How To: Make Dish Soap

Like many products that fill the store shelves, dish soap is full of chemicals that are detrimental to our health. I pulled the list of ingredients off of Palmolive Dish Soap out of curiosity, here’s what I found. Not only does Palmolive have 12 ingredients, most of which I can’t pronounce, but it also has Triclosan, a chemical that has been linked with autism in numerous independent studies. See for yourself…
Water , Ammonium C12-15 Pareth Sulfate , Magnesium Isododecylbenzenesulfonate , Lauramidopropylamine Oxide , SD Alcohol 3-A , Sodium Xylenesulfonate , Sodium Chloride , Fragrance , Pentasodium Pentetate , DMDM Hydantoin , Sodium Bisulfite , D&C Orange No. 4 (active ingredients: Triclosan 0.12%).

It’s just silly how easy it is to make your own dish soap, and with only 2 ingredients why would you ever buy chemical-packed soap again?

Homemade Dish Soap
1/2 c. Liquid Castille Soap
2 c. water

Add the castille soap to an old dish soap bottle, add the water, and shake well to mix. That’s it, seriously.

Castille isn’t actually soap, but a combination of coconut, palm, olive, hemp, jojoba oils. My favorite is Dr. Bronner’s Peppermint Soap which smells fantastic and leaves your skin feeling tingly and refreshed. All of Dr. Bronner’s products are 100% organic and use only fair trade ingredients. A gallon of Dr. Bronner’s is about $55 (either from their online store or your local health food store), so for a 27 oz bottle of dish soap (the recipe above), you’re looking at $1.71.