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Who had detergent recipe w/ simple green, oxygen cleaner
I copied down the ingredients and measurements, but not the instructions. Can you repost please?
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Re: Who had detergent recipe w/ simple green, oxygen cleaner
Me!
Here you go:1 55 oz. box Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda
1/2 cup Mule Team Borax
2 Cups Oxygen Cleaner- recommend Sun ($5 @ Dollar General)
1/2 cup Simple Green
Mix dry ingredients in a bucket then add wet and stir until clumps are gone. 2 T for diapers and ? Cup for clothes. Predissolve in a jar of hot water for cold washes as it won?t dissolve well that way.
If I mix all the dry ingredients and then add the Simple green then it usually mixes up well. Sometimes it's a tiny bit lumpy but it's never a big deal.
I'm trying to find the original recipe post on the diaper board that I frequent because it had a cost breakdown but I haven't found it yet. It is cloth diaper safe - 2 TB for a full cloth diaper load (4 TB or 1/4 C for regular clothes). I've been using this for probably 7 months now and it works great.
Wait - found it:
Cost -
Washing Soda 2.99 Use Full Box 2.99
Borax 2.99 Use 1/2 cup .30
Simple Green 2.89 Use 1/2 cup .50
Oxygen Clnr 5.00 Use 2 cups 1.25
Total Investment 13.87/ 5.04 (Used in batch)
To be fair I'm adding 7 % tax 14.84/ 5.39
72 diaper loads = 7.5 cents a load
36 regular loads = 15 cents a load
She also recommends adding powdered calgon water softener (1/2 cup) to the batch but it's impossible to find and while I have found it, I think it's useless. The powdered stuff is a different makeup than the liquid stuff and it has never worked for me in softening my water. I have mildly hard water so I just add a capful of Calgon liquid water softener to my diapers and nothing to my clothes. Recipe works great like that.