By: Amy Dienta
Recently, I’ve been switching all my store bought cleaners and soaps to more natural cleaners. I’ve starting making our laundry soap myself. We have been using the same batch for 6 months now and I have enough to make another 2 batches. It’s great quality- it even gets out baby food and baby smells! We have a top loading HE machine and its working great with this soap. Check out my recipe:
Homemade laundry soap
Ingredients:
- Borax- stain removal and whitening- $3.00 – Walmart
- Washing soda- odor removal – $2.49- Market Basket
- Soap bar- degreasing – fel naphtha 99 cents -Market Basket
Instructions:
- Grate 1/2 the bar soap finely with a cheese grater
- Add 2 cups washing soda and 2 cups borax and the grated soap in to a bucket, put on the top and shake to mix.
- Add 1 teaspoon to each load, in the wash itself not in the detergent cup. For really dirty loads add 2teaspoons.
My laundry machine is in the basement, so I don’t worry about my sons getting down there but if your laundry is anywhere where kids go I would put it in a container with a child proof lid. I still use a dryer bar for fabric softner but when the bar runs out I will try and make my own fabric softner as well!
