How to Make Homemade Laundry Soap

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By Lisa LaVergne
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Dirty Laundry

Save money by making your own easy to use laundry soap.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

5 gallon bucket with lid
One bar of your favorite soap, grated
1 cup Arm and Hammer Washing Soda
Essential oil (optional)

Step 1

1. Grate one whole bar of your favorite bath soap.
Step 2

2. Put grated soap into a medium sized sauce pan, and add enough water to just cover soap. Over medium heat, melt soap flakes, stirring until completely dissolved.
Step 3

3. Fill a 5 gallon bucket about 3/4 of the way full with warm water. Add melted soap mixture to the bucket and stir until well mixed.
Step 4

4. Add one cup of Arm and Hammer Washing soda to the bucket. Stir until well mixed.
Step 5

5. If you desire to add an essential oil to your laundry soap for fragrance, you would add the oil now after having mixed the other ingredients. Only add a small amount at a time, mixing in between additions, until desired fragrance is reached.
Step 6

6. Allow mixture to cool, and then place your lid onto your bucket. (The mixture will gel when cooled.)
Step 7

7. Add 1 cup of laundry soap gel to washer per load. For extremely dirty clothing, add approximately 1 1/2 cups.

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LisaSmegal said

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on 7/5/2009 Lenora, I also have an HE front loader and have used this soap with no difficulties at all. Since there are virtually no suds with this soap, it is safe to use in front loader machines.

lenora2 said

on 7/5/2009 I have a HE front loader. Would this soap be safe for it? Does anyone know?

michellen said

on 5/7/2009 What an interesting idea! I use Biokleen but should I decide to change I just might give this a try.

on 11/20/2008 We have been using the soap for a week now and it works fantastic. We still have to use bleach on the socks but everything else seems to be really clean. I don't know why more people aren't doing this....