Sue's Homemade Laundry Detergent
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
-
15 about 15 5 gallon buckets
ingredients
- arm and hammer laundry detergent (7.94 lbs)
- 20 mule team borax (76 oz)
- soap bar (1 Ivory 4.5 oz bar)
- soap bar (1 Fels Naptha 5 1/2 oz bar)
- 1 soap bar (Ivory, grated)
- 1 soap bar (Fels Naptha, grated)
- 236.59 ml laundry detergent (use Arm and Hammer)
- 236.59 ml borax (use 20-Mule Team)
- 946.36 ml boiling water
directions
- The first 4 ingredients are what you need to buy. The next 5 are to make the actual recipe.
- Dissolve soaps and detergent in 5 gallon bucket with 4 cups of boiling water.( I used the paint stirrer and drill for this the 2nd time I made it, it dissolved the ingredients much better than by hand).
- Once dissolved add another 4 cups of very hot water.
- Stir well and add enough water to fill 5 gallon bucket to the top.
- Let sit overnight. Soap will gel up and you will need to stir completely with your hand or use a paint stirrer on the end of a drill. You can fill empty laundry bottles or keep in bucket with a cover.
- 1 - 5 gallon bucket will make about 80 loads of detergent.
- ( A little extra math- 1 box of Arm and Hammer, 2 boxes of 20-Mule Team, 15 bars of Ivory and 8 bars of Fels will make about 1200 loads of laundry for about $35.96).
- Also I bought an inexpensive grater just for the soap. It was suggested to use a food processor but I didn't like doing that.
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