Home Made Laundry Detergent

Homemade Laundry Detergent

(This is just ONE way to make it. There are about a billion different ways :)

1/3 bar Fels Naptha - You can try other soaps as well, from what I have read this cleans the best tho. This is at Wal-Mart is the laundry isle!

½ cup washing soda - Also at Wal-Mart in the laundry isle!

½ cup borax powder - Also at Wal-Mart in the laundry isle!

~You will also need a small bucket, 2 gallon or 5 gallon will work. These are at walmart as well!

Step One : Grate 1/3 of the bar of soap.  Add this into a large pot. Add in about 6 cups of water and heat it till the soap melts. 

Step Two : Add in the washing sode & the borax. Stir untill it dissolves. Remove from heat.

Step Three : Pour 4 cups of warm/hot water into your bucket. Then add in the soap,washing soda, and borax mixture and stir it all together.

Step Four : Add in 2 gallons and 3 pints (basically around 6 cups) of water to the mixture. Stir everything together.

Step Five : Let the mixture set for about 24 hours. It will gel up, may look watery, may not. Thats totally normal! Just mix it up VERY well.

IF you have bottles to use(like old laundry detergent bottles, big juice bottles, milk jugs etc.) you can mix up the mixture very well and pour into those containers to easy storage! 

You can use any where up to 1/2 a cup per load. I've read some people only use 1/4th a cup per load! So just test out a few different amount and see which you like better. 

I plan to buy everything Tuesday(the 24th of April) and try this out! I will be adding pictures and everything once I can!