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queenmushroom
True Blue Farmgirl
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Lorena
Centerville
Me
USA
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 Posted - Jul 13 2014 : 06:13:00 AM
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If you're like me who hasn't started making homemade laundry soap yet and in need of a measuring scoop for adding laundry additives (me borax) to your laundry, take your liquid laundry soap bottle cap and find out how much it hold by using a measuring cup to add water to the cap. I'm currently using arm and hammer soap. The green cap hold a half cup.no need to buy a special measuring scoop for laundry additives.
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natesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1735 Posts
angela
martinsville
indiana
USA
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Posted - Jul 13 2014 : 12:42:26 PM
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I never bothered to get a special cup or pan or anything. I checked into it with alot of places and they all said that it wasn't needed. You're using the items to mix and measure cleaners that aren't any more toxic than the standard dish washing liquids that you will be using to clean them off with. I see it as cleaners will just make it a cleaner utensil! I do keep anything wooden out of the mix and keep things that come into contact with lye seperate as they sometimes will burn tender fingers when washed if it containes too much cleaner. My kids have very sensitive skin.
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natesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1735 Posts
angela
martinsville
indiana
USA
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Posted - Jul 13 2014 : 12:44:41 PM
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On a funny side note, I have used the same wooden dowel rod to stir my laundry soap up before usin for years. The poor thing is now twisted in a slight curly cue! In the direction I always stir! LOL!
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Madinet85
True Blue Farmgirl
94 Posts
Elizabeth
Indiana
USA
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Posted - Jul 17 2014 : 06:49:03 AM
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I use Purex crystals as fabric softener in my homemade laundry soap, and the bottle they come in has a little cap with measuring lines. The middle line is 2 tablespoons, which is how much soap I add to our loads. So I mix up my soap in a 5 gallon bucket, and then scoop some into the now empty Purex bottle and use its cap as an easy way to measure it out. My mom got a few coffee scoops from the thrift store that she uses for hers.
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Edited by - Madinet85 on Jul 17 2014 06:50:23 AM |
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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
1825 Posts
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Jul 21 2014 : 4:51:27 PM
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Elizabeth, I just looked up Purex Crystals because I'd never heard of that product. Sounds nice! If you ever wanted to save money on that, you can apparently get the same effect from plain old epsom salts @ about $1.00 for a huge box and maybe add some essential oil. I'm going to try that, even though I use wool dryer balls for fabric softening. They work pretty well, but I'm all for progress! Thanks for mentioning this :)
Like your mom, I use a little coffee scoop, which I keep right in the big glass "cookie far" that holds my homemade soap. They're cute!
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Edited by - Rosemary on Jul 21 2014 4:53:02 PM |
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