Laundry Detergent!

Laundry Detergent! 


Wow, I just noticed I didn't put my recipe for laundry detergent into my blog yet! Well here goes:

If you have read my blog from the beginning, then you might have the products that I mention in my ingredients listing for simple laundry detergent that works and costs WAY LESS to use than the store bought stuff!

This detergent works in High Efficiency machines! My sister uses it in hers, and is always asking me for more! So I gave her a full 2.5 gallon batch the last time so I won't have to make it so often. Usually I split a batch between us and with her having two little boys she uses it a lot faster than I do! I guess I would too if my kids still played in the dirt and mud! haha!

So to make this detergent is easy. Takes me about 15 minutes from start to finish.

INGREDIENTS:


1/3 bar of Fels-Naptha
1 Cup of Borax
1 Cup of Washing Soda
2.5 Gallons of water, seperated.
Large Bucket
Cover for bucket.
2 - 3 Empty gallon juice/milk containers, something with a screw on lid.
Funnel

That's all you need! Cost is about a buck!

INSTRUCTIONS:


1) Bring 1/2 gallon of the water to a boil!

2) You can either cut the Fels-Naptha into thirds, or just mark it at about the 1/3 point... doesn't have to be exact. Then take a cheese grater, and grind it into dust. If you want to try to do in a food processor well i suggest you cut it into small chunks. I use my 4 sided cheese grater, and use the side that has all those bumpy things on the side... Usually it has 4 cuts it can make, one side is like a big cheese slice, then another is for large shredded, then smaller fine shredding and then the side I would never use on cheese..  that is the side you want to use... but you can use the Fine Grate too if you like!

3) When the water comes to a boil, dump the Fels-Naptha into the water and stir until dissolved.

4) Turn off the heat

5) Add 1 cup of Borax, stir until dissolved.

6) Add 1 Cup of Washing Soda, stir until dissolved.

7) Pour into a large bucket, I use a 5 gallon bucket from Home Depot. Add the other two gallons of water and stir for about a minute to mix thoroughly.

8) Cover the bucket (or other container) with a lid or plastic wrap or even a towel, just to keep dirt and stuff out of it.

9) Let it sit overnight or until it gels.

10) In the morning or later in the day, you will take the cover off and notice that the mix is either gelled up or is the consistency of Egg Drop Soup, it actually can look just like that. Stir it thoroughly. Use a funnel and bottle it into a few gallon jugs.

Makes about 2.5 gallons of Laundry Detergent.

Use 1/2 to 1 cup of soap in your washer per load. This soap is LOW SUDSING, so can be used in HIGH EFFICIENCY washers. 2.5 gallons / 1/2 cup = 80 loads.. for the price of about a buck! Tell me where you can get that at the store?

A bar of Fels-Naptha is around 98 cents at Walmart or WinCo, 3 bucks at a regular store!
A box of Borax is about 3 bucks, and well you only use a cup for each batch, I think you get about 8 cups or more from a box. Same with the Washing Soda, a box is about $2.50...

Water is whatever it costs you per gallon!

Try it, even as an experiment it doesn't cost much at all!

Please let me know if it works for you or not!