe with shop bought soda crystals and the mix started fizzing in my bowl. I used it and it worked great but then I went away for a week and the whole mix turned into mud. I used it anyway but it didn't work great in my dishwasher. I threw it away and made fresh batch and the same thing happened! Help! What am I doing wrong?!
I would say keep it in a dry place in a jar with a good tight lid. Salt attracts moisture and that I think is the problem 😊 and yes citric acid and washing soda will fizz
Feeling Crafty
When sodium carbonate and citric acid react, one of the products is water, which dissolves more of them, enabling even more to react, producing more water, and so on.
MD29
Attracting water is not the problem. One is an acid, one is a base. When they neutralize each other, one of the products is water.
This looks great but I am finding it difficult sourcing sea salt that comes in a cardboard box. I live in London - any tips anyone?
Isabelle Hatton
No need for it. Does nothing. Waste of money.
@@FrankGutowski-ls8jt Its for hard water.
@@TheFourthWinchester
No, presumably you mean sea salt softens water. If it did, there’d be no magnesium or calcium in the oceans, and consequently, no shellfish or bony fish, because...well, you can figure out why, right?
Just a cautionary tale on this particular recipe, a slight idiot malfunction on my part and not a problem with the video as such.
I tried this recipe and mistakenly used Soda Crystals and NOT Washing Soda as I mistakenly thought that they were one and the the same thing. However when I came to mix the ingredients together using Soda Crystals instead of washing soda the whole batch became a frozen lump and then turned ito a semi-liquid sludge which I later discovered was due to the chemical reaction between the Soda Crystals and the Citric Acid!
I would add that although I ended up with a sludgy white mess it still oes the job extremely well if somewhat tricky to put in the dispenser.
You have been warned, make sure you RTFM.
Bummer, this is leaving a white chalky residue on everything and note cleaning very well, not sure why it's not working (in a hard water London area).
You can also buy ecological detergents that will work fine, and don't harm the environment. They are more expensive, but in my experience, those self-made detergents almost never work that well.
Orla Martin
Ha. No surfactants. Needs softener in the rinse.
Try to use a little less of it.. that might help..
Me too, I also live in a hard water area. Maybe that is something to do with it?
The dishwasher salt in the salt compartment softens the water. That may be the problem?
Are you still happy with your DIY detergent?
Very interesting, I tried mixing the washing soda with citric acid and maybe because of the humidity levels, but the mixture started to have a small chem. reaction (milder version of when you spray vinegar on baking soda) and the bowl i was mixing it in cooled down dramatically........
thatkindofwoman same happened to me too! After a while it turned into mud and just didn't work well in the dishwasher
Yep mine turned to paste...the citric acid is very sensitive to moisture and I think mine had been stored in a damp place by the supplier. As it was so wet I tried pressing it into icecube trays and making tablets. I hardened them in the freezer for 30 mins the popped them out to air dry, but they went soft. I still use them though, just spoon it into the compartment and it works just the same.
thatkindofwoman
Ha. They neutralized each other!!!
Claire Cooper
Acid base reaction. They neutralized each other.
Marielle Habraken
Oh please! One’s an acid and the other’s a base. Reactions happen. Chemistry.
Whenever I add the soda and acid it starts fizzing, creates a chemical reaction and goes really cold 😩🤦🏼♀️
I had the same problem, but I figured out that it was because I used washing soda that was a bit wet. You have to make sure that all your ingredients are dry. And since all the washing soda that I can find in the local shops is wet, I'm going to try her recipe and put the baking soda in the oven to create washing soda.
My soda crystals are stored in an airtight container and still got the chemical reaction!
@@GrangeFarmIOW Same problem! Do we reckon it's still ok to use after the reaction has finished? :/ seems like a waste
Me too :(
I tried it twice but of NO use at all . Utensilss were left with white spots. Even it did not clean any thing I have to give them another cycle with tablet.
Why citric acid?
Water softener.
I am a rebel. I clean out the top rack first. :o
See i keep seeing stuff about washing soda which is the same as soda crystals , that you’re not meant to put it in your machine because it ruins your machine so has anyone got a soda crystal free recipe? …
literally broke the webs.. who's here before 1 million views? hehe
So I’ve attempted to make this 3 times, each time it starts to fizz has anyone got any suggestions on why this is please? 😩
I just made mine and have an exactly same problem! 😩😩
From a chemical standpoint there is a slight difference in washing and baking soda. Sad truth in many places in the world like where I come from - Eastern Europe you can only buy what is know as 'washing soda' in UK and US only in 25 kilo bags. 😂
what i have done wrong ??? mine started to fizz away😱😱😱😱😱
Same here. We left it in the bowl until it stopped fizzing and then put it into the jar. Works amazingly. Not sure what the fizzing was about...
Did you make your own washing soda from bicarbonate soda? Maybe you didn't dry it enough in the oven. It should look granulated. Baking soda and citric acid ( or lemon juice) would cause a fizz. If you used commercial washing soda then not sure what went wrong.
I used shop bought washing soda and it was fizzing for ages. I stored it in a jar and after a week the whole thing turned into mush! It's all runny and wet instead of dry powder. No idea what's caused it.
Joanna, do you live where there is high humidity? Washing soda is baking soda which has been dried out in the oven. It changes it composition from powder to granulated. Did you store it in an airtight jar with a seal in the lid? I have never heard of it turning to mush. You should still be able to use it, I would take a stick blender to it and use like a liquid. Hope that helps.:o)
This is because the advice is wrong! These sort of recipes are just basically wrong. You add an alkali like Soda Crystals or Bicarb and mix it with an acid like citric acid and white vinegar and what do you get when subjected to water? A reaction whereby each neutralises the other. Happy for the OP to digest the information on our site. We are the manufacturer of Soda Crystals and supplier of other natural cleaning products www.dri-pak.co.uk/the-application-of-science/
my dishwasher won't be bad
Leave it to TikTok to make people think that this is how you make washing soda. It’s not it’s still baking soda.
hi baby
you should pay me for watching your video
You’re right! You’re no chemist. Too many mistakes and misunderstandings to address. Don’t quit your day job!
Geez Frank.
Shall i add up the amount of ridiculous comments you've made here, to go out of your way to be rude to people?
Just run along and go and find someone else to annoy. You make yourself look stupid!
Miss K
If you start paying attention you could possibly learn something.
@@FrankGutowski-ls8jt From you? No thanks
Miss K
You must be the self-appointed, self-righteous, UT Police! What’s your badge number, officer?
Ok to correct without being condescending.
She doesn’t understand that citric acid and washing soda neutralize each other (one contains three carboxylic acids, the other is a base). So, when dissolved they produce sodium citrate (a water softener) carbon dioxide, and water. She converts baking soda to washing soda, even though it’s completely unnecessary. This is what happens when you don’t know what you’re doing, but nevertheless post a clueless YT recipe anyway.
you should be standup commedian instead
Excuse me, but there is no way to make "zero-waste" things in the current universe. You use a big amount of sodium salts. Where do you think all that sodium ions go? To heaven?
Do you know how soda is made? It's not a zero-waste product.
Yes, your powder is maybe a little bit greener than an industrial one. But not zero-waste at all.
But anyway, thanks for the recipe! It's a good thing to think about.