What a boring day, I have not gotten out of my lounging pants all day (That is what the high class people call pajamas).
I took the opportunity of not being able to do anything because it rained again all day to take a stab at making my own laundry soap. Mandy over at
thefarmerscompound has put up some real good posts on how to make all your household cleaning supplies yourself and even priced it out so I thought why not.
The one thing I found is that even though a lot of people know how to do this, nobody puts up any pictures of the finished product. I don't have a clue if I did it right or not.
I have also found that for every person out there that makes their own laundry soap there are that many if not more recipes for it.
Let me tell you what I did and like I said, I do not have a clue.
I took one cut up 14.1 oz laundry soap bar made from Mexico and put it in my food processor (I will never do that again). When it was shredded up pretty fine I dumped it in a bucket and added 1 1/2 cups of Washing soda and 1 1/2 cups of Borax.
The recipe I followed told me to keep it in powder form and only use 3 table spoons per load.
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| One batch mixed up |
I don't know if this is right or not but I'm going with it. I have an HE washer and this I guess is a concentrate.
I talked with Mandy and she said it might leave white stuff all over my clothes and the only way to find out is just do it.
I put a bunch of black shirts in to make sure I could see any left over soap and I added plain Vinegar for the fabric softener.
I just pulled them out of the washer and they are clean and actually smell good. I did cheat a little on this load by hitting extra rinse button, but on the next one I won't.
During our emailing back and forth I asked her if she thought it was weird that she was talking a big dumb redneck through doing laundry. She simply said, "I have talked them through worse"
Well, The wife is hollering supper is ready and I am not going to miss out on Chicken and Dumplings.
