Homemade laundry soap

tatorsandgators · December 2012

Do you any of you use it? What recipe? Anything I should avoid?

I thought about trying this one

3 Tablespoons borax
3 tablespoons washing soda
2 tablespoons Original Blue Dawn dishwashing liquid.
Find a one-gallon container with a tight-fitting lid. Pour in the borax, soda and liquid Dawn. Add two cups of very hot water. Apply the lid and shake until the soda and borax have dissolved. Fill the container with cold water. Label and you're done. To use: Add 1 to 2 cups to each olad of laundry depending on the size and soil levels.

Will that work?

nanabanana06 · December 2012

Might. I've used 2 different recipes. One was with Fels Napatha, Borax, and Washing soda. It created like a jelly you would scoop out and toss in. That worked really well for a while. Then I did the 2 parts borax, 2 parts washing soda, and 1 part oxy clean. That one worked a little better and was much easier to make.

ourlifeflyingby · December 2012

Nana_Osaki06:
Might. I've used 2 different recipes. One was with Fels Napatha, Borax, and Washing soda. It created like a jelly you would scoop out and toss in. That worked really well for a while. Then I did the 2 parts borax, 2 parts washing soda, and 1 part oxy clean. That one worked a little better and was much easier to make.

I'm using the second recipe and while it worked great at my moms in TN, the water in KS is so rediculously hard where we live I caved and bought hard rock from rockin green. I'm still gonna be using the home made on our clothes though!

adoxyinherear · December 2012

ourlifeflyingby:
Nana_Osaki06:
Might. I've used 2 different recipes. One was with Fels Napatha, Borax, and Washing soda. It created like a jelly you would scoop out and toss in. That worked really well for a while. Then I did the 2 parts borax, 2 parts washing soda, and 1 part oxy clean. That one worked a little better and was much easier to make.
I'm using the second recipe and while it worked great at my moms in TN, the water in KS is so rediculously hard where we live I caved and bought hard rock from rockin green. I'm still gonna be using the home made on our clothes though!

I used the second recipe, too, but our water is too hard. I have a huge tub of it now and can't use it, sadness!