There are tons of recipes out there, and you have to find the one that you like, but here is my favorite.
Ingredients
--1/3 Bar Fels Naptha Soap grated
(A food processor attachment is great for this step!)
--1/2 Cup Washing Soda
(This is different than baking soda!)
--1/2 cup Mule Tem Borax
All of the above ingredients can usually be found in the laundry aisle. I find all of them at my local supermarket (Publix) and at Walmart, but I have yet to find the soap at Target.
The process
-- Combine soap & 6c water in saucepan & heat until the soap melts
-- Add washing soda & borax & stir until it is dissolved.
--Remove from heat
-- Pour 4c HOT water into 2 gallon bucket
(In the winter I heat this water in the microwave, but the rest of the year I just use the hot from the tap. I have a solar hot water heater, it's plenty hot most of the year!)
--Add soap mixture & stir
---Add one gallon plus 6c cold water & stir.
I don't take credit for this recipe I found it here:
But I have made a couple of tweaks to it:
-- I use scraps from my own homemade soap now, so I use 1c of grated soap instead of the 1/3 bar
--When I started ordering fragrance oils for my homemade soap, I began adding 1/2 ounce of fragrance to my laundry detergent.
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