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Everyone else is saying vinegar, which will certainly work.
But if you're like me and cannot stand the stench of vinegar, then I recommend citric acid. 2 tablespoons to a liter of water is a good place to start, but you can most likely find dosage specific to your machine with some googling.
Also, you can get ~2kg of citric acid for 15~25 $or€. I use it to descale everything from coffee contraptions, to shower heads; and a big bag of it lasts us 1½ years. Our water is fairly hard too, about 160 TDS.
Agree with this alternative, also very reasonable. That being said I've found if you clean things regularly with vinegar you start to sensitize to the smell fairly quickly. I can barely smell it anymore.