Making your own dishwashing liquid is easy

This detergent has a bittersweet taste, smells like sticky rice tea, with a hint of cinnamon and a little grapefruit peel. It is not sticky at all like industrial detergents, does not waste water, and does not dry out or crack nails.

Below is the recipe for homemade dishwashing liquid made from 100% natural ingredients shared by Ms. Lien Huong, a person knowledgeable about organic foods and natural-friendly products:

From soapberries, Ms. Lien Huong makes her own cleaning solution that is harmless to hands and environmentally friendly.

Ingredient:

- The tray includes seedless soapberries and cinnamon sticks to cook together.

- In the ceramic plate are the soapberries after being cooked and taken out of the water. They expand and are no longer shiny like the dried fruit.

- Sieve to filter the finished product. When pouring the solution into the foaming bottle, filter it through a cloth to avoid clogging the nozzle.

- Mesh bag to hold soap nuts and put in top loading washing machine. After boiling soap nuts to wash dishes, you can still use them for washing or drying them, then cook another batch next week – meaning use them over and over again until the foam is gone.

- Grated grapefruit peel.

Grate the grapefruit peel with a special tool, take only the very thin outer layer of essential oil and steep it like making tea.

Making:

- 1 full 200ml cup of dried Vietnamese soapberries with seeds removed, about 20 berries.

- 1 cinnamon bark stick.

- Peel of 1/3 grapefruit. You can use orange or lemon peel, lemon peel is the most fragrant.

- 1 liter of tap water, well water, or rainwater.

- Soak soapberries in water overnight, about 12 hours. Soak in a glass, enamel, or stainless steel pot.

- Boil soapberry and cinnamon, from the time it boils, simmer for another 45 minutes.

- Grate the grapefruit peel with a specialized tool, taking only the very thin outer layer of essential oil. When the soapberry is almost done cooking, steep the grated grapefruit peel like making tea, 1/3 of the grapefruit as in the plate needs 100ml of boiling water. Pour the juice into the pot of soapberry, boil again then remove from heat.

- Let cool, filter through a sieve, put into a bottle, a foaming bottle is much more economical and convenient.

Finished product:

- 250ml low foaming bottle, light in color, made from soapberry/cinnamon/grapefruit dishwashing liquid just cooked this afternoon. Can be used for about a week.

- 400ml high foam bottle, dark color, is soapberry/soapberry laundry detergent for colored clothes, wool, silk... without mixed essential oils. For hand washing or front-loading washing machines.

According to Vietnamnet