[Free Vulcan]

You can buy trisodium phosphate from Lowes as well for about $10 a 4 lb box. Does a great job on the clothes. About a tablespoon and a half a load.

[svcw]

Do you think that would work if you through it the auto dishwasher?
Personally I am so sick of cleaning products that don't clean. I though it was just me, I really was beginning to think I had imagined clean bathrooms, clean dishes and clothes in the past.

[Mrs.Z]

“tablespoon & 1/2 per clothes load”

...about how much per dishwasher load?

[RightField]

You can buy trisodium phosphate from Lowes as well for about $10 a 4 lb box.

In our local Lowes the fake TSP is in an orange or yellow box, on the eye-level shelf. The real TSP is in the red box, and up on the highest shelf, where you have to get a clerk to go up the ladder to get it. I bought all 4 boxes they had on the shelf.

I also buy my dishwasher detergent at a janitorial supply. "Professionals" are exempt from the no-phosphate policy. Full phosphate Cascade is readily available at janitorial and/or restaurant supply stores.

[flyingtabby]

Get Sodium Tripolyphosphate at The Chemical Store - I put in one Electrosol tab and fill the rest of the cup with it in my dishwasher. Works like a charm. And a small amount in the washing machine - about 2-3 tablespoons does it. TSP is not so good.

[Chickensoup]

It says it is poisonous. Can it be used in hand dishwashing soap?

[jonrick46]

I bought a $10 box of trisodium phosphate from Lowes and tried it on dishes that had dried on egg yolk and gravy. These were dishes I would have had to spend time prewashing. I loaded them in the dish washer put in a teaspoon of TSP and my dishes came out sparkling clean. It was the best $10s I have spent in the matter of time saved, water use and energy used on extra hot water used for prewashing dishes.