I've tried all sorts of home remedies such as lemon juice and vinegar, and none of them do the job quite like I hoped. Buying a whole water filtration system just for hard water seems to me like a waste of money.

A friend mentioned to me that he uses citric acid to clean his dishes of hard water and it worked for him great. I decided to try and found the same thing, it is cheap like vinegar, and environmentally safe, yet it's much more powerful.

All you do is run a load like you normally would, with the dishes you want to clean the hard water stains off of, but instead, you put an oz or 2 of citric acid in the container and wash.

I found a site that sells citric acid in the dishwasher quantities for cheap, and they had great service. I ordered from the site and it was shipped the same day, and it arrived a day later with priority shipping.

If you're interested, the site is called
www.dishwasherhardwater.com