Making Homemade Laundry Soap

Fels Naptha.  An old-fashioned type of soap, found in the laundry aisle.  Another option is Ivory Soap. If you use Ivory use more.

Washing Soda: NOT to be confused with baking soda.  It’s a white powder and helps remove dirt and odors.  

Borax: It’s purpose is as a laundry whitener and deodorizer. Look for 20 Mule Team.

Purex: Dry Bleach .. not everyone adds the bleach .. I like it

THE RECIPE

Homemade Laundry Soap

1/3 bar Fels Naptha or Ivory Soap

½ cup washing soda

½ cup borax powder 

½ cup of Purex Powdered Bleach

DIRECTIONS:

Grate soap as you would cheese. Mix the ingredients and you have powdered soap.  

ENJOY  This is a low sudsing, but Suds don’t clean.  The ingredients clean.

SAVINGS??? 

The cost of this recipe is about $1. for about 64 loads of laundry.  About 1.5¢ / load.

PS..  Put 2 of each ingredient in long term storage. Long shelf life on soap. 

CAUTION: NO fillers … 2 TBL is sufficient for a large load of wash.