Homemade Laundry Soap

I am sure by now most of you mom's have heard about the new trend of making your own cleaning products. I have attempted the homemade fabric softener before and loved it. However I still had a stockpile of laundry detergent from 2 years ago. Well I have finally ran out and decided to give it a try. Here is the break down of the start up cost.

1 box of Borax-$4.94- 19 uses per box - cost per use 26 cents
1 box of Washing Soda-$3.22- 7 uses per box- cost per use 46 cents
1 bar of Fels Naptha Laundry Soap-$0.97- 1 bar per use 97 cents

That breaks down to $1.69 per batch. Each batch yields 640 loads, 10 gallons. Yep...you read that right 640 loads of laundry for $1.69. WOW!!!

Now this is how :

Ingredients:

4 Cups of Hot tap water
1 Fels-Naptha Soap Bar
1 Cup- Arm & Hammer Super Washing 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 of hot tap water. Add melted soap, washing soda, & Borax to bucket.
-Stir until well dissolved.
-Fill the bucket with more hot tap water until bucket is full.
-Stir well, cover the bucket with lid, and let it sit overnight to thicken (It will turn to gel, kinda like slime)

-Stir mixture to partially break down the gel.
- Fill a clean container with half mixture and half hot tap water.

-Shake before each use.

The answer to the question I know you are going to ask is YES!!! It was messy to make. But Ashlee had such a ball playing in the slime. HAHA. I only used a small amount of the mixture because I only had a couple of containers to put it in. But from everything I have read it will be just fine to store the unused amount in the sealed 5 gallon bucket for as long as needed.

I am using this soap on my laundry today, check back to see how it turned out.