Hard water stains or spots are a serious problem that can cause your dishes or silverware to look dirty no matter how many times you wash them with detergent in your dishwasher.  Hard water stains dishes and your dish washer interior. Luckily, there is a cure.  Our citric acid formula targets the minerals that cause these unwanted spots and washes them away to make your dishes look brand new.  It's amazingly simple to do and as easy as running a normal load of dishes through your dishwasher.  Buy your citric acid formula and experience for yourself the magic that our product can do.

Water Spots are caused by deposits minerals left behind after the water evaporates off your dishes. Your automatic dishwasher is also a repository for water mineral deposits because minerals tend to stay in your dishwasher and are not pumped out during the wash cycle. Dishwashers use a small amount of water so minerals are not easily flushed out during a normal cycle.  Over time, your automatic dishwashing machine accumulates these minerals and relatively high content of mineral deposits compared to the normal water supply because mineral deposits tend to stick to the surface of your dishwasher.

Mineral deposits in hard water can also stick to dishwasher motor seals and cause the your dishwasher motor to hum or strain motor operation. Regular use of acids such as Citric Acid or vinegar are necessary to increase the life of your dishwasher if you live in an area that has hard water.

Removing Hard Water Deposits

The best way to prevent hard water deposits is to purchase a dishwasher with a built-in water softener or purchase a central water softener. Mineral deposits can be removed with acids.  Natural acids like Vinegar and Citric Acid are preferred because they are non-toxic and are easily biodegradable.  Vinegar is often too weak and Citric Acid must be used.  Commercial dishwasher cleaners can also be purchased, some of these cleaners contain EDTA that is considered an organic pollutant. Citric Acid is the preferred solution for removing hard water build-up from dish washers.  GE Appliances recommends citric acid and has and has a GE part number WD35X151 that contains 2  2 oz. packages of citric acid.  Kitchenaid also recommends the use of citric acid in this Kitchenaid Warranty Document.

Safety

Please read this MSDS sheet. Avoid contact with skin and clothes.

We are the Jensen Family (Brian, Jillian, Danny) and we live in Redondo Beach, California in the Los Angeles Area. We have a Maytag dishwasher that put a white film on all dishes and silverware. Water spots were particularly bad on plastic dishes.  It was necessary to towel dry or re-rise all dishes before using them. Our Maytag Dishwasher was 5 years old and I thought we had a problem with the washer.  We were ready to buy another dishwasher but first,  we called our local Maytag dishwasher appliance repair dealer Liberty Appliance with over 40 years of experience and asked how to clean hard water stains from our dishes. It was recommended that we purchase Maytag part number WD35X151 Qty 2 ounce packets of citric acid for $14.95. Liberty Appliance sells and services Maytag, Kitchenaid, General Electric (GE), Amana,  Whirpool said they were starting to have great demand for this Citric Acid product because the drought in California had caused the water to become harder.  We now understood our hard water spotting  problem was due to hard water deposits but we did some research and found that vinegar could be used to solve our problem!  We ran several loads using a gallon of white vinegar. The water deposits persisted after the vinegar treatments even after we scrubbed the inside of the dishwasher with vinegar. Vinegar did not solve water our spotting problem. After more research, we found that Citric Acid  was a natural weak acid that is found in citrus fruits like lemons and limes. We then mixed up a solution of lemon juice and dipped a hard water stained plastic cup in the lemon juice solution. To our surprise the citric acid in the lemon juice solution dissolved the hard water spots on our plastic cup.  Before trying Citric Acid, we researched other acid products. The most popular commercial clean agent for dishwashers contains and acid called EDTA or ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid.  EDTA  while effective, has emerged as a organic pollutant.   Citric Acid is totally biodegradable and is used as a food additive to enhance flavoring and preserve foods.  Finally, we purchased some citric acid. We poured 2 ounces of citric acid in our soap container and ran a load of "clean" heavily water stained dishes using the hottest water setting.  We were amazed by how the citric acid caused our stained dishes to be stain free again.  Brian and Danny decided to set up this web site to provide Brian with income and a part time job. Brian is responsible for web site maintenance and order fulfillment.

Already bought our product?  Look at our instructions page for the simple steps to cleaning hard water spots.