Recently, during a visit to watch a lady from our church make homemade bar soap, she shared a money-saving tip with me for making your own laundry detergent. According to her calculations, it ends up costing about $2.00 per 5 gallon bucket. For our family, that will be a huge savings. It wasn't hard to make either. Here is the recipe:
4 cups - hot tap water
1 Fels-Naptha bar soap (in soap isle at Meijer)
1 c Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda (in laundry isle at Meijer)
1/2 c Borax (in laundry isle at Meijer)
1. Grate bar of soap and add to a saucepan with hot water. Stir
continually over medium-low heat until soap dissolves and is melted.
2. Fill a 5 gallon bucket half full of hot tap water. Add melted soap, washing soda, and borax. Stir well until all powder is dissolved. Fill bucket to top with more hot water. Stir, cover and let sit overnight to thicken.
3. Next morning, stir up with your hands (will feel like jello) and then fill a used, clean laundry soap dispenser. Shake before each use (will gel).
4. To use for top loading washing machine: 3/8 c in each load.
2 comments:
Just one question... so how does it work? :)
To me, it works just as good as anything else we use. We've always gotten whatever is on sale or the cheapest. I'll have to give you some at Christmas.
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