A few years ago I Googled directions for making laundry detergent, made up a batch and HATED it. We didn’t like how it cleaned ( or rather didn’t clean) our clothes and so I scrapped the idea.
Several months ago, the economic climate being what it is and the fact that I had run out of our mega bucket of Charlie’s Laundry Powder
I wanted something that would be effective, inexpensive, and easy to make. I preferred to not have to buy specialized ingredients because with 9 children shopping at several different shops is unappealing and that can also drive up the cost.
There are many recipes for laundry soap out there and most are quite similar using soap, soda, and sometimes borax.
This is the recipe that works best for us because 1)it’s cheap, 2) it’s easy, 3) I always have the ingredients on hand and 4) we love how well it works.
Laundry Soap Recipe
2 gal. hot water
1 bar of soap, grated
2 c. baking soda (not washing soda)
This recipe just calls for a bar of soap. We use the same soap that we use in the shower. I’ve read that Fels-Naptha
Grate the soap. If your grater is in the dishwasher, like mine was, wash it first, unless you want cheese scented clothing.
If your children come running whenever you head to the kitchen, just dare them to try a pinch of this. It does look good enough to eat, but I’ve never had any takers.
Put the grated soap in a saucepan, cover with water and cook on low until the soap melts. Be patient, it takes a while. I don’t think that I’ve ever gotten every little bit melted completely, but take some time and get most of it melted into the water.
Now add 2 gallons of hot water into large bucket. Add the dissolved, melted soap and stir well.
Add the baking soda and stir again.
Use a half a cup on regular loads and a full cup on heavily soiled loads. That’s it!
After sitting your soap will be lumpy and gloppy, that’s normal, just stir well before use.
It is nice to have some old washed out liquid laundry containers to store your homemade laundry soap, then you can just shake and pour in to the handy measuring cup cap, but if you are cheap frugal like us, then just store in a lidded container and use a regular measuring up to stir and scoop.
Making my own laundry soap “Works for Me.” Check out all the other WFMW posts at “We are THAT Family“.For several other laundry soap and some laundry detergent recipes check out Tipnut’s list.
Be sure to read my other laundry or money saving posts or how to create a workable schedule or ideas on Bible reading for kids. Check the categories listed just under the picture at the top of the page for more practical ideas.
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Great tip~! I am slowly trying to break out of my ONLY brand name snob addiction, TIDE. This might do the trick!
Have a great day!
Peace
*~Michelle~*
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We make our own laundry soap too. I love it. It works better for me than the stuff we had been buying and is so much cheaper.
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Sounds grate! (Pun intended) Looking forward to trying it out.
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Awesome, thanks for posting. I have been wanting to make my own laundry soap for a while but could not find washing soda anywhere except online and then it wasn’t so frugal. I will try this recipe!
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I make the powdered version. It’s the same recipe without the water.
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I have been making my own laundry detergent for over a year now and I love it! I make the powdered version of this recipe though, because I don’t have enough room to store the liquid version!
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This is my exact recipe. I have tried the felz naptha one and don’t like it as much.
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Thanks for the tip! I’ll have to try it, but am interested in the comments about the dry recipe. Wondering how much of the dry you would add to a washload?
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The dry recipes that I have seen call for about 2T. of detergent per full load.
Check out the link in my post for some recipes for laundry powder.
Blessings,
Kimberly
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Great tip,I’d like to make the dry, but is this ok to use in HE washers???
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sawin,
This should recipe should be fine in an HE washer. Actually according to one of the articles I read it should be ideal because it produces a low amount of suds.
It is recommended, however, that you make a liquid version of the soap in order to be sure of everything dissolving completely. The premise of the HE is to use minimal water, so this ensures that their is enough water to wash effectively.
Blessings,
Kimberly
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This is great. Check out the worth of earth and help us add to our discussion! Thanks!
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So I make mine with the washing soda and the Fels Naptha – do you find the baking soda works as well? Just wondering if I should try the baking soda instead of the washing soda (Oh and I put Borax in mine as well.
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Kimberly Reply:
April 2nd, 2009 at 11:05 pm
I have not made the soap with washing soda, so can’t be of help to you there. I’m thinking about putting some Borax in, how much do you use?
Oh, I’m glad you like reading my blog!
Blessings,
Kimberly
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You told me in your comment on my blog that you had a recipe for laundry soap and I found it. Thanks for the tip. This recipe sounds very simple – I very much like the idea of using bath soap rather than having to run out and find that other stuff.
