Laundry Detergent
Back in December I found this wonderful post by Samantha of The Handmade Dress. I have been looking to try homemade detergent for a while now and this just spurred me on. I went out and purchased all the supplies. A few days later I was shredding soap and adding the borax. I used the Fels-Napha bar for my first time making the detergent. While I will say in the beginning I did not care for the scent of it, it has grown on me. I do add a few drops of essential oils to the load to make it smell pretty. And so far, so good. The clothes coming out are nice and clean. Though next time I will try using Ivory soap.
Next is to make dish detergent (that is what the baking soda is for). It looks as easy as the laundry soap and I hope it preforms as well.
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I have all the stuff to make this sitting in my laundry room, but I had coupons to get my favorite ECO’s liquid laundry detergent at costco for $10.48 a jug & they do 210 washes in my HE machines… so I stocked up for the next 9 months. I am glad it is working well for you, I may have to try it when I run out!!!
As a warning I tried some of the dish detergents… yeah they left nasty residue on everything (even with vinegar in the rinse) and had to be re-washed. I tried using a lot less & it didn’t seem to help. Maybe you have a better recipe & better luck!
Kymy
Thanks Kymy. I will have to watch the dish stuff. But my dishwasher is terrible anyway, so maybe I won’t notice the difference! LOL