Washing Dishes

Try shampoo and pour a little bleach in the water as a disinfectant. I do that all the time when i run out of dish washing liquid.

Hi Winter, I have been in this spot so many times. I use laundry detergent but it is so much more concentrated that I dilute it with a little water and use a lot less. I also have two dish soap bottles and I pour some out of each new bottle into the other and dilute them with a little water to make them go further. I also keep a jar in which I drain the seemingly bottles. I do this with both laundry and dish soap. you would be amazed at how quickly these jars fill up. They come in handy in between paydays!

yup I have used ajaxs and washing powders to do dishes with when mother in law hid the dish soap

I've known people to use laundry detergent to wash their dishes. (I also knew someone who would use it as bubble bath...)

Do you have any liquid hand soap? If not take a little bar soap and then grate it as small as possible, get about a teaspoon worth and place it in a bottle or jar with a lid. Then add 2 cups of water and shake, allow it about 30 minutes or so to dissolve more and then shake it up again. Then use the same amount of this as you would dish detergent plus add 1 teaspoon of baking soda to dish water, and 1 tablespoon of regular white vinegar. The soap water will clean, the baking soda will get germs off the dishes and the vinegar will keep grease and other things from sticking.

Hello winterose, same here, there were times that we ran out of dish washing liquid. How I wish i could send you one if we just a few steps away. Well, in our country we have lots of alternative of that whenever we've ran out of dish washing liquid. Dish washing liquid came out late than detergent powder soup. We used to have detergent bar or detergent powder on dish washing. I am not sure if you like the idea...just rinse it well before using the dishes... Nice weekend my friend.. Mobhomeir here 052512 1634hrs

Hello winteroce and good afternoon. By now you have probably made up your m9nd to use laundry soap for your dishes. Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth as my son likes to put me in my youth I lived with my grandmother.. She never used any thing but tide laundry soap for dishes. She had tow dish pans, one for washing up and one for rinsing the dishes. She heated her water in a large teakettle on the stove. We didn't have hot water in the house. I hated the way tide felt on my hands when I had to wash dished.but t he tide did the job.

I would say to use that, or shampoo, or even baking soda like a scouring powder.

I wish I got my check on the 31st. I get my pension on the 1st and my SSD on the 3rd. We eat out on the pension and then get groceries on the 3rd at Walmart. My grandmother used to use a few flakes of Tide in the old dishwashing pan she had. Worked fine. If you get too much it leaves a film on your hands.

When I'm out of dishwashing liquid I will use laundry detergent... you have to rinse really well though.. don't use too much.. the water will be really slippery on the dishes. You can also use vinegar and water... of course there is no suds but you can still get the dishes clean.. rinse well. I've even used shampoo before to wash dishes with... I put it right on the sponge when I wash dishes... that's the way I always wash.. put the soap right on the sponge. I put about a tablespoon of chlorox in the water too. Clorox seems to make the water wetter.. it increases the surface tension of the water.

You can just boil some water and pour it into your dishes , let them rest for a while , if you want you can just rub the dishes or put in the water some sodium bicarbonate. that really works well even in washing fruits , good luck.

I used to wash with dish wash bar once in a day. If I have to wash it another time, I just use plain water. You have to dilute those detergents for clothes to wash dishes or else it will smell like detergent. And also you could save it, only for washing oily or greasy vessels.

using detergents in washing dishes is also good. But to remind you must use the detergents not that much. And wash the things with water thoroughly so that all the detergent will be removed and to be sure pour hot water to your washed dishes so that you will be really sure that no detergent is left and you will be sure that it will be really clean. Happy washing!

Vinegar and baking soda should surely do the trick just like stlouis said!

Detergent is made to not produce bubbles. I'd use shampoo in place of dishwashing liquid until you can get more.

you can use any soap or shampoo even lemon or vinegar to get rid of oil/fat. Only thing you should be aware of is that there are no soap rests left behind, since swalling shampoo or washingpowder is a big NO.

Vinegar and baking soda.