Stitch and Boots

By cnash

Ingredients

• 2 cups washing soda
• 2 cups borax
• 2 cups bar soap, grated
• 2 gallons distilled water

Details

Servings 1
Adapted from stitchandboots.com

Preparation

Step 1

How to Make Laundry Detergent | Stitch and Boots

How to Make Laundry Detergent

Laundry detergent is very easy to make and costs a lot less to make than buying the eco-friendly and natural detergents that I use.  If you are used to buying really cheap detergents with lots of perfumes and unnecessary chemicals then you may not see much of a cost savings.  My friend Sharon and I made a batch of this detergent and have some notes to share about it:

The bar soap you use may make quite a difference in the finished detergent.  Most recipes call for either Fels-Naptha or Zote – both are really heavily perfumed and have ingredients I don’t want in my laundry but I know

You do not have to use distilled water but it’s better to use water with no added chlorine or other chemicals in it.

Bring the water to a boil in a large pot.

Once water is boiling, add the grated soap and boil until all soap is dissolved then turn off the heat.

Add the washing soda and borax and stir until dissolved.

If the detergent is hard - stir it by hand until it's broken up enough to allow an immersion blender to do the rest of the work. Blend it until it is in a pour-able state, then put in storage containers.

http://stitchandboots.com/2013/03/16/how-to-make-laundry-detergent/

We learned an important lesson: turn the heat off before adding the washing soda and borax UNLESS you use a huge canning pot like my friend Kathy does -because it boils up really fast.

This is how we found it the next day.  it was very stiff like a jello with too much gelatin added.

So then Sharon had a brilliant idea: use an immersion blender!  It worked.  It still has a clumpy look to it but is now pourable/scoopable.

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