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Contrary1 (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-29-10 02:43 AMOriginal message Laundry Detergent I went to the grocery yesterday and found a name brand detergent on sale for $17.96 ??? I don't care how "new", "condensed", or "money saving" it claims to be. Almost $18 bucks for soap?With regards to last1standing, I post the following recipe. We have very hard well water here. Using this homemade detergent, our laundry ends up clean and fresh. I have been using this recipe for over 2 years now. I have saved a lot of money. Friends and family are using it also.Give it a try. I think you will be pleasantly surprised. My hat's off to you, last1standing...brilliant! http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph... 3 Pints Water1/3 Bar Fels Naptha Soap, Grated1/2 Cup Washing Soda1/2 Cup Borax2 Gallon Bucket1 Quart Hot WaterCold WaterDissolve Fels Naptha in 3 pints of water over low heat. Add washing soda & Borax. Stir until thickened, and remove from heat. Add 1 Quart Hot Water to 2 Gallon Bucket. Add soap mixture, and mix well. Fill bucket with cold water, and mix well. Set aside for 24 hours, or until mixture thickens. Use 1/2 cup of mixture per load.
Raine (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-29-10 02:55 AMResponse to Original message 1. I usually get mine at Big Lots or the drugstore for at least a fourth of that price. I'm sure the recipe will be handy for many ...
Vickers (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-29-10 03:09 AMResponse to Original message 2. Where do you get washing soda? I looked it up and realize what it is, but is there a nationwide/well-known chain that carries it?
willing dwarf (999 posts) Thu Jul-29-10 03:29 AMResponse to Reply #2 4. Arm and Hammer makes washing soda It's in a big yellow box, usually they put it in our grocery store near the Borax (Hundred Mule Team). You can also get it at the hardware store. Washing soda is great for boosting the expensive laundry soap too. It softens the water.-- Put a tablespoon in your laundry and you can reduce your detergent by 1/3. (Plus I've been reading that we all use too much detergent anyway.
napi21 (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-29-10 04:03 AMResponse to Reply #4 5. It's available in the detergent aisle of most supermarkets. It should be on the top shelf near the Fels Naptha soap bars.
willing dwarf (999 posts) Thu Jul-29-10 03:26 AMResponse to Original message 3. I've used a similar recipe but dry I like the idea of liquifying it first and I'll give it a try. One thing about it is that if you have sensitive skin, this can make your clothes a little rough. I can't use it on my own clothes, but I use it on my husband (who has the rough tough skin of a carpenter....) I recommend this recipe though. It really does help you save money. The cost of those detergents is crazy!
noamnety (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-29-10 04:36 AMResponse to Reply #3 6. I'm impressed he holds still for that. I've tried scrubbing mine down with dry soap powder when I thought he needed it, but he just gets pissed off and escapes.
madokie (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-29-10 04:47 AMResponse to Original message 7. We bought a front load washer a couple years ago and in water savings and soap savings it'll pay for itself in a few more years. uses hardly any soap and the clothes come super clean. I've got this old dark colored tee shirt that I wear when I'm doing dirty work and when we first bought this front loader it was all stained up but now other than being ratty I could wear it to Sunday go meeting, its that clean now.A few bucks up front to save a bunch of money every day. Thats how it works folks.
Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-29-10 04:52 AMResponse to Reply #7 9. Some of my laundry I do with no soap. Not all of it, mind you. But most of my office work clothes just need the dust and dead skin rinsed out.
tsuki (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-29-10 05:44 AMResponse to Original message 11. I use a variation on the recipe you have posted, but it works great. I am chemically sensitive, and last spring I had a rash that would not go away. I knew it was tied to something I was using, and finally tried eliminating the expensive hypo-allergenic detergent I was using (and had been using for years). Rash cleared up in about a half month. Been using it ever since. Great stuff.
elocs (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-29-10 06:18 AMResponse to Original message 13. I buy laundry detergent for under $3 and it works fine for me. Sorry, there's no way I will spend time making my own laundry detergent anymore than I would make my own clothes.
I don't know where this person shops but every store has inexpensive brands, store brands, whatever. You don't have to use a name brand. This is one area I won't compromise on, though...has to be Tide.Cindie
Mine has to be Cheer, Clorox II and Downey liquid. I gripe every time I buy the stuff too, because it's become ridiculous how much the prices have gone up the last couple of years.
"The nation that couldn’t be conquered by foreign enemies has been conquered by its elected officials" odawg Free Republic in reference to the GOP Elites who are no difference than the Democrats
The DU OP's Laundry Detergent recipe is the same recipe I posted over here from the Duggars, who BTW are Republicans, have 19 kids and don't believe in abortion, and have absolutely no debt, website.
Not trying to be a snot here, but isn't that recipe the same one the Duggars use?????
Downy, definitely! Simple Pleasures Orchid Allure.Cindie