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Kimberly,
Did you try adding the borax? How much did you add to this recipe? I made my own detergent and am on my 2nd recipe. I particularly do NOT like the one I am using. I am interested in trying this one. I obviously have ALOT of dirt at my house and need something that will really work. Do you think this will do the job?
Thanks a Million!
Lesli
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Kimberly Reply:
April 18th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
I haven’t added the borax and I haven’t had any problems with stain removal so far and we have some dirt kids. However, I think that adding it may be a good idea. Let me know if this works for you, I’m curious to hear what others think.
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I did it! I made my laundry soap!!! Thanks for the inspiration! I used a different recipe but I really like how it is working. I would have never thought of making my own soap for the laundry, though I make cold process soap for our bodies. This is right up my alley. I love the “unscent” that it leaves on our clothes and sheets. Everything is clean and it costs about 1/10th as much…Oh joy!
I found washing soda and borax as well as Felz Naptha at my local Fred Meyer(Kroeger).
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I love the idea of using home made laundry soap, but have a question. Our youngest son, Joey, has very sencative skin. For years we have only used ALL detergent for this reason. For bath soap he has to have moisturizing body wash.(like dove or oil of olay generic) His skin will get very ashy and crack if you use anything else. (we proved this on the camp trip when we used Axe bath soap for all 4 guys) Can you use moisturizing body soap instead of a ground up bar? Would the moisturizer mess up the clothing? Or should we just suck it up and stick with the ALL??
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Linda Reply:
November 11th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
My husband has sensitive skin and my two kids do also but I have not had any problems with making home made laundry soap out of another mild soap. Perhaps you can try a bar of ivory or a bar laundry soap called zote. I find Zote at Big Lots and Kmart for right under $1 a bar (14.1oz). It’s cheap enough to try and if your son doesn’t break out you’ll save a ton, too!
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Jenny Reply:
January 2nd, 2011 at 5:57 pm
We have allegy problems in our family too and we get a dove sensitvie skin hyoallergenic bar and it works great. We where using the all too. THis saves us alot of money I am sure any hypoallergenic soap will work
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Hey! Great post! I know I am behind just reading this…anyway…I have made the laundry soap….with the Fels-Naptha, borax, washing soda….etc…I think the main reason to add Borax is for the sudsing…It might boost the cleaning power a bit, but you don’t really need suds to get clothes clean (or your body for that matter)though most of us have been conditioned to think so.
. Guess you can’t please everybody!
I also make out soap… and it doesn’t sud well because I don’t often add glycerin (which costs more). It does clean, but guests at my house get regular soap and for that matter, Daddy prefers the suds as well
Kimbery- You should have done this a long time ago…..and boy have you added a tn of posts already!
I don’t even have enough time to add as many comments to your posts as I would like these days….But, our site (er, Jon and Allan’s site is up and ready to go!) Check it out here http://www.ShiftGoNowConference.com .(Get people to give your name as a referal and get a 50% commission! No, that is not a typo!)
Gotta get back to the littles…who seem to need me to be in the room to keep them focused….unless there is a t.v. of course, like at my parent’s. For that matter, some of my older kids have the problem, too!
Love you to pieces!
Kim
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Hey. I made up our first batch today. The clothes came out even cleaner than with my regular deturgent. It even got the “little boy funk” out of the boys clothes, as well as brightened a few things. Not to mention using the dove bath soap we always use on Joey made it smell soooooo yummy! The real test will be the whites (in the washer now), and if it actually does well with Joey’s skin. Next question would be…. can you make your own fabric softener too? (not that dryer sheets are THAT expencive, just currious)
Oh and a question to Kim… you make your own bath soap right? Can you make moisturizing bath soap for kids with sencative skin? I know how to make regular bar soap, even the smelly good stuff. How to make the moisturizing stuff tho has me stumped. ANy clue??
Thanks gurls!! I’ll let you know how it comes out!
–Angela
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Hey ANGELA!
As for the moisturizing soap, you will likely need to experiment a little to figure out what you like.
It is also more expensive to make a more moisturizing soap, but you may think it’s worth it.
You need a balance of hard oils and softer oils….like 50/50. Your harder oils are more solid at room temp. while others like olive are not. To make a more moisturizing soap, I would include at least 25% oilive oil and then try jojoba or coconut oils and even shea butter and palm oil for\ moisturizing…You can look up the qualities of each oil I am sure somewhere on the net…
Hint: Castor oil (like 4-5%) adds lather to your soap, but you don’t want too much!)
