Savogran 10622 Trisodium Phosphate (TSP) 4.5lbs

There is a formula to dishwasher success. My glasses come out of my dishwasher looking like new…many are over ten years old…no “film” or “spots” just crystal CLEAN clear glass. My stainless cookware has a mirror finish again and the flatware is no longer “gray color” but shines like it did new out of the box. We have very hard water here and the convenience of a dishwasher was the expected trade off of the ease of loading dirty dishes and removing sanitized, mostly clean dishes that you don’t mind eating off of but might sort through to find the least embarrassing examples to set down in front of company. When the government removed the phosphates our dishes here went from “passable” to unacceptable by the lowest of standards. I’m actually glad now that it happened because I had no idea what excellent results a dishwasher was capable of (not ours anyway). Here is what works for us:One Tablespoon of TSP in the first wash compartment…… because if I add it to the main wash compartment and close the lid…. it leaves a film on the glasses from not rinsing out completely. The TSP does a great job on grease and oil. (you can clean garage floors with it). Next I add a Finish Powerball Tablets, Fresh Scent, 60-Count to the main wash (I found they worked better than powders ….gels work least of all) and sprinkle Lemi Shine around the tablet and close the compartment lid. Lemi Shine will remove the hardness out of the water and eat the lime deposits off your glasses and silverware (and the paint decals off a painted glass so read the precautions because it’s citric acid but the stuff works magic..seriously!). Finally I have a small jug of bleach I keep under the sink beside the dishwasher, (really handy in a small jug) I splash a small amount in the bottom of the machine for the coffee (pot and lid) and tea stains nothing else will get out (if you run your wooden handle knives in the dishwasher….you probably won’t mind them bleaching gray. Just kidding because of course you don’t run your good knives in a dishwasher now do you?….) along with tomato stains in plastics, etc.., Finally I run the pots and pans cycle with the sanitize option turned on (habit from trying to boost the results of do nothing detergents) and the end result is a glass that looks like it did new. Even with a meatloaf pan in the bottom rack.I suspect this is close to the detergent formulations of when I was a kid because I don’t remember mom’s dishwasher turning out spotted, scroungy dishes. I used an empty Lemi Shine bottle, pulled the label off and wrote in marker TSP on the bottle and filled it up to make it easier to handle than a big honkin 4 lb box. There are NO CHILDREN here or everything would be so high up in shelves I would need a ladder to reach it all. Everything under the sink is a killer so protect the little ones folks.If you have hard water you really should follow the one time cleaning instructions found on the Lemi Shine bottle (I buy mine locally at walmart and krogers for $3.77) which is really just dumping it in and letting it sit in the dishwasher overnight then turning it back on and letting it finish its cycle….the insides look like new. Also keep a good rinse agent in your dispenser (I use Finish Jet-Dry Turbo Dry Drying Agent: 6.76 OZ and it really does seem to dry plastic better than the others).It sounds like a lot now that I re-read this but its only a tablet, two powders and a splash. NO pre rinsing or pre washing…just remove the bones off the plates and cram em in (yes I overload) and turn it on…you will be pleasantly surprised with your results. 🙂

