It's a Team's Life
Homemade Laundry Soap
We do laundry once a week and it is amazing how much laundry two people can create in this time. We have a laundry bag, our laundry soap, Clorox 2, sometimes quarters, and our hangers. All of this is a bit much and it is heavy.
I started hearing people talk about homemade laundry soap and also hearing the results and how much cheaper it is to make then to buy and I decided to give it a try. I found Tipnut.com, which had a bunch of recipes for laundry soap, and I determined the easiest for me on the road was a dry mix.
I used powdered recipe #9 that only uses 1/8 of a cup of the mix per load of laundry. The recipe consists of:
12 cups of Borax
8 cups of Baking Soda
8 cups of Washing Soda
8 cups grated bar soap
For the bar soaps required in the recipes, you could try Fels-Naptha, Ivory, Sunlight, Kirk’s Hardwater Castile, and Zote. Avoid using heavily perfumed soaps.
This recipe made enough laundry soap that I was able to fill a quart freezer baggie and have plenty left at home to refill the bag. The results are nice, the laundry bag is much lighter to haul into the truck stop laundry rooms, and the laundry is not full of perfumed smells.
To see more of the recipes visit there web site:
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