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This is a great money saving recipe, so you don’t have to buy dishwasher tabs! By making the tabs yourself, the tabs end up costing you roughly 3 Cents each!!
Here’s what you’ll need:
- 1 cup Borax
- 1 cup Baking Soda
- 1/2 cup Epsom salt
- 8-10 tablespoons of Lemon juice
- Wax paper
Here’s what to do:
- Spread 1 cup of Baking soda onto a cookie sheet.
- Bake at 400 degrees for an hour, stirring every 20 minutes. This turns the baking soda into Washing Soda.
- Mix together the dry ingredients in a bowl.
- Add the lemon juice to the dry mixture, starting with 8 tablespoons, and increasing as needed.
- The mixture should be sticky and thick enough to form. If it’s too crumbly, add more lemon juice.
- Place wax paper in a baking pan. Using a melon baller, scoop out a ball of the mixture and place on the wax paper.
- Using a spoon, flatten the ball a little, so it’s the rectangular size of dishwashing tabs, or so it will fit in your dishwasher’s detergent compartment.
- Let them dry overnight.
- Store in an empty, sealable container – an old dishwashing tab container would work perfect.
Helpful tip: Rather than placing the mixture onto wax paper, you can use ice cube trays. Just be sure to fill them only half way.
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