Home Made Laundry Detergent

Guess what everyone!?

I made my own homemade laundry detergent! 

My friend Melissa had made it and sent me the link to the blog to find the recipe myself.

So anyways! 

I went to wal-mart to get my ingredients bc I know a lot of people that read my blog don't have access to a commissary! 

OK so the ingredients you will need are:

4lb 12 oz box of Borax--3.38

4lb box of Washing Soda--3.24

4lb box of Baking Soda--2.12

3lb tub of Oxiclean--7.52

3 Fels-Naptha Bars--.97 each

One bottle of Purex Crystals--8.99

So before tax I spent 28.16

I also had to buy the container (4.97), cheese grater (2.97), and a coffee scoop (1.67) to portion out the laundry.

I didn't use the grater (microwaved instead) or the scoop bc the Oxiclean comes with one inside of it!

The Purex crystals are not a soap or softener they are called fresheners so they are just for smell and I like good smelling clothes so I bought a HUGE bottle from Sams club for $9.00 and used the whole thing.

There are two ways to do the soap. 

1. You can use a cheese grater and grate the bars of soap. From the original blog she said this is tiring and time consuming! 

2. You can microwave the soap for 3 minutes let cool for half and hour then crumble into powder.

I went with option two.

The original recipe called for only microwaving it for 1 minute but mine took 3 minutes. I just put it on a regular dinner plate.

This is what it looked like after the 3 minutes and it was extremely hot to the touch!

All three are done.

I let them sit about 20 minutes and then started crumbling them. I would suggest waiting 30 though BC some pieces were hot and I burnt myself lol.

I just pulled off chunks and squeezed them tight in my hands then rubbed my palms together to make it finer.

I did this with all three bars.

There are still quite a few chunks but I'm OK with it lol.

Next was the Borax

then Washing Soda 

Then Baking Soda and Oxi Clean

Finally my favorite part the crystals!

Sweet side shot ;)

THE FINISHED PRODUCT

 Looks and smells awesome! 

Use 1-2 tablespoons per load

I will admit though while you are making it the powders and soap smell EXTREMELY strong. If you are pregnant or have a lot of small children near by I would maybe consider doing it outside or in the kitchen with a fan on away from the kids!

From what I have heard this is supposed to last a family of 4 more than a year!

I have a little bit of the liquid stuff left so as soon as I use this I will update you on how I think it worked!

here is a cute little picture of my princess to close this post!

In her new pack-n-play may I add!

Thanks for reading!!

http://familycorner.blogspot.com/2012/03/homemade-laundry-detergent.html

^^this is the blog my friend found the original recipe on.