Adding Scents to Soap
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Hat tip to "victoria" @ American Preppers Network:
anyone make homemade laundry soap?
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This is what I use.
- 1 bar Fels Naptha (it's like a bar of soap for laundry, but has many other uses)
1 c. Borax (20 mule team)
1 c. washing soda (make sure it is washing soda and not baking soda)
grate the bar of Fels Naptha with an old cheese grater
put them in a pot and add 3 pints of water ,cook on low until all soap has melted and add the borax and washing soda and stir until dissolved.
Pour this mixture into a clean 5 gallon bucket and add hot water up to about a little over 3/4 of a bucket ful and let sit over night.
Use 1/4-1/2 c. per load.
A few things:
You can make this a liquid by adding more water.( I don't because it takes too many containers)
This soap does not get sudsy so don't keep adding more to your laundry. On the good side it has hardly no surfactants or petroleum products which is better for your septic and the environment.
Depending on how much laundry I have going on a bucket of this will last me 2-3 months and costs me about three dollars to make. I don't count the whole cost of the washing soda or borax since you don't use the whole box in one batch. Let me know if it works for you.
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If anyone wants fragrance in their soap you can add essential oils while your soap is still hot and mix it in or a few drops to your vinegar if you use that as softener. I personally don't , but I do like to add afew drops of essential oils to the mix when I clean my carpets. I have a great recipe for a homemade carpet cleaner if anyone wants that. And once again it works very very well. Oh and plus I keep a small tub of the homemade laundry soap and a small scrub brush by the sink and we use it instead of Gojo or Lava to scrub the dirt and grease off and it works just as good!