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[/caption]Hey People....I finally did it I made my own laundry detergent and it wasn't nearly as much work as I thought it would be... I am going to do laundry this week and I will update you on how well it worked.. without Further a do here is the recipe
1 Bar of Laundry Soap (fels-naptha, octagon, or zeto)
9 cups of water
1 cup Arm and Hammer washing soda (not baking soda it does make a difference)
1 cup Borax
Optional (essential oils:mint, lavender, jazmine, etc.)
Stock Pot (one you don't cook in)
Cheese Shredder (one you don't use with food)
First things first start your stock pot with 9cups of water until it gets to a slow boil, while this is going on shred your laundry soap. Once the water has come to a boil stir in your shredded bar of soap. This actually takes about 15 mins to melt on medium heat, while the soap is melting measure out your dry ingredients 1 cup of super washing soda, 1 cup of borax set these aside until ready to use. Next when the soap is melted ad the borax and washing soda these melt very quickly so have your four cups of hot water ready to put in the bottom of your container. Finally once the hot water is in the bottom of your container and your soap mixture is completely melted pour your soap mixiture into your container stir a little to make sure everything mixes together, then let sit mine turned into a a semi solid yellow gellatin ( it depends on your soap I uses fels-naptha). Let sit for about an hour to cool down and set up (if it seperates at the bottom a little this is okay). Once that is done it is ready to use.
Below is the video that kinda gave me the right direction for making my liquid laudry soap. My recipe is slightly different from the woman in the video but this is not exact science, lol. I hope this works well for you all. Tell me how it works. The second video shows the consistancy of the detergent after it has set over night.
