simple cleaning tips: homemade laundry soap

ingredients:

1 cup grated soap

(fel naptha, ivory, old fashioned lye, any soap you want to use)

1 cup borax

1 cup purex

1 cup washing soda

• in a stainless steel pot add 8 cups warm water on medium heat
• add the 1 cup of grated soap
• stirring until dissolved (about 15 minutes)

(will bubble a bit)

• remove from heat
• add to soap mixture - 1 cup borax, 1 cup purex, 1 cup washing soda
• stir until dry detergent is dissolved
• add 3 gallons of warm water to the bucket
• add soap mixture
• stir well

• cover with a lid
• let sit for 24 hours
• will have a gelatin like consistency on the top after 24 hours
• stir really well
• pour into containers (recycled milk jugs, old laundry soap containers)
• shake well before each use
• 1/2 cup - 1 cup per load

(this laundry soap saves me a ton & it's not full of all those crazy chemicals)