If you don’t have enough hard oils, you likely won’t have a hard enough soap (don’t ask me how I know!).
You can use a lye calculator (google one) and find out how much lye you need.
Esp. with you experience at soap making, you should be able to make a great moisturizing batch of soap.
HTH!
Kim
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EEEEK! Sounds complex. Let me rephrase. I know how to get the kits in the craft section and add flavoring/ scents to it. LOL I just might be in over my head on this one. Hmm. I have olive oil, veggie oil, and grape seed oil. Those are all I have. I do not even know where to get lye (other than DollyWood hehe). Me thinks I might have bitten off more than I can chew with this one. Maybe I am better off letting Dove make it for $4 a bottle. I can just see myself making a wonderfully moisturizing bottle of sludge, and insisting my hubby and children bathe in it. I will be sure to let you know when I get the ingredients and try my hand at this experiment. Pray that I do not break the whole household out in a rash from head to toe. Yikes! Thanks Kim E! Say a prayer and wish me luck!!
–Angela
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Oh! On another note though! My laundry soap experiment was a complete success. My clothes are even brighter than with ALL. They smell realllly good. It even got the little boy foot funk out. (and that can be a toughie in this house… their socks walk themselves to the laundry!) Even my whites came pretty clean.. tho they are slightly discolored on the bottoms still (always) from them wearing their socks in the yard. So the moisturizing body wash does work. I used 1/2 a bottle of the Almond scented Dove (cherry almond I think), 1 cup of baking soda, and 1 tbsp of white vinager. I mixed it with the blender, adding water slowly and just poured it in my empty large ALL bottle, filled it with water and shook it up. I use the same measuring cup that came with it, and use a full cap every load (cause I am always doing large loads… I imagine if I did a small load I would cut that down.) So if any of you have kids with sencative skin that can only use a certain body wash… you can use that body wash to make the laundry soap, and it works fine.
—Angela
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I make my own detergent also – and I got the recipe from a dear friend who got it off a tv show on the Discovery channel. It is great. But I must say, I use Fels-Naptha and it is great but my little boy did eat some and he enjoyed it so I have to keep it put away while making detergent – Be careful
**I use Fels-Naptha, borax, washing soda and water – it is great – I forgot to wash our swimwear after a ‘late-in-the-year’ swim party and the clothes sat in our beach bag for 6 months. I washed them through twice and the mold, smell and nastiness was gone!! Regular detergent never could have done that!!(no softner either)
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Umm… what is Fels-Naptha, and where do you get it?? I have never heard of such a critter. Is it expencive?
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Raising Olives Reply:
May 18th, 2009 at 6:00 am
Sandy,
I may have to experiment with some of your ingredients. I don’t think that my soap would have done as good a job on wet swimsuits! Thanks for joining in the conversation.
Angela,
Fels-Naptha is a pure, heavy-duty soap. I have heard rumors that you can find it in grocery stores but I haven’t seen it at Food City where we shop. So ladies, which grocery stores carry Fels-Naptha? I do know that you can order it online.
Blessings,
Kimberly
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Ahh! Okies, kewl. I am going to look for it at Kroger and Walmart next time I go then. I will let you know if I find it. Okies? Blessings gurl!
–Angela
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Hi! New here but I have made the deterent above using Fels Naptha. I have been using Fels Naptha for 10 years as a stain treatment for clothes. I have yet to find anything it will not get out and a bar lasts about a year. It is avail in lot os grocery stores and is found in the laundry aisle usually on the very top row or very bottom. You can go to http://www.dialcorp.com/storelocator/storeloc2.cfm and find a store near you. I have bought it at Raley’s in N. Cali nad Publix on the East Coast and Florida. LOVE it!!
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I’ve been making my own laundry soap for about a year, too! I use the washing soda/borax version. I figured up that we spend $48 per year on laundry soap. I love saying that!
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I’ve made the Fels Naptha/washing soda/borax version before, too, but wasn’t happy with it because we had hard water at the time, and I had to use SO MUCH! Now we have a water softener, and an HE washer, and reaching the end of the $15 bottle of HE detergent has me thinking of our own soap again. I have nearly a whole bar of Fels Naptha (I’ve found it at Publix and Winn-Dixie here in Florida, or you can order a case of it online) and I always have a big bag of baking soda on hand, so I could do this today. I can get washing soda and Borax, but they are just not at my usual stores.
