Making it Monday: Laundry Soap
I read a zillion laundry soap recipes and decided just to wing it with one of my own that’s similar. I’ll save some money because you only need 1/3 to 1/2 cup of soap.
All the ingredients are much kinder to the environment and you can reuse containers to store the laundry soap. I used a few coffee cans with lids. I swear the kids were pouring the liquid stuff straight out of the jar and the waste was driving me crazy.
I combined one 3 kg. (6 lbs, 10 oz) box of Arm and Hammer washing soda and one 2 kg. (4 lbs, 6 oz) box of Borax in a bucket. Then I grated a bar of Linda’s laundry soap and added that.
That and Sunlight were all they had to choose from at the grocery store. Because I like the laundry to smell fresh I also added three teaspoons of lemon essential oil.
Some have suggested putting the grated soap through the blender. I skipped that step and stir it up once in awhile so the grated soap blends in. The bottom line is that it works, it smells good, it saves you money and it’s earth friendly.
If you have a tried and true laundry soap recipe that works for you, let us know.
I love this idea. What is Sunlight?
Home recipes and reusing things is totally one of my favorite things to do.
what is sunlight? really - you don’t have that in USA?
a laundry detergent / soap - was first to go phosphate free but honestly i have not kept track - maybe sandra knows their environmental scorecard more recently
their old laundry soap bars used to be widely available - but where i live, the bar soap is hard to find
MUST go eat now.
Oh, Sunlight brand have bars of laundry soap. They had those and another one called Linda by Aurora. I have seen people mention Fels Naptha bars of soap in their recipes. I have never heard of that and wouldn’t know where to find it.
If you give it a go, let me know how it went. I’m relieved because I won’t have to buy any laundy soap for awhile.
I don’t have a recipe, but yours sounds good. I’ve been using this earth-friendly brand from an organic grocery store, but…it’s expensive and it doesn’t work as well as your basic Tide or what have you.
What is lemon essence? It wounds like it’s related to vanilla extract, which is great in pies but in laundry? Not so much.
Hi Jennifer! Lemon essential oil is the actual oil from lemons. I figure they stick lemon in every other product & I like the smell. I have also seen recipes suggesting other essential oils like lavender.