I've seen recipes on blogs and all over the interwebz in the last few years for homemade laundry soap. Mostly they all seemed to involve cooking the ingredients, and mostly they all seemed really messy and time-consuming.
But I HATE paying the cost of laundry detergent, even at Costco! And we hate the chemicals, perfumes, plastic bottles, and the fact that they all seem to be 75% water! Costco has carried an "environmentally friendly" version for a couple of years, which I liked okay, but there was still the cost issue and the plastic bottle issue.
A couple of months ago my cousin Tasha pinned a promising-sounding homemade laundry soap on her Pinterest board, and I checked it out. Hmmmm... no liquids, no cooking, easily-obtainable ingredients, makes a LOT and will last a LONG time. We mixed up a batch and it was LOVE! The cost, the ingredients, the easy mixing (we grated the Fels-Naptha using the shredder attachment on the Kitchen Aid mixer), and the mild smell ALL work for us.
I bought the container pictured above at T*rget for less than $5.00 (I didn't have a big enough one at home that I could repurpose). I put in a metal coffee scoop that holds 2 tablespoons for measuring it out. We mixed up the ingredients in a five gallon H*me Dep*t bucket (lined with a trash bag) that we scored from GolfDad's garage, and that is where the extra is stored. I made the labels on our ink jet printer using clear mailing labels, and covered them with heavy-duty packing tape.
Check out the original post on the blog Being Creative to Keep My Sanity for all the info if you want to try this out - I promise, you won't regret it!
~Mamie "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro!" (Hunter S. Thompson)
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