There’s a great blog at http://www.passionatehomemaking.com/ with lots of do-it-yourself recipes for everything. Recently I stumbled across her recipe for laundry soap – and at the end of that post is a link for making your own, all-natural, DISHWASHER detergent!
She also has an article on why she’s chosen to avoid borax. I can get Dr. Bronner’s castile soap through my co-op.
http://www.passionatehomemaking.com/2009/05/homemade-laundry-detergent-charlies-soap-nuts.html
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Linda Reply:
November 11th, 2010 at 6:44 pm
Thank you for the comment about the hard water and having to use more. I definitely have hard water and thought it was just me using too much. Now I know I’m not the only one. If I ever have soft water I will have to retrain myself into using a bit less. =0)
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I am not sure if any of you have checked out the Duggar Family Website but they have a recipe requiring bar soap, borax and washing soda that should cost our family of 11 approximately $5 or less for the entire year!!! I just bought the ingredients to make it, haven’t tried it so if any of you have it would be great to know your results! Thanks for the post!
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Very cool! We tried this today and it works pretty well! We mentioned the recipe on our podcast, the Catholic Family Podcast on SQPN http://sqpn.com/ . Thanks for the cool tip! You have a great website.
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I’ve been wanting to try this and finally ran out of our huge container of powdered laundry soap. I used Fels-Naptha and washing powder. (Both I found at our local Schnucks!!) It works great and my husband likes it better. I figured is cost me about $3 for a little over 2 gallons. We’ll just see how long this lasts.
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I have a question for Angela. I am very interested in the body wash detergent recipe that you have. Would you be willing to give me the full recipe? I would need measurements especially on the body wash part. I am thinking of using baby wash as my kids have sensitive skin as well. Thanks so much for your ideas and tips. I am inspired to try this and see how it will work with my kids. Thanks.
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Ok I made my soap and it is all lumpy. Is that because I didn’t melt the soap long enough? Please help. Thanks.
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Raising Olives Reply:
August 19th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
Natalie,
My soap tends to be a little lumpy also. I just stir (or shake if it’s in a lidded container) before each use. I don’t think that it is an issue of not melting the soap long enough.
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We have been making our soap for a while now too…I think I will try your recipe, because mine is the recipe with washing soda, so I would like to do something easier…and if it works better, hey, extra bonus…
Just a couple of comments:
1) Fels Naptha may be good for stain fighting, but IT STINKS…I could not stand the smell of it…it smells overly perfumed…another tip for those making this for a while…white bars are better…colored bars of soap eventually end up leaving a dingy look to clothes
2) While it is kind of pricey, I do add Oxy-clean to certain loads…diapers, whites, heavily soiled items, etc
3) I mix equal parts vinegar and water and add this to my rinse cycle with a few drops essential oil…smells good and I forget actually why this is good for the laundry, so sorry, no help there…I am thinking maybe softener, but I cannot say that with confidence. I do know that white vinegar does set dyes, so if you are worried about new clothes bleeding, some white vinegar in the wash helps that…
4) and for any cloth diaper users…I have been told that when you wash them, wash them first in cold…so stains don’t set I guess, then in hot for sanitary purposes…I know this sounds like a pain and when your sanitary load is 2 hours long, it can be a pain if you have no more diapers left, but it has helped with staining!
5) I have a laundry prep day on the first of the month whether I need laundry soap or not and if I do not need more, that is when I grate my bars of soap…it makes soap making day run so much more smoothly and then I have a better attitude…sorry, the grating of the soap is not my favorite part!
6) One of my nerdy friends figured out that the recipe calling for borax and waashing soda made in a 5 gallon pail costs about 1 cent per load…using 1 cup of soap per load…I have one of those HE machines, so I use 1/2 a cup per load…and it costs me 1/2 cent per load…the dry version I made did not last anywhere near as long as the liquid.
so just my rambly two cents…
C~
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I was making my soap today. My son has sencative skin, so I just simply use his body wash, bakingsoda, then fill with water, shake and you are done. It works great! Way better than ALL at getting out the stains, and it smells good. Not to mention it is a fraction of the cost.
