How to make your own home-made Laundry Soap

With 3 simple, inexpensive items you can have your own Laundry Detergent. You can get up to 180 loads with 1 batch!! Which comes out to about $2.00 per batch. This is worth it!!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Fels-Naptha Bar Soap (or Regular Bar Soap), Borax (or Oxi) and Washing Soap

1. Homemade Liquid Laundry Soap- Front or Top Loading Machine
   Large Bucket with lid
   4 Cups hot water
   1 Fels-Naptha soap bar
   1 Cup Washing Soda
   ½ Cup Borax or Oxi
   5 Gallons of water

2. Grate the bar soap into small pieces. Heat up 4 cups of water until boiling. Add bar soap and whisk. Stir on med-high heat until completely dissolved. It takes about 5 mins.

3. Fill 5 gallon bucket 1/2 full with water. Add dissolved bar soap to mixture. Stir.

4. Measure out the washing soda and Borax. Add to bucket mixture and stir until dissolved. Fill bucket an inch from the top with more warm water.

5. 
    
   This is what it looks like

   Put a lid on it and let sit over night. If you would like to use an old liquid dispenser container you can dilute the soap with 1/2 detergent to 1/2 water and shake to use. Otherwise you can use 1/2 cup of detergent per large load of laundry.

Tips & Warnings

• You can these items in the cleaning/laundry aisle of a well stocked Grocery Store. You can also find them online.
• avoid heavily scented bar soap
• recipe courtesy of www.duggarfamily.com

[nanamusicgirl]

on 10/6/2009 I really appreciate this!!!! I love it!!!
Gotta try it! 5 stars.

[froglips101]

on 5/26/2009 Awesome!! Call me if you need help!

[lastoryweaver]

on 5/26/2009 Thanks for trying the recipe first. I think I'm ready to make some now.

[ecm1980]

on 5/21/2009 This is seriously awesome! I am going to try that.