Homemade Laundry and Dish Soap Revisited

An update to my using homemade laundry soap.  The recipe that works for us is:

1.5 cups Borax
1.5 cups Washing soda
1 bar of soap such as Ivory, Fels Naptha, etc.

We have a well with a high iron content.  It literally looks like liquid rust.  The water is filtered through an iron filter and a water softener.

I tried several different dishwasher detergent recipes.  I didn't like any of them, and they weren't much cheaper to make than the cheap store brand costs.

Vinegar as the rinse agent works very well, so we'll keep using that.  I can get a gallon of cheap store brand for about the same cost as the rinse agent I used to buy.