Well… today I am at DRS (a discounted retail store..) getting some baking soda ($1.25 for a 4lb box) they have Oxyclean on sale. I have used it before, so thought I would grab a tub. Not thinking… I descide to just save a step and go ahead and mix the oxyclean in with my other ingredients. Let me tell you … if you are making a volcano.. AWESOME idea.. if not… well.. you will be anyhow.. LOL I think that thing continued a slow spew for a good few hours. I did a huge load in the bath tub, just to not waste alllll the spillage. Then left it on a towel, with the lid off, so that it could continue it’s slow and steady volcanic flow. Sigh.
So… moral here… if you are going to use oxyclean with the bakingsoda and bathsoap, kewl. Just do not mix it all together in one bottle. It explodes… trust me on this one. Ohh but on the up side… the clothes (from the bathtub cycle) where MEGA clean, and it even got out some stains that I had been fighting for some time.
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Sara,
Sorry it took me so long to get to you. I use 1/2-3/4 of a bottle of whichever moisturizing bath soap is on sale, as long as it has shea butter in it. Today it was a raspberry and shea butter offbrand. I use 1 1/2-2 cups of baking soda, fill with water and shake. I generally use clean (one gallon) milk jugs, and just write LAUNDRY SOAP on it with a black marker. (Just in case.) If you have real hard stains, oxyclean makes a “free” that is free of scents and dyes, and has never bothered Joey’s skin. Just do not make my mistake and try to “pre-add” it to your mix. Wait til the washer. (giggles) We live and we learn I guess. Hope that helps! Blessings!
–A
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I have been wanting to try this for a long time. I haven’t found fels-naptha or washing soda anywhere I shop. I have used borax and oxi-clean for years. Oxi-clean can’t be mixed with a few things. (lol) We’ve also experienced with it! I bought baking soda and borax yesterday on our weekly shopping and I’m very excited to try this. I have a cpl. questions and now I’m undecided about the soap I have right now.
Do you have a certain soap pot ?
Has anyone tried in Aveeno soap?
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Raising Olives Reply:
September 19th, 2009 at 7:42 am
Amanda,
I don’t have a certain soap pot, I just use my midsized saucepan.
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Well I make my own soap also. I use fels Naptha, borax and washing soda. Our Fred Meyer carries all three. I use mine in a front loading HE machine and it works great. I also have a daughter wich eczema and it doesn’t bother her at all.
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I use the recipe with washing soda and borax. What is the difference with using the washing soda and regular baking soda. I’ve been making soap for about 8 months now and find it to be every bit as good as store bought and in some cases better. I also use it as a laundry pretreater.
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I am sooo super excited to try this!!! WooHoo! Praise the LORD I found your site!
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I came upon your website from another site and LOVE it. We’re also a Christian, homeschooling family with 5 kids. I love all your tips, and look foward to reading more. I made the detergent, a double batch actually. The soap is very watery, with a bunch of gloppy soap on top that kinda makes a surface (it’s easily broken with a spoon). Is this normal? I assumed it might thicken up after a while, but it’s not.
Thank you,
Donna
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Raising Olives Reply:
October 1st, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Hi Donna – My first batch turned out like you described, I just stirred it before each use and it worked fine, but ever since that I’ve ended up with a nice gel. I think it may be that I didn’t melt the soap enough.
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Thank you ladies for all the great ideas. I am a homeschooling mom of 5 as well. I never even considered making my own soap due to mine and my children’s sensitive skin. That, and I didn’t imagine it only took 4 readily available ingredients. I will have to try this!
Thanks!
Suzanne
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Kimberly~
We absolutely LOVE this laundry soap recipe! My whites have never been so clean and it is pennies on the dollar. One question though, how much do you use when washing cloth diapers? I know I’m only supposed to use a small amount of commercial detergent when washing diapers, how about the homemade stuff? We live on a farm (read lots of dirt) and have VERY hard water so using a full cup of the homemade detergent seems to work for us on regular loads.
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Raising Olives Reply:
October 2nd, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Michelle – I’m glad that this is working well for you. We’ve also been quite pleased! I don’t use the homemade soap on our cloth diapers. I purchase Tide and just use it on our diapers. I think that using soap can cause problems with your diapers, but it also may just depend on the type of cloth diapers that you use. You may want to ask the question in my forum so that more readers will see it. I know that we have a lot of cloth diaper-ers out there.
