Laundry soap

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.