A new laundry soap recipe Options

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A new laundry soap recipe

Mix together 16 cups baking soda (plain old baking soda-here's a use
for that bulk soda found at the feed store!!),

12 cups Borax,

8 cups grated castile or glycerin soap flakes.

Add to this 3 tablespoons lavender, lemon, or grapefruit essential oil. (Some may think that the essential oil is for fragrance only but most have antibacterial
properties and should be considered a vital ingredient for getting
your clothes clean.)

Amazingly, the recipe says to use only 1/8 cup
(that's 2 tablespoons!!) per load and that this recipe will last a
family of four for approximately one year!!

[gardnmom View Member Profile]

Good find Hill, grapefruit seed extract will help to purify your water also. Lavender is very healing, and lemon is one of my favorite whiteners.

[Linda View Member Profile]

thanks

[Wheeler View Member Profile]

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Add to this 3 tablespoons lavender, lemon, or grapefruit essential oil.

Old dummy has a question about this recipe... Is this added to the whole batch [seems like it would be hard to work in] or with each load of clothes?

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I have not tried this recipe yet myself. It was given to me by a good friend and true lifelong homesteader.

I used to make bath salts and I mixed oils with it. I found it fairly easy to do as long as I used a bigger pot or bowl than I needed and had plenty of extra mixing room and a good spoon or fork to work it in just like you'd work the sugar and shortning together in a cookie recipe.

I hope this helps.

[inkskin View Member Profile]

Did your friend say how well it cleaned her clothes? I wonder what this comes out to costwise?

Blessings,
Grammy G

[Shepherd View Member Profile]

Where can I get castile or glycerin soap flakes?

[gardnmom View Member Profile]

one way is to buy either the castile or glycerine bar soap and grate it.

[Bamboo View Member Profile]

I just made my first batch of homemade laundry soap (different recipe) and I love it. It makes my clothes softer and I don't even have to use as much fabric softener (I use about 1/3 of what the manufacter suggests).

The recipe I used is:

1/3 bar of Fels Naptha, grated.
1/2 cup borax
1/2 cup washing soda

Mix the grated Fels Naptha with 2 cups of boiling water and stir until dissolved. Then carefully add the rest of the ingredients. When done, add this mixture to 2 gallons of water and store. I used an old 300 oz bottle left from my last purchase of laundry soap. You will need to shake the bottle before using as it settles some. It looks like soapy water (not as thick as Tide or Cheer).

The smell is nice and my clothes are really clean. They even feel cleaner. I figure that 300 oz cost me less than a dollar. Fels Naptha was $1.09, borax was $2.89 (big box), and washing soda was $2.39 (big box). For basically less than $7.00 I will have a lot of laundry soap....

[gardnmom View Member Profile]

My DD has used the dry ingredients mixed and spooned about 2 tablespoons into a cup of very hot water to desolve and poured into washer, solved the problem of jugs, and requires less storage room.

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