My mom has compiled quite an exhaustive collection of homemade household recipes- here is one I’m anxious to try! I’ve been making my own liquid laundry soap for nearly two years now and love it, but I think I’ll try the powdered variation and see how it works.
Let me know if you decide to make and use this, or if you have already used it. I’d love to hear a review!
Homemade Powdered Laundry Detergent
Ingredients:
2/3 bar Laundry Soap, equivalent of 1 cup grated (Fels Neptha or Zote works good for stains)
½ Cup 20 Mule Team Borax
½ Cup Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda.
Container large enough to hold 2 cups of laundry detergent
Directions:
Grate the laundry soap with a grater or use a food processor. Approximately 2/3 of a bar of soap will make 1 cup of grated soap.
Add the ½ cup of Borax and ½ cup of washing soda to the grated soap. Shake and/or mix well
To Use:
One tablespoon of detergent is sufficient per load of wash. If you have a high-efficiency machine, you might want to experiment with using a little less detergent for normal loads.
If your clothes come out feeling stiff, lower the amount of detergent. For clothes that are heavily soiled, add a teaspoon more of the detergent..
Yield:
The recipe yields 2 cups of laundry detergent.
If you use 1 tablespoon per load, you will be able to wash 32 loads of clothes.
This recipe worked great for about six months. However lately it is not as effective. Has anyone else had this problem?
Traci, I use an all natural whitener with my homemade laundry soap to keep my clothes bright.
As a side note, are you using Fels Neptha soap? I tried this recipe using other natural soaps and found my clothes growing dingy after a while. Fels Neptha is much more effective in cleaning laundry than the average bar of soap out there. Thought I’d mention it, just in case!