Homemade Laundry Soap
I love saving money, duh! So when my friend Kristen posted a recipe for homemade laundry soap I was all over it! Kristen and I went to high school together and have been able to reconnect through Facebook. She is the beautiful mommy of two little girls, Ellie and Hannah Rose who is brand spankin’ new! If I could handpick mommy friends to live close to and do life with, Kristen would definitely be one! Go here to check out her blog post on the laundry soap, and look around at all her other posts on things from hosting showers to cloth diapering!
I made a few minor changes to her recipe according to the things I chose to use/things I learned
Ingredients
1/2 bar fels-naphtha soap OR 1 bar ivory soap
1/2 cup borax
1/2 cup washing soda
Water
Large pot (I used the largest pot I had that was 8 quarts and it worked fine)
Clean laundry detergent bottles OR milk jugs
Funnel
Grate your fels-naphtha soap and being to a boil with 6 cups of water. Boil for 10 minutes. Add Borax and washing soda. Boil for 10 minutes, stir often to prevent boil-over. Add 6 cups hot water, stir until dissolved. Using a funnel, split between 2 containers. Fill containers up with more hot water leaving a few inches at the top so you can shake before using. Let sit for 24 hours. Shake before each use, use one cap-full or 1/2 cup.
*The first time I made it I did not add enough water in the last step so when I went to use it for the first time it was a semi-solid in the bottom of my container, so I just added more hot water and shook it and it was fine.
*This soap does not make suds in your washing machine, but that doesn’t mean it’s not working!
*I am very particular about making sure our clothes and house are clean and I feel like this does just as good of a job cleaning our clothes as any laundry soap I have used in the past.
*I was able to find all the ingredients right next to each other in the laundry aisle at walmart. One box of borax and washing soda will last you for many batches of soap! I spent less than $10 on 1 box of borax, one box of washing soda, 2 bars of fels-naphtha and a funnel. It works out to be about $0.01 per load as opposed to $0.25 of store bought.
*This soap is gentle enough for cloth diapers, and the borax box lists all kinds of ways you can clean with it in other parts of your home.
*The ingredients are all unscented, it just smells very fresh and clean without being heavily perfumed.
I really enjoy not having to add laundry detergent to our grocery list anymore, and it’s relaxing to me to spend time making things like this. I love that I feel like I am being a good homemaker and saving our family money!!!! Please let me know if you try it! Happy washing 
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