Homemade Laundry Soap

Several months ago, while on Pinterest.  I came across a recipe for making homemade laundry detergent. Weeks went by I still hadn’t bought the ingredients to make it. Late last fall, I finally made the first batch. WOW! I was impressed with how well the laundry came out. It was so soft and smelled great! Even our towels, were no longer smelled like mildew.  The original recipe I found said that I could use ivory soap or Irish spring. For several months, I used ivory. But recently switched to Irish spring (original scent). I make a large batch about every month. I haven’t taken the time to count how many loads. We are a family of four. I do a lot of laundry, sometimes twice a week! Here is the recipe;

Food processor

1 bar of Fels-Naptha   .98 cents (I usually buy 3)

2 bars of Irish spring soap Pack of 8 bars $4.27

3 cups of Borax $3.38

3 cups of Super washing soda $3.24

Total cost $13.83  for about 3 months of laundry soap. J

Step 1-  Use the blade that has a cheese grader on it. Put the Fels-Naptha bar in the food processer (grade it like cheese.)

Step 2- do the same thing with the Irish spring bars of soap.

Empty the graded up soap into a bowl.

Step 3- Change the blade to the mixing blade on the processor . Add some of the graded soap and a 1 cup of each the borax and the washing soda. Keep adding until all the ingredients are mixed together.

My processor will not hold all the ingredients at once. So I have to mix in portions. Then I dump it all together into a large container.

Use 1 tablespoon of laundry soap for each load.