Homemade Laundry Detergent

     I have seen a lot of homemade laundry detergents on Pinterest and have been wanting to make my own for a couple of months. From what I have heard it will save you money and is better for the environment? So when I ran out of laundry detergent three weeks ago I decided to go for it.

I used:
3 bars of Fels-Naptha
1 large box super washing soda
1 large box baking soda
1 large box borax



I found all my supplies at Walmart on the laundry aisle across from the detergents. My picture shows small boxes of baking soda. The large box is 4 lbs and I forgot to buy it, so I ended up going to Dollar General and getting four small boxes of the baking soda.

The total cost was around $25.00 for the above ingredients. I spent a little more then that to get a grater to use for the soap and a container.

I read that this much detergent will last you a year but with six people in my family I know it will not last me that long. I plan on keeping a record and posting about how long it lasts when I am out. Hopefully I wont have to post about that for a while.

I put a trash bag in my container to help me mix my ingredients but if you have a large enough container like I did, you could probably just mix it without the trash bag.


I grated a bar of Fels-Naptha soap and then layered one of the powdered boxes on then a bar of soap then a box of powdered ingredient and so on. The picture above is the Fels-Naptha grated, it looks like grated cheese. Each time I added a layer I mixed it. Since I put it in the trash bag I was able to mix it all together by moving the bag around when I was done. Then I poured it into my container.




I use 1 tablespoon for small loads
          2 tablespoons for medium loads
          3 tablespoons for large loads



 

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