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| Farmer Macleigh |
Posted - Jun 26 2005 : 09:56:42 AM
Hello All!
This is my maiden posting! Does anyone have a proper recipe for homemade laundry soap? I'd like to concoct some of my own at home but add some fragrance to the mixture as well.
Any ideas?
Best to all,
Macleigh
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| RobinB |
Posted - May 07 2007 : 8:00:32 PM
I just wanted to thank everyone for the suggestions for a different soap. I found a 3 pack of the Kirk's castille soap at my grocery store, in the soap section, just as described! Now, to find time to mix up a batch of laundry detergent. |
| Alee |
Posted - May 04 2007 : 10:28:41 AM
Beth-
I have used my own soap before and it works great. I would suggest using a soap that has a low excess fat ratio and I would not recommend using any soap that was superfatted. You don't want the oil from the superfat to coat the fibers of your fabric.
Alee |
| celebrate2727 |
Posted - May 04 2007 : 09:38:04 AM
So I could maybe use my own CP soap that I make for the grated soap part? I would love to continue the scent from my other items.
blessings
beth
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| Alee |
Posted - May 03 2007 : 12:46:57 PM
It's on the previous page but it is
1/3 cup grated soap (castile or other homemade soaps work great)
1/3 cup Washing Soda
1/3 Borax
Dissolve soap in sauce pan (with water) combine with other ingredients and 2 gallons of water. Shake each use to mix and use about 1 cup for a full load. Or you can skip dissolving it and just use a food processor/blender to chop and mix everything ultra fine. Use one tablespoon per load.
Alee |
| celebrate2727 |
Posted - May 03 2007 : 11:10:01 AM
Anyone with a good recipe they want to share- I thought I saw one here but can't find it now.
blessings
beth
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - May 02 2007 : 8:41:54 PM
I have used Zotes (in hispanic section...a laundry soap bar) and my own homemade soap too.
Jenny in Utah
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| therusticcottage |
Posted - May 02 2007 : 8:05:35 PM
I used Fels Naptha one time and it about ate the skin off my hands when I was grating it! Plus the smell is so strong. Kirk's is not bad. I used it to make a batch of all purpose cleaner because I didn't have any of my own castille soap done. The only thing I don't like about Kirk's is that it seems very "sudsy".
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| GaiasRose |
Posted - May 02 2007 : 7:19:04 PM
I use a castille that a close frined makes for me, but another good castille is kirks. you should be able to find it at the market, but not in the washing aisle, probably in the aisle with the hand soaps and such, but not the cleaner aisle....at least that is how it is in most markets I have seen it in.
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| RobinB |
Posted - May 02 2007 : 5:28:02 PM
Anyone have any recommendations for a substitue for Fels Naptha? Thanks! |
| GaiasRose |
Posted - Apr 24 2007 : 6:45:33 PM
can I just let you all know....fels naptha is made with petro chems and not a ncie thing....just fyi :)
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| Alee |
Posted - Apr 24 2007 : 5:27:05 PM
Just bumping this because I love this recipe!
Alee |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jan 30 2006 : 3:21:43 PM
would love to hear back from you girls that make this .. i might just have to try it!
True Friends, Frannie |
| MullersLaneFarm |
Posted - Jan 30 2006 : 1:58:21 PM
I'll use my homemade laundry soap for treating stains and prewash, but for washing clothes I prefer detergent. My laundry prewash bar is 50% lard and 50% palm kernel (can be coconut). 0% superfat. 3% sweet orange oil and 3% rosemary essential oil. I also use borax and washing soda
Cyndi
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| AnnieT |
Posted - Nov 28 2005 : 1:03:11 PM
For those boot-wearing gents, buy them black socks. :) DH is a Marine, so of course boots every day, and he wears black or green socks (regulation colors). Then the only problem is the smell! :)
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| Alee |
Posted - Nov 27 2005 : 6:39:11 PM
My boyfriend's socks don't get discolored so much as dis-smelled! I can always tell when laundry day is approaching because I can smell his socks a mile off. He wears holes in his socks faster than anyone I have ever seen so I wonder if he has some sort of corrosive agent in his feet... lol
The joys of living with the opposite sex...
