home made laundty soap results
#11
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I used the bar of soap, but just one cup of the borax and one cup of the washing soda.
#14
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Minnesota
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I used the dry version, but remember my mom using the boiled version of it many years - and it works! But, I do not have place to store the boiled version, so will remain with the dry - I just hate grating the soap - and in my last batch, I used mom's old homemade soap - it is the one with lye in it - wow! It sure got the whites nice and white - but then I don't know anyone who did not have a white wash years ago when using this method- and everyone hung clothes out on the line and it got the good old sunshine - to help bleach whites... I do not hang out whites - just jeans and rugs -
#15
I use to make this soap and used it for a long time. With the cost of laundry soap going up so high, I will probably go back to it. I also made a fabric softener. Both worked great.
#16
Recipes like this and for the fabric softener are on the Duggar Family website. http://www.duggarfamily.com/
#17
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Location: Mableton, GA
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The dry recipe I used was to grate one bar of soap. I used something I had in the house, but the recipe I saw said Ivory or Fels Naptha, and one cup of washing soda and one cup of 20 Mule Team Borax. I like it.
#18
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Join Date: Jun 2011
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I use the grater on my food processer to grate the fels napa. Must admit I got out of the habit of buying soap again, maybe aftger the first of the year I'll get back into it. really a money saver. I've been reduced to buying the Off brands of soap and just doesn't get grease out.
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