Lately I’ve been making our own laundry soap. Crazy, right? John’s been a good sport about indulging me in this venture and so I think we’ll keep it up for the near future.
The recipe:
1 cup washing soda
1 cup Borax
1 grated bar of ivory soap or fels naphtha.
Mix. Enjoy. I run it through the food processor to get the soap the same powdery consistency as the rest.
The result?
I can’t tell a difference between it and our old soap. We were using scent free gentle stuff before so it wasn’t a huge jump as it might be going from the regular stuff. It gets stuff clean and gets smells out which is good enough in my book. Other people might rhapsodize about how much softer it makes their clothes, but I don’t notice any difference like that. It works and is cheap, so it’s good enough for me!
