Thursday, April 15, 2010

Recipe for inexpensive laundry soap

You can't beat this for good cleaning and easy on the pocket book.

Liquid Laundry Soap

4 cups water
1 Fels-Naptha bar of soap
1 cup Washing Soda
1/2 cup Borax
Essential oil

Grate the bare of Fels-Naptha and dissolve in 4 cups water over warm burner. Fill 5 gallon bucket half full with warm water and add Washing Soda and Borax. Stir until dissolved. Add dissolved Fels-Naptha and add warm water to fill remainder of bucket. Add essential oil for fragrance and stir every 15 to 30 minutes until thick. Use 1/4 cup for front load and 1/2 cup for top load machines.

Works great! I don't use essential oils because they are expensive. I like my clothes to smell clean not perfumed.

Works great.

1 comment:

  1. I've been washing my clothes this way ever since you told me about it and made me my first batch. I'm washing my clothes with this right now =) It works great!

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