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Cleaning dishwasher with Borax/Boric Acid 

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The inside of my dishwasher is discolored. I have heard it's ok to use borax [link is to product info] to clean it. Are borax and boric acid the same? Also, would I use it as a detergent and run the machine through a cycle or physically scrub the interior by hand?

Thanks for your help.

Celene Beatty
- Antioch, TN, USA

Borax is an alkaline powder, thus it boosts soap (also alkaline). Probably would do nothing to clean a dishwasher. Boric acid, as its name implies, is acidic. That would work, but I'm told the citric acid in a small container of Tang [link is to product info at Amazon] works well to clean the dishwasher.

John Puskar
- East Stroudsburg, PA, USA

respond to this boric acid thread.

 

Post a question or inquiry of my own which is not related to boric acid. This is an industrial metal finishing site and we do not want to spawn any more boric acid threads :-)