Alee |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Nov 18 2005 : 10:11:35 AM
Yep..if they wear work boots especially..my husband and grown sons all wear white socks mostly and get that leather brown color from their "wolverines" on them..yuck!!
Jenny in Utah
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| greyghost |
Posted - Nov 18 2005 : 09:47:13 AM
My hubby always has icky socks. They get washed twice. Once with the "icks" and a second time with the "whites." We have to replace them every year... they just get so brown and disgusting even after a night of soaking in bleach... drastic measure but still... |
| Alee |
Posted - Nov 16 2005 : 5:26:05 PM
I grate 3 bars of Fel's soap, toss in a box of Borax, a box of Washing Soda and a small box of the cheapest color safe bleach. I only add the color safe bleach because my boyfriend works at a grocery store and his white shirts come home black and grey (ick) not to mention the socks...
Do all men have suck icky socks?
:)
Ciao
Alee |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Nov 14 2005 : 5:57:36 PM
I will be trying this for sure. I usually always make liquid and have all the ingredients on hand for it..same stuff so it will be easy to try out. Thanks Kay!!!
Jenny in Utah
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| therusticcottage |
Posted - Nov 14 2005 : 5:46:58 PM
Received this recipe today for homemade powdered laundry detergent. Thought I'd share. I'm going to try and make some.
http://frugalliving.about.com/od/laundry/ht/drydetergent.htm
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jun 29 2005 : 9:36:15 PM
Hi CindyLou!!! good to see you here!!
Kay..yes, I use mine in warm or cold water..just make sure it is dissolved really well before you put the clothes in with cold water. Warm isn't a problem. I almost never use hot. (when my grown boys were teenagers I did wash their socks in very hot water..twice..yuck!)
Jenny in Utah
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| sleepless reader |
Posted - Jun 29 2005 : 7:38:31 PM
Cindylou, I agree that nothing smells better than laundry dried on the line! I washed the bed linnens the other day and hung them out to dry. It was a beautiful sunny, slightly breezy day and the flannels dried in about an hour. When we crawled into bed that night...boy, it was what heaven must smell like!
Sharon
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| Cindylou |
Posted - Jun 29 2005 : 6:37:32 PM
I learn so much from all of you! I love NOT having a clothes dryer ~ on an unrelated topic. My three kids are now grown, they all learned to factor in drying time on the wooden rack in the winter or outside on the line in warmer weather. I love the way clothes smell after drying outside. I have fond memories of watching my mother hang clothes on the line after wringing them out in a wringer washer when I was very little. I think the best part is the time you share while teaching your kids how to do things in a simpler way. I have many memories of washing dishes, making bubbles in the dish water with an egg beater, and the best is that my sons don't consider those things someone else's job to do.
Thanks farmgirls at heart! sunnily yours,
Cindylou
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| Mollie |
Posted - Jun 29 2005 : 6:10:00 PM
Just wanted to let you know that almost all the large chain grocery stores here in my city carry Argo Gloss Laundry Starch ($1.39 for 1 lb box) in the soap aisle. I know some of you can't find it. I still like the regular spray starch usually Faultless. But if you want to use Argo "old-fashioned" kind, remember you can "mix in the proportions recommended in the instructions. Instead of dipping your clothes in the mixture, let cool and drain into empty milk jugs or soda bottles. Store these with your other laundry supplies. When it's time to iron, shake the starch mixture thoroughly and pour into a plastic spray bottle. (For best results, you may wish to heat the mixture again in the microwave.) Spray onto you clothes and iron. I have found you can get 10 to 15 bottles for the price of one can of commercial spray starch (depending on how heavily starched you want your clothes). It provides yet another way to recycle plastic jugs and bottles and reduces the flourocarbons and pollution from canned spray starch." You can also use the Argo laundry starch powder to make jewelry or Christmas ornaments with kids. Mollie http://www.startrecycling.com/Paperjewelry.htm
or http://www.epa.state.oh.us/pic/kids/jewel.html |
| therusticcottage |
Posted - Jun 29 2005 : 11:26:57 AM
Jenny -- can you use the homemade laundry soap in warm or cold water? I use cold water for my darks and wondered if this would work ok.
Kay
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