Product Recomendation: Seventh Generation Diswashing Gel

Until as recently as two years ago I had never known the joy that is having a dishwasher in my home. At first I found it to be a miraculous amenity, simplifying my life immensely. Over time though, I began to realize what an utter pain in the posterior they can truly be.

My current dishwasher is an evil old bint. It catches partway through the cycle and the dial needs to be manually advanced every time. It also frequently becomes clogged, making my dishes filthier than they were when they went in, no matter how religiously I pre-rinse. I have tried several different dish detergents, all with the same horrific results, to the point where I returned to predominantly hand-washing all my dishes.

Then, I finally caved on my adamant refusal to become more of a hippie, and tried Seventh Generation Dishwasher Gel. I previously had an immediate distrust of "environmentally friendly" cleaners due to my experiences with them not actually getting anything clean, but my preconceptions were shattered when I switched to this product. It is the only dish detergent I have used in this godforsaken contraption thus far that:

-Doesn't smell like chlorine (it's chlorine-free, hooray!)
-Doesn't leave spots all over my glasses
-at least most of the time, rids my plastic cups of the nasty smell they tend to retain
-Prevents my dishwasher from getting clogged up so frequently
-Lasts me more than a month before I have to buy a new bottle

So, that being said, I'd like to remind everyone that I don't receive a single penny from Seventh Generation or any other company whose products I may in the future recommend, and everything I have to say here comes from my own experiences. So by all means, give it a try if what you're using now isn't working out for you.