An easy, 20 minute recipe for laundry soap that will save you money!
4 cups hot water
1 Fels-Naptha soap bar
1 cup washing soda (NOT baking soda)
1/2 cup borax
-Grate bar of soap and add to saucepan with water. Stir continually over medium-low heat until soap dissolves and is melted
-Fill a 5 gallon bucket half full with hot water.
-Add melted soap, washing soda and borax.
-Stir well until all powder is dissolved
-Fill bucket to top with more hot water.
-Stir, cover, and let sit overnight to thicken
-Stir mixture in the morning (or whenever you next check on it)
-Fill a used, clean laundry soap dispenser HALF full with the soap and then fill the rest of the way with water.
-Shake before each use.
OPTIONAL: Add 10-15 drops of essential oil per 2 gallons (add once soap has cooled)
Yield: Liquid soap recipe makes 10 gallons (remember, you're diluting what you have in the 5 gallon bucket once you put it in the soap dispenser).
Front loading machine: 1/4 cup per load (640 loads)
Top loading machine: (5/8 cup per load)
I live on a farm, and have a very active stepson. We wash lots of clothes. This stuff works and lasts forever! It cost me $12 for the materials, and I still have most of the borax and washing soda left for future preparations.
