How to Make Homemade Laundry Detergent

The reason for this is that you can be scared to hurt your clothes with recipes you don't know about for sure, and also you need to invest in some ingredients you may not normally use in your home. However, many of the ingredients below can also be used in several other homemade cleaning recipes around your home.
In addition, these recipes have been used successfully for years by people before commercial laundry detergents became popular, and you can choose what ingredients you place in them, and what scents, if any, you put into your family's clothes.
Finally, the recipe below are much cheaper than buying laundry detergent, which is an added bonus!

Homemade Laundry Detergent Powder

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup laundry soap flakes*
• 1/2 cup baking soda
• 1/4 cup washing soda
• 1/4 cup borax

Directions:
Mix all the ingredients together and place into a 16 ounce (or larger) plastic container, with a lid.
Each time that you do a load of laundry use 1/2 cup of this mixture as your laundry detergent.
* Nowadays it can be difficult to actually find soap flakes. You can make your own, however, by grating a bar of laundry soap with a kitchen grater.
Examples of laundry soap include Fels-Naptha , Ivory, Sunlight, Kirks Castile Bar Soap, or Zote, for example.

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