Isn't that pretty? I made some this morning. The ingredients are simple:
The ratio is 1 cup of grated fels naptha to 1/2 c each of borax and washing soda. I made a triple batch this morning, using my mini food processor to chop up / grate the soap (I started out using a small cheese grater; which made a nice consistency but it was taking too long for me). I put the results through a strainer to get out the big lumps that won't dissolve very well in the washing machine.The recipe I found online says to use 1T for a normal load; 2T for a heavily soiled load. I am using a little scooper that was leftover from an old Oxyclean tub, which is just under 2T.
I just did some calculations and found that my new cost for laundry detergent, using this kind, is about 11 cents per load. If you were to buy your Fels Naptha in bulk online rather than one bar at a time at the store, it would be even cheaper. I did a little searching online for detergents and I couldn't find anything cheaper than around 24 cents/load... but I have always used much more expensive detergent than that; probably 35-40 cents a load or so. So, obviously this is much cheaper.
So far the clothes seem to be getting just as clean as normal. There is no "scent" to the detergent; I do love the smell of Tide but I hate the smell of some of the cheaper detergents (which is why I've always bought Tide) so no smell is definitely better than yucky smell! I am still using a little Downy for softening, scent, and anti-static-cling. So, there you have it!
4 comments:
Wow! Look at you! Just proving that you are more domestic than the rest of us.
Now what is the point of this? Why did you do even do it?
I was actually kind of wondering the same thing as Jamie. Why did you make laundry soap?
I mean, GREAT JOB and everything. :)
I had the ingredients and I was out of Tide. And I just wanted to :)
I like mine too! You can use vinegar as a fabric softener but it doesn't smell like downy. And I am not a fabric softener girl - I had bad skin growing up so my mom never did anything extra like scents or softeners - so I generally don't either. My sister's house always smells like Tide. Mine smells like nothing. Not sure if that is a good thing or not.
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