Make Your Own Laundry Detergent

Whole Lotta laundry Soap

(Liquid Version)

Ingredients:

·         1 C Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda*

·         1 C Borax

• 1 whole bar Fels-Naptha  heavy duty laundry soap**
• Water

*Must be WASHING SODA.  Baking soda won't work, neither will Arm & Hammer detergent.

**other soaps:  Zote, Pure & natural, Ivory,  Sunlight

1)     Fill a 5 gallon bucket half full with hot tap water.  Set aside.

2)     grate the soap bar. (you can use a cheese grater or a food processor)

3)     heat 4 cups of water to nearly boiling

4)     add grated soap, heat and stir until completely dissolved remove from heat

5)     Add washing soda, and borax.  Stir well until all powder is dissolved.

6)     Pour into 5 gal. bucket with water

7)     Fill bucket to top with more hot water.  Stir, cover, and let sit overnight to thicken.

In the morning, the soap will have a thick, jell-like consistency.   Stir and break up.   Fill your containers 1/2 full with soap, and fill the rest of the way with more water! Shake or stir.  I usually shake before each load

Yield: 10 Gallons.  

To use:

 Top load machine: use 5/8 c (approx 180 loads)

 Front load machine: use ¼ c (approx 640 loads)

Optional: Add scent soap with 1-3 TBS Scent Crystals (Downey, Purex, etc) or your favorite essential oil

Awesome laundry Soap

(Powdered version)

Ingredients:

·         1 C Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda*

·         1 C Borax

• 1 (4.5oz) bar Ivory, or other laundry soap** - finely grated

Mix it all together and store in an airtight container

To Use:   1 Tbs per load (up to 2 Tbs for heavy soil)

Yield: 32 oz (about 64 loads)

These are safe for use with septic tanks because they contain zero phosphates and zero fillers (like montmorillonite clay) that cause commercial powder detergents to clog lines. They are also completely non-toxic and will not harm necessary septic bacteria like toxic detergents and antibacterial soaps.

Source:

http://www.diynatural.com/homemade-laundry-detergent-soap/

Super Easy No-grating

liquid version

3 Tablespoons Borax
3 Tablespoons Washing Soda
2 Tablespoons Dawn Dish soap

Put these ingredients in a one gallon jug. Pour 4 cups boiling water into the jug. Swirl until ingredients are dissolved in the liquid. Cool. Then fill almost to the top with cold water. The bubbles will overflow out of the bottle.  The slower you add the water, the less suds you’ll have to deal with.  I love this because you can pick an awesome scent with the Dawn dish soap. But original Dawn works the best because it gets grease out. The other scents may not have the degreaser. :o)

Use: between ½ and 1 cup depending upon load size and soil level 

Source:

http://www.onegoodthingbyjillee.com/