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Laundry soap (homemade)

1/19/2018

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 I started making my own laundry soap, honestly, because my daughter started making her own because of cost,
​and after seeing how well it cleaned the clothes, I was sold!
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This laundry soap is so easy and so CHEAP to make:
Printable Recipe
Laundry Soap Recipe
Ingredients for One Batch:
1 Bar Soap (any kind) I use Ivory most of the time
​1 cup WASHING ​Soda (found in the laundry aisle)
1 cup Borax (any kind)
Use only 1 TABLESPOON per load. I do decrease slightly for delicate loads or extra small loads and increase slightly for an extra-large load or an extra dirty load.

​I usually make a larger batch most times by increasing the ingredients times four.


Grate the soap first. I use my kitchen mixer attachment to grate the soap. No scraped fingers and it comes out in a beautiful fluffy pile, ready to mix with the other ingredients. You can always use a grater though. I then rinse off the excess soap on the attachment grater and place in the dishwasher. 
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Add the borax and washing soda and stir until the ingredients are well mixed. 
At this time you may choose to add a scent booster. This is not an ingredient that is necessary though and does increase the cost slightly. Here are two brands that I have used. I only put in about 1/4 cup for an extra large batch of soap. You may choose to add more or less, or none at all. ​
THE TOTAL FOR ONE LOAD USING YOUR HOMEMADE LAUNDRY SOAP: ONLY 4 cents per load!
My hubby figured up the cost and went to all this work to put it down on a sheet of paper for me: 
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Check out my beautiful soap container!
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Container redo for homemade laundry soap

1/18/2018

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Hello and Happy New Year!
How many of you make your own laundry soap?
​Here are just a couple of reasons why you need to be making the change.
  • The cost of laundry soap versus the cost of making your own soap.
  • ​The warnings about laundry pods to children and pets.
  • ​The sensitivity towards allergies.
But, I wanted to store my homemade soap in a convenient location and have an easy way to dispense the soap to the machine, and the container had to be pretty!  After searching for the right container, I finally found what I wanted at Bed, Bath and Beyond. 
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First I took off the silver clamp part. Like I said, I wanted this to be easy, because who wants to clamp and unclamp, not me. 
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Then I took the seal off the container and spray painted the container, with Valspar Frosted spray paint.
I was ready to place the knob that I purchased at Hobby Lobby on top of the lid. I used an electric drill to drill the hole and threaded the
​bolt/knob through the lid and placed the washer and nut.
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​I added a blackboard label that you can just pull off the adhesive back and place on your container. The writing was done with ​the method of chalkboard transfer.  See how to do this here: ​https://www.shellknoblakegirl.com/chalkboard-transfer.html
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Here is my laundry soap container sitting on a little shabby chic stool my husband made to fit in my laundry room.
I will have a follow-up post of my recipe (actually my daughter's)
​ for my laundry soap, with a price comparison. Stay tuned!

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I thought you might enjoy a picture of my laundry room. The room is not very wide, so it is hard to take a picture that shows the whole room. 
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