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I will start my protip with a little history lesson.

For most of the 20th century, laundry and dishwasher detergents had a healthy amount of phosphate as an essential cleaning component. Please understand that dishwashers and washing machines work by sloshing dishes and clothes around in an ugly mix of water, detergent, and soil from dishes and clothes. Without the phosphates in detergents, soil on dishes and clothes constantly redeposit themselves on the dishes and clothes throughout the cleaning cycle and are unable to release from the goods you want clean.

Algae loves phosphate though, so some misguided tree huggers convinced lawmakers that banning phosphate from detergents would result in positive effects for health of the nation's streams, lakes and ponds (it didn't). Over the past two decades phosphates were eliminated from household cleaners and fast forward to today, all of our clothes and dishes are coated in their own filth straight out of the machines, dishwashers and washing machines develop a disgusting slime around the bottom and around all their gaskets, and we have come to accept stewing in our own shit as the new definition of clean.

You don't have to accept the treehuggers' definition of clean though. You can buy trisodium phosphate at most any home center or paint supply store or even Wal Mart, and add small amounts of the powder (I suggest a 10:1 ratio of detergent to TSP) to off-the-shelf dishwasher and laundry detergents. You don't have to be a retard and buy overpriced Tide and Cascade Platinum detergent anymore. Just buy the cheapest detergents you can get, add TSP, and you'll find that you can use half the detergent you used to and rediscover what clean used to mean.