4 cups — hot tap water
1 soap bar of any kind (just stay away from moisturizing bars)
1 cup washing soda
1/2 cup Borax
Grate bar of soap and add to saucepan with water. Stir continually over medium-low heat until soap melts and dissolves.
Fill a five gallon bucket half full of hot tap water. Add melted soap, washing soda and Borax. Stir well until all powder is dissolved. Fill bucket to top with more hot water. Stir, cover and let sit overnight to thicken.
Stir and fill a used, clean laundry soap dispenser half full with soap and then fill rest of way with water. Shake before each use. It will gel.
Recipe makes 10 gallons.
Use:
Top load machines: 1/2 cup per load (approximately 320 loads);
front load machines: 1/4 cup per load (approximately 640 loads)
If you don’t want to do all that work, you can use your mix as powdered laundry soap. Use 1 tbsp per HE/Front load washes; 2 tbsp per Top load/regular washes.
If you’d rather buy a kit, we have them available for sale here.
