Laundry soap conversion to HE recipe
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Comments (5)I made one posted by liz ga back in a thread from 2009, here it is(you can easily cut this down to 1/2 this): The Recipe 1/3 bar Fels Naptha 1/2 cup washing soda 1/2 cup borax powder ~You will also need a small bucket, about 2 gallon size~ Grate the soap and put it in a sauce pan. Add 6 cups water and heat it until the soap melts. Add the washing soda and the borax and stir until it is dissolved. Remove from heat. Pour 4 cups hot water into the bucket. Now add your soap mixture and stir. Now add 1 gallon plus 6 cups of water and stir. Let the soap sit for about 24 hours and it will gel. You use 1/2 cup per load....See More10 recipes for laundry detergents
Comments (1)Here's one that doesn't require any cooking. 1 large bar of Zote, or 2 small bars 1 1/2 cups borax 1 1/2 cups washing soda Grate the soap, add the borax and soda and combine. An empty 5 lb pail from Sun OxyWash (an OxyClean clone, sold here at Dollar General stores) is ideal. Use 2 tablespoons in a front loading washer. If you are making soap for a front loading washer, or a top loading HE washer, DO NOT use Kirk's Castile soap. Kirk's is specially formulated to create lots of suds. You want a low sudsing soap in an HE machine, or you will get suds lock. This is not good, and can damage the washer. Fels Naptha, Zote, Sunlite are laundry soaps and all good choices....See MoreTesting soap instead of detergent
Comments (5)Washing Soda has a higher Ph than Borax. I do agree that people who use this home made detergent/soap are not dosing high enough. However, it occurs to me that if I was hand washing, I would only be rubbing the garment with the bar of soap, and in all reality not using much of that bar at all. So technically, in my mind, for a whole load of wash, you really do not need a ton of bar soap. It just makes more suds to rinse. However, I do think that front loaders and top loaders need totally different dosing simply because of dilution. Secondly, the liquid version of this home soap is wayyy more diluted than the powered. There is no way in hell that a half a cup of that liquid would clean the average soiled load of laundry. All that said, years ago I made this home made stuff because I was barely scraping by financially. I had a traditional top load washer, made the liquid version, 1/2 cup a load, and with pretty hard water. Six months later, I had gray whites. Mainly white towels...and I could not reverse it. I ended up throwing them out because that was the first (and last) time in my life that I had ever, ever had dingy laundry, and I was embarrassed. I was also cloth diapering at that time, and had zero issues until the tattle tale gray took over. I never had a sour smell or absorbency issues, but I did not use any additional softener with it. In my honest opinion, I DO think you can get, and maintain, clean laundry with the homemade version, IF you know what you are doing. All of the major laundry areas become more crucial to achieve results. Soil level, water hardness, amount of dilution, and water temperature are all areas that should be considered. Since every household is different, the formula should be tweaked to suit each household's laundry....See MoreHomemade Laundry Soap??
Comments (13)Oh, I'm sorry you took this personal. This is exactly what I didn't want. So I'm sorry Chloe. I wasn't demeaning you, I wasn't criticizing you..I was critiquing the homemade laundry soap, not you. I've watched this over and over again on these forums someone gives an opinion and whamo someone takes it personal. Much of what I've said is fact ( no Elmer I'm not posting a link) some is common sense.. Tap water...not everyone knows bacteria will grow in it, yet its a fact..not an opinion or a maybe it will..it will. The other products well just read the labels...go to all the mommy blogs and read the reviews, all of them... I open my mouth and someone always is ready to let me have it..why is that. Sit back and watch people wash clothes in bacteria...would you sit back and not say a word if you knew that may very well be a breeding ground for bacteria... Chloe, I know mothing about your laundry practices, or your clean clothing, but I do know something anout this homemade laundry soap.. Chloe, I'm very sorry you felt targeted, and demeaned, I truely did not want you to feel this way. I only wanted to educate somewhat will you please accept my apologies....See Moreratstatty
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