I decided last year that I was going to start making my own laundry soap. Cash, our son, who is gluten intolerant, has skin issues. After thanksgiving (I'm pretty sure he snitched a glutenous pumpkin pie even though Grandma bought a gf one,) his poor feet and ankles had more sores than good skin. So I figured I should be aware of what was going on his skin. Soap and detergents, lotions, etc. So I started making my own soap. This will be good for when the foster kids come because anything harmful if swallowed has to be under lock and key. I guess you can eat this soap and won't be so bad. Anyways, that was I read online.
So the three ingredients I use are borax, washing soda and fels naptha soap. I chipped up the fels naptha in my vitamix. I use wide mouth mason jars to keep the soap in. Harder for the kids to spill with the screw on lid.
Then I added 2 borax to 1 washing soda to about 2/3 of the jar then I put half of the chipped up soap on top. Put the lid on and shook it up. I made up 2 jars full of laundry soap.
2 jars lasted 3 months or so. So for 1 box of borax, 1 box of washing soda and 2 bars of fels naptha I get 6 months of laundry soap. I do have 4 kids and we do alot of laundry with sports and 3 boys. So, it ends up being a great deal. I think I spent between $10-12 for all the ingredients. It smells really good and I notice less grease spots on the boys shirts.
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