Make your own dishwashing soap by following this easy recipe with just three ingredients. It’s cheap, and you get rid of sulfur and other harmful chemicals. You have dishwashing soap for around $1 for up to half a year, depending on how much is washed up by hand. We do not have a dishwasher and are two or three people, so this portion lasts approx. 4 months.
This soap is suitable for washing dishes by hand and as an all-around soap in the home that can be used, for instance, on floors and bathrooms.
If you are about to make your very first cold process soap, you will not get an easier recipe than this, as the dish soap consists exclusively of soaped coconut oil.
Recipe percentages, lye, and superfat
This information is for advanced soapers. Go to recipe if you are new to soap making.
- 100% Coconut Oil
- 31.418% Lye Concentration
- 38% Water percent of oil weight
- 5% Superfat
- 3.53 oz Total oil weight (100 g)
Soap Quality
As you can see this soap is very cleansing, and you will need to put on gloves when you use it.
| Soap Quality | Range | This Recipe |
| Hardness | 29 – 54 | 79 |
| Cleansing | 12 – 22 | 67 |
| Conditioning | 44 – 69 | 10 |
| Bubbly | 14 – 46 | 67 |
| Creamy | 16 – 48 | 12 |
| Iodine | 41 – 70 | 10 |
| INS | 136 – 165 | 258 |
Recipe for Coconut Dishwashing soap
1 oil soap for dishwashing
Equipment
- 2 plastic, glass, or steel bowls
- Wooden or plastic spoon
- Stick blender
- Thermometer
- pH meter or test strips
- Silicone molds
- Microwave oven
- Kitchen scale
- Safety gear
Ingredients
- 3.53 oz Coconut Oil 76 deg 100 grams
- 1.34 oz Water 38 grams
- 0.61 oz NaOH 18 grams
Instructions
- Use cold or hot process
Soap Fatty Acid Profile
| Lauric | 48 |
| Myristic | 19 |
| Palmitic | 9 |
| Stearic | 3 |
| Ricinoleic | 0 |
| Oleic | 8 |
| Linoleic | 2 |
| Linolenic | 0 |