A Squeaky Clean Experiment: Results

The Results are in!! After a week of washing my dishes with just baking soda and vinegar I have come up with the following conclusions:

• If you have any dishes that you used butter, grease, or oil with I would just sprinkle a little baking soda in with a couple of drops of dish soap. Baking soda alone was not good at cutting grease/oil.
• The vinegar rinse (using either distilled white or apple cider) was great for glasses! You can even add a couple of drops of essential oil to make it smell pleasant. 
• Using just Baking Soda and Vinegar for regular, everyday dirty dishes worked great. Very simple and easy.
•  Make sure you have a good scrubbing pad for stuck-on food.
• The best mixture I found was 1/4 c. baking soda and 1/2 c. vinegar. This was for a full load. Considering how much "All Natural" Dish Soap is, it may or may not be worth your time and money.

So in the end, I have decided for my family to continue to use baking soda and vinegar. I am going to pick up a small bottle of dish soap for my greasy messes, but overall it worked great. I was very pleased with the results and it was a great learning experience.
I'd love to hear if any of you try it and if it works for you!

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Karah Lorbacher UPDATE: I've gone back to using regular dish soap, it works best for my family this way. Sometimes life is all about changes. :)