Homemade Laundry Detergent!
So here is what you need:
Fels Naptha soap
(found in the laundry soap aisle at the store...less than $2)
Super Washing Soda
(huge box about $5)
20 Mule Team Borax
(about $5 a box)
Grate your entire bar of soap.
Easy!
Add soap to large pot of 6 cups of hot water...
with the heat on medium/high.
Once the soap dissolves...
add 1 1/2 cup of washing soda and 1 1/2 cup of borax...
add 12 cups of water...don't breath in the steam!
Pour into a 5 gallon bucket and add about 4 gallons of water.
stir well. It will get gelly and chunky...Perfect!
I use a pitcher and a funnel and fill up my old laundry
soap bottles or cleaned out milk jugs...or quart mason jars!
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Homemade laundry soap is cheap.
I've been making it a couple years now.
It's like $1 a gallon!
Here's my plan for neighbor gifts
for Christmas this year!
1 quart of soap...25 cents,
mason jar...about 70 cents...
Under $1! :)
And super useful...and not fattening!
(Feel FREE to copy my genius idea!)
Fels Naptha soap
(found in the laundry soap aisle at the store...less than $2)
Super Washing Soda
(huge box about $5)
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20 Mule Team Borax
(about $5 a box)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxuQ3wLAzlQxhC2UKkViYozLhWPISJwfjvs72kSA1FnxW4TW_CFSwVsB1vG-gyuuGaVXp5GdZ96TzvGcx-DSMgRHYXlTifqNcFhVSH_uN0wEOc0OnThrxp27ezp0QXhh7_GU1WJ-1Dcyk/s400-rw/borax.jpg)
Grate your entire bar of soap.
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Easy!
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Add soap to large pot of 6 cups of hot water...
with the heat on medium/high.
Once the soap dissolves...
add 1 1/2 cup of washing soda and 1 1/2 cup of borax...
add 12 cups of water...don't breath in the steam!
Pour into a 5 gallon bucket and add about 4 gallons of water.
stir well. It will get gelly and chunky...Perfect!
I use a pitcher and a funnel and fill up my old laundry
soap bottles or cleaned out milk jugs...or quart mason jars!
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOlyGsfBh9f_vfTbu78_Jb-Qk_Pm4QlvEf-es9hVnTsPQHa5bM0dSbkdxm6mghswbzfCeheLGHE8od-RPZ207pb_pr2D6ZYW67Dxu1iWHLq9ND1qlWz4trV_D2Xsxw2lBKh39oraLQmPs/s400-rw/laundry+soap+plastic+bottles+diy.jpg)
The soap is a plain scent (severe allergies in this family to scents)
You can add essential oils...I've heard.
I shake it up before I pour it out!
This works great as a stain fighter too!
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I will never pay high laundry soap prices again.
Love it! I've used it in High Efficiency machines and
regular washing machines...both work GREAT!
(We wash REGULARY...I still have 2 that pee the bed frequently!)
And this is perfect!
Love it! I've used it in High Efficiency machines and
regular washing machines...both work GREAT!
(We wash REGULARY...I still have 2 that pee the bed frequently!)
And this is perfect!
Linking up to THESE parties this week!
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