I am so glad I did! It is ridiculously easy to make. Once you buy your ingredients, the made laundry soap is crazy cheap, and it works perfectly! No more buying expensive Seventh Generation soap for us!
Here is the recipe, again pulled from Progressive Pioneer's post. However, on her blog, she used a t, for teaspoon and it just seemed like not enough soap to me, so I changed the recipe and used a T, for tablespoon, for each type of soap.
You can get all the ingredients at your grocery store. I bought the washing soda and borax at Publix and the naptha soap at New Leaf.
3T naptha soap grated (I used my cheese grater, and washed it good afterward, but you probably should buy a separate grater just for soap)
4T washing soda
4T borax
5 cups cold water
3/4 cup hot water
essential oils ( Iused lavender and tea tree oil, because that is what I use for my diaper spray and all purpose spray)
Melt the soap, with the 3/4 cup water in a pot on the stove. Stir frequently. Take off the heat and when it has cooled a bit, add the cold water and essential oils. Then add it to an old laundry soap dispenser container, shake it up and viola! Homemade Laundry Soap!
P.S. I do not use this on my cloth diapers, I use Rocking Green for that. However, there are other recipes on the web that are suppossed to be fine for cloth diapers.
P.S.S. I tripled the recipe when I made it, to make a big batch.
If you're ever interested, I have a recipe for laundry soap that we use on our cloth diapers (and have for almost two years now) and our regular laundry. I buy the ingredient at Publix and Target. I make a double batch and it lasts my messy (all boys besides me and two of them in diapers) family of five three to four weeks.
ReplyDeleteOh, and it's a powder - not liquid.
I would love the recipe! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteHere's the original recipe link: http://talk.sheknows.com/f1002/cloth-diaper-detergent-711212/
ReplyDeleteI've tweaked it a bit over time. I add a dropperful or two of tea tree oil, use the liquid calgon, and use closer to half a cup per load.
Thank you! I will try this soon and let you know how it works for us.
ReplyDeleteIf you'd rather not buy all the stuff for it, I'd be happy to give you a "sample" bag of ours (I'm making more today) - what with us being local and all. (:
ReplyDeleteoh, that would be so wonderful. Penelope has very sensitive skin and we battle eczema. I would love to be able to test it out and see how her skin reacts before committing to the indgredients. Thank you so much!
ReplyDeleteMy personal email is stephanie.brandt.love@gmail.com
Just made this today! So pumped! I have been using the Purex Free & Clear for so long, but have seriously missed having that "fresh laundry" smell. I refuse to use all the yucky, chemical-y stuff so I just let it go. I'm so happy to have this recipe! I got the Dr. Bronner's Peppermint. So Peppermint, Lavender, and Tea Tree oil aroma is filling my home as I do laundry and I couldn't be happier!
ReplyDeleteDo you use the same amount of this soap as you did the store bought kind? For example, if you used a cap full of store bought stuff, do you use a cap full of this as well?
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@jessica...yay! go you! yes, I use the same amount. I experimented in the beginning to see how much I needed to use, I wanted to see if I could use less. So you might want to try and play around and see what is best for your machine. From what I understand, most machines actually need way less than detergent companies say to use.
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