I made home made laundry detergent!!!!!!!

Here is exactly what we done, and bought :)

1 box of 20 mule team Borax
1 Box of Arm & Hammer WASHING soda.
1 bar of Fels-Naptha soap. About 9 dollars together at walmart.

Cut fels naptha bar into 3 pieces.
Get 1/2 cup of BORAX ready
Get 1/2 cup of Washing Soda ready.

First step.
Grate ONE piece of the bar soap into a HUGE pot.
Heat on LOW and add in 6 cups of water.
Stir untill it all mixes together really well and the soap melts.

Second Step.
Add in the 1/2 cup Borax. Stir until dissolves.
Add in 1/2 cup of Washing Soda. Stir untill dissolves.


Third Step.
Continue stiring for a few minutes. It will bubble up and smell great!

Fourth Step.
Add in 10 cups of HOT water.
Add in 1 GALLON of HOT water.
Mix all together.

Fifth Step.
Have empty containers ready(milk jugs, juice jugs, old detergent/fabric softener bottles).
Pour mixture into bottles. Fill bottles about 3/4th way full.

LEAVE OVER NIGHT. About 16-20 hours. It may gel up, and looks really nasty in the morning. Just give it a SUPER good SHAKE and then use it!

Start with 1/2 cup and see how you like it. I have been using 1/3 cup and it works great and smells great!

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!

Frugal Living

I am doing research for ways to save more money. Money is tight right now for us, so every little bit saved helps us out in the long run! So, while reading up on ways to save money I came across "Home Made Laundry Detergent". Of course I checked it out, and from what I have read it seems super easy! So then I searched for "Home Made Fabric Softener" and found ways to make that home made as well! 
   I am super excited to try these out! I'm going to wait till I'm just about out of my regular laundry detergent is gone, so I can reuse the bottles for my home made batches! I will post pictures and all the websites I find the "recipes" at on here once I get more information. 
      As everyone knows I love to coupon, but lately since everyone is cutting back on Couponers its getting a little tough! Laundry detergent never seems to be on sale any more which drives me crazy. I hate spending money, so if by making my own detergent and fabric softener I can save even more money(And it HAS to work and get the clothes clean and smelling nice!) then I'm going to do it! 
    I also cloth diaper, so that saves us money in the long run. Its getting time to buy more prefolds and diapers for Ryder and the new baby. I want to make sure I have enough for both children to be in diapers for a couple days in between washing. I know with a new born and two other children laundry will not be number one on my mind! lol
    
I love to coupon. But finding the time lately is getting harder and harder. And the stores are limiting everything and its a big mess. So the more stuff that I can make at home, for really cheap, the better! :)




Here's a picture from my last laundry detergent couponing trip back in Feb. 

And even with coupons they were about 3 dollars a bottle. From what I have read on making your own detergent, if you find the right combination of things and get the cheapest deals on the things you need, then you can get by with only paying 0.05cents a load.  :) 


 If anyone has any other home made recipes etc. for ANYTHING around the house let me know! I can't wait to try the ones I found tonight!