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I am so excited about trying this! My only concern (as foolish as it sounds) is that my clothes won’t smell as “fresh” as they would with Tide. Does the smell from the bar of soap make them smell good? I do plan to try it though. Do any of you use vinegar for fabric softener? Some people have mentioned that you can use essential oils for fragrance. Any thoughts on that?
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Raising Olives Reply:
October 3rd, 2009 at 9:48 am
Brandie – Your concern is valid. Our clothes don’t have that delicious Tide scent that they do when we washed them in tide. They don’t smell bad, just don’t have any scent. It’s kinda sad.
I don’t use vinegar or essential oils, so am not sure about those.
Christina – Thanks for your input about cloth diapers. As I mentioned we just wash our in Tide, so see Brandie, you don’t have to completely give up that nice Tide smell.
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Brandie Reply:
October 29th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
I made my soap today!
I used the same recipe you posted here with oil of olay soap. I still used my downey and dryer sheet and they came out smelling fresh. I have hard well water so even with tide you don’t smell it as much as you would with city water. I still have half of a 150oz bottle of tide left but am planning to completely switch to the homemade stuff once it is gone. Thank you for all of you tips! 
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Raising Olives Reply:
October 30th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
I hope that you like it!
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We’ve been making our own laundry soap and dishwashing det. for almost a year and LOVE it.
We started out with liquid and then switched over to powdered. The liqiid was making our cloth diapers stink really bad:( We use Fels Naptha or Castel bar soap. I have not seen any or experenced any problems with our cloth diapers and our laundry soap.
We use Baking Soda, Borax, washing soda and 1 bar of grated soap. As a rinse agent, we use White Vineager.
If it helps anyone out, when we wash the cloth diapers, we pre-rinse with a small amout of Baking Soda or Borax(which ever is closest at the time)and vineager then a HOT wash followed by a cold rinse. We then rinse until ALL the soap residue is removed.Usually after 2 rinses unless Dawn Dish Soap is used to strip the diapers.We mainly use the “pocket style” diapers and a few prefolds.
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I do not like the Fels, so we use other soaps…I think Fels has a stinky perfumey smell…It has been recommended to use white soaps though, otherwise, over time your clothes can be dingy…I do not know if this is true or not…just what I have heard…
We use White vinegar in our rinse…a 50% vinegar/50% water…blend and fill the rinse cup with that…then I add about 20 drops or so of essential oils into the vinegar…I use a mix of lavendar and orange oils…I like that alot…leaves a little scent on our clothes, which is nice…another alternative is to use dryer sheets…I found a natural one I like…Meyers Clean Day…Geranium scent..and I cut these to about 1/6 the size…and that works fine too…I know I heard, but cannot remember…dryer sheets can be cut REALLY SMALL AND STILL DO THEIR JOB…I started cutting them YEARS ago because my husband liked the smell and softness, etc, but was allergic to something in them…if they are small, he does not react…now I am not using them at all…
as for diapers, I have started washing them in a cold cycle first ( I guess that helps get staining out) and then a very hot cycle….i use OxyClean when I have it, but I am out now and cannot afford it, so I think I will add some extra borax and add vinegar to my soap cycle….
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Why not making your own soap, then you can get no fragrance og whatever fragrance you want. It’s better for your skin too. Making soap is easy, if you can make custard, you can make soap.
Love to hear from you all. Mother of six and long-time soaper
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Raising Olives Reply:
October 5th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Carrie – Thanks for your input, I’m still fairly new at this whole thing and haven’t experimented much. My husband would like for me to add a scent because he really misses that nice Tide smell.
Charlotte – Would you mind sharing some links for good instructions to get started with soap making? My husband loves homemade soap and I love the idea of knowing what is going into it. I’m currently reviewing some homemade soaps and they are delightful, but I know the children would enjoy learning how to do it themselves.
Thanks!
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I’ve made one batch of your laundry detergent, and it’s working fine. We’ve ordered a new washer/dryer and they are the HE type. Can I still use the homemade detergent!?! Please tell me I can!
Donna
http://www.handsful.com
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Raising Olives Reply:
October 14th, 2009 at 6:50 am
Donna – I don’t have an HE so am not positive, but I’ve read that homemade soap can still be used in that type of washer.
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I have used this (and similar recipes)in my HE machine. These homemade versions do not create a lot of suds,therefore making them perfect for HE machines.
Kim
still waiting on number 9!
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My favourite soaping links are those three in English
Happy soaping
Charlotte
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