Welp. I already posted this on facebook, but lets face it -- it looks cooler on here. I am getting ready to use my first batch of this cheap goodness!
Ingredients
4 cups hot water
1 fels-naptha soap bar
1 cup washing soda
1/2 cup borax
1. Grate soap bar into saucepan with water. Stir continually over medium low heat until dissolved and melted.
2. Fill a five gallon bucket with hot tap water. Add melted soap, washing soda and borax. Stir well until all ingredients are dissolved. Add more water until the bucket is 2/3 full. Stir, cover and let sit overnight to thicken.
3. Stir. Fill a used, clean laundry soad container half full with the soap mixture, and half full with water. Shake before each use. This solution will gel.
4. Optional -- you may add 10-15 drops of essential oils per two gallons. Add after soap has cooled.
*top load machine 5/8 cup per load (180 loads per batch)
* front load machine 1/4 cup per load (600 loads per batch)
so where do you find the fels-naptha bar soap, the washing soda, and the borax? i mean, are they things you can just pick up at walmart? awesome idea!
ReplyDeleteyou're right, the picture looks really cool on here. :)
Well, I got the borax at wal-mart -- but I think you can get everything at Hy-Vee. Got Hy-Vees in Canada?? Also, I used Baking soda as a substitute for the washing soda (but I Bry got washing soda at hy-vee as well. I couldn't find the fels-naptha soap at wal-mart...but I did at Hy-Vee. Wow. There are a lot of Hy-Vees in this paragraph.
ReplyDeleteI'll check around and see what I can come up with. No hy-vees here, but we do have a "real canadian superstore"... I guess we'll see how super it really is!!!
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