Making a Do-It-Yourself Dishwashing Liquid!
A portion of what we typically use in the household on a daily basis is the dishwashing liquid. When washing the dishes by hands, you'll need water and either a dishwashing paste, dishwashing liquid or if without those aforementioned, a laundry bar soap can suffice.
One goal that I always have in mind is to find ways to lessen my expenses without compromising comfort. As long as the product works, I'm fine with it.
I ordered a Do-It-Yourself dishwashing liquid kit in Shopee. I picked out the Wise cleaner kit with a lemon scent. This kit would yield around 15-16 liters of dishwashing liquid. The kit costs around 230 pesos while the shipping fee is 45 pesos. So in total, the cost would be 275 pesos. If we are going to compute the cost per liter excluding the materials like the pail, stirrer/PVC pipe and the water, a liter of this dishwashing liquid would cost around 17.1875-18.3333 pesos which is a lot more cheaper considering that an SM bonus dishwashing liquid of 190 ml is at 23 pesos already. I was using Maxglow dishwashing liquid before but because of the shipping fee, a liter of that product would shoot up its price from 32 pesos to around 40-50 pesos.
The DIY Wise Cleaner Dishwashing Liquid kit comes with an instruction manual that you should strictly comply.
Here are the materials included in the kit:
Let's start off with 14 liters of purified water as per instruction. You can use tap water but I prefer to use the purified water so the end product would last longer. By the way, I got the 5 gallons Megabox pail for 175 pesos at Landmark Makati while the PVC blue pipe is around 70 pesos at Handyman.
The second step:
This is what it looks like after you put the surfactant. No mixing yet. You have to let it stay first for 10 minutes.
Time to mix in one direction! See the transparent gelatinous like coating in the pipe? It is the surfactant. It took me about 45 minutes to an hour to completely dissolve the surfactant. Patience is the key!
It would look like this after mixing the materials in the step 3 and 4.
After dissolving the thickener completely, cover the pail and let it sit for around 12 hours. And because I was eager to do this DIY as earlier as possible which is at 4:30 pm, I had to wake up at 4:30 am to mix the last ingredient (Viscosity enhancer). Then afterwards, let it stay again for another 12 hours.
Finally after 12 hours, you can transfer the dishwashing liquid that you just made to your preferred clean containers.
The end product would look like this:
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