No miracle for fragrance abatement but AWESOME on tobacco. This was my first purchase of TSP so I can’t say whether this brand is especially good or bad compared to others.I wanted to try it as a laundry additive and wall wash specifically to remove synthetic fragrance. The tenant before us here stank up the washing machine with scented laundry stuff and it transferred onto our clothes & is proving very hard to remove! The TSP is definitely better than borax, baking soda, vinegar, or detergent, but perhaps not quite as good as ammonia. No matter what we try, it seems it takes a half dozen runs through the machine (with long soaks) to remove the vile chemicals. This same stinky tenant used some sort of scented candle or something in one of the rooms and we have it closed off until we figure out how to clean it up (I get very ill from certain ingredients in synthetic fragrance). We will someday soon be donning full PPE and scrubbing that room with TSP, after which I will update this review. We will also be trying it on the walls and benches in a little screened-in porch here that people used for smoking for many years. I have high hopes it can tackle that as it is the main claim to fame of TSP that it can remove smoke residue.Edit: OMG I’m sorry I forgot to add to this after I did the smoke abatement. STELLAR results!!! So we had a screened-in porch that had decades of smoke buildup on the walls, windowsills, wooden ceiling, vinyl flooring, and handmade rustic furniture. I was dreading all that scrubbing. TSP made it come off SO EASILY! Like a flippin miracle. So amazing. I put on a white suit and booties, taped the ankles together, also taped rubber gloves to the suit’s wrists, and pulled the hood up around a full-face respirator. I hear TSP is a bit irritating to the skin but my big worry was all the nicotine & other poisons in the cigarette tar, especially as I’ve always been a nonsmoker so my body would be very jolted by a sudden big dose of nicotine. It was no joke- the dirty water came off incredibly brown like giant volumes of chew-tobacco spit hah!Sealed up well I took a bucket of warm water and rags for wiping, and a bucket of warm TSP water (about 1/4c for a couple gallons), with a sponge on a stick (I think it’s designed for use in doing dishes) and a bristled scrubby brush for applying. I applied the TSP water generously over an area about 6’x 6′, and then went back to where I started, and rubbed the area with more TSP water on the scrubby brush. In just ten min or so of sitting, it had dissolved the tar wonderfully and it came off well. The bristles were more useful for getting into crevices than needed for scouring. I didn’t have to push hard or linger long. It worked perhaps a bit too well… the varnish came off a bit. But I think it had been carelessly applied, just a single layer. If you’re planning to repaint after cleaning, this would actually be an advantage as the new paint would stick better to a corroded surface than a sleek one. The damaged varnish did not peel, it just disappeared- the fact that it’s partially gone is not very noticeable until you look closely. No ugly flaking.Anyhoo, then I went across the same 6×6 area with the sponge-on-a-stick and the plain water. Changed the water then rinsed again with the clean rag. Dried with another clean rag. Then repeated on the next 6×6 chunk of the room. It took several long days but I was so proud when I finally got the last bit of it complete!This was done in the spring, and all summer, whether on baking hot days or soggy foggy rainy days, there was zero cigarette smell in that porch! The residues are truly totally gone! I can’t believe it worked so great and it didn’t take a long soak, or much scrubbing, or any tremendous heat… it was easy and simple (aside from gearing up in all that PPE)Oh, the picnic furniture I took out onto the lawn so when the rinsing stage came I just used the hose rather than fussing to wipe it all clean with rags. I rinsed the lawn pretty well afterward. There was no discoloration of the grass. So that was nice- I thought maybe it would either kill or overfertilize the grass.

Some of the best cleaner money can buy. You can use this for all kinds of things to give them a deep clean. Too bad they took it out of dishwashing detergent. However, that is easily solved by supplementing a bit of this…The only downside to this is cost – you go through too much and have to keep ordering it.

Good Cleaner for Laundry. Got tuff stains that won’t come out? This will usually get it out. I don’t use it that often because it’s phosphorus, but there are times when the tide pod just doesn’t quite cut it.

Packaging for shipment very poor. This is REAL TSP, not the fake, ineffective “TSP Substitute” that is all too common these days.So the product itself is excellent.However, because this is a heavy powder in a box (much like detergent might be), it needs to be packaged for shipment in an outer box, preferably with padding or a tight fit so it will survivenormal handling during shipping.I’ve received two of the three of these that I ordered, and they were both simply placed into shipping bags, and of course, the boxes arrived broken open, with the product spilling out.I’ve had to repackage the remaining powder since the original boxes arrive fairly well destroyed.So the product itself is excellent. But the boxes need more substantial packaging prior to shipment.But I do sympathize with how expensive it must be to properly package and ship such a relatively inexpensive and heavy product, too. And I was happy just to find a source for real TSP.TSP is a very effective grease cutter, but has been hard to find due to environmental regulations which are designed to limit phosphate pollution of waterways.

Tsp. Works better than I expected

Quality product. Great cleaning power

Great for dishwasher. My dishwasher stunk so bad. I tried switching detergents. I used Cascade and then switched to kirkland brand and I was cleaning it out regularly. Nothing was helping. After researching and trying various things I remembered my mom said dishwasher detergent used to be better but they took out the phosphates because it caused algae blooms that killed wildlife in river and lakes. After researching how and what phosphates do I decided to give this a try. (We have our own septic system not connected to a city system, we have to get it pumped every 3 years.) I figured with having our own closed system it would be safe to try. I used 1 tsp added to the detergent tray and the smell was noticeably less. After using this 3 times I can tell it’s making a huge difference. The door of my machine is sparkling and no longer dingy with grease. (There was a pinkish coating all over the inside of the dishwasher) As for safety about using it on your dishes you’ll have to look that up. They do add food grade TSP to some baked goods as a leavening agent. I don’t know if I will use this for every wash or just weekly to keep my machine clean. But I am loving that this is working and I plan on using it in my washing machine also.