My homemade laundry detergent!

I finally needed to make more laundry soap, so here is my recipe!

1 cup of  castile soap

1/2 cup borax

1/2 cup washing soda or baking soda

shake well!

1 tbsp for a light load

2 tbsp for a heavy load

1/2 tbsp for HE washers

I love the peppermint Dr. Bronner's castile soap!

Some people use Fels Naptha soap for this part, but I think that is a little harsh for my kids!

Grate it finely!!

Pieces too large will be hard for your machine to use effectively.

To get what you need, it will take about 2/3 of a bar of the soap.

I save the last bit to wash myself with!

:)

Borax!

Cheap as dirt, can be used for many things!

Washing soda!

Shake well!

I keep it in an old pasta sauce jar that I can't use for canning.

Since I use an HE front loader, I use 1/2 tbsp per load.

Yep, on my jar is says tsp, but I meant tbsp.

Blame my mommy brain!

Update on my dish detergent recipe!!

Okay, y'all. The batch I made Monday and had two glorious loads of dishes washed by?

That stuff is BONE DRY in one of my favorite glass jars.

*head + desk*

I've been looking around the internet and have found that happens to a lot of people! The solution?

Instead of mixing your vinegar into your powdered mix, add your powder to your wash in the little cups on the door like usual, but squirt a bit of vinegar into the bottom of the dishwasher instead of mixing it into the powder.

AND

You could even just put the vinegar into the little hole where you put the rinse aid, instead of squirting it directly into the bottom of the dishwasher. (This is the method I'm going to start using, by the way!)

OR

You could mix your vinegar into your powdered mix before putting it in, but that sounds like a hassle to me!

Hope no one lost a nice jar because of this like I did. I guess it just didn't occur to me that it would dry up like that in a jar that sealed around the top as tightly as mine. Still strange, but nonetheless, there are usually solutions to snags if you look in the right place!

Thank goodness for the internet and there being lots of crunchy/frugal people in this world that have been there, done that!! :)