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!

This laundry soap is so easy and so CHEAP to make:

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. 

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. ​

My hubby figured up the cost and went to all this work to put it down on a sheet of paper for me: 

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.

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. 

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. 

Then I took the seal off the container and spray painted the container, with Valspar Frosted spray paint.

Here is my laundry soap container sitting on a little shabby chic stool my husband made to fit in my laundry room.

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.