Sunday, January 6, 2013

Homemade Laundry Detergent

You guys.

I just made laundry detergent and it was intense!

Ok maybe not intense but I highly suggest you do it outside because you might start to feel it once you start mixing it together. I used the recipe that is posted over on Diary of a Stay at Home Mom.

For all of the ingredients, including the container it was $28.00! And it made A LOT. You are only supposed to use 1-2 tablespoons per load so it should last a really long time. Oh and you can microwave the soap, I only did one bar in the microwave because I was afraid it might blow up or turn us into those people on The Hills Have Eyes. But microwaving it makes it turn into powder whenever it cools down. Science experiment anyone?

You literally grate the soap and mix everything together and that's it! It took me less than 10 minutes.


I tested it out on my husbands laundry... I was not about to ruin all of my clothes if I somehow screwed up the recipe, sorry Ben. 

But it was a success! And all of the ingredients are right next to each other at Walmart, so I didn't have to go searching all over the place for them, score!

9 comments:

  1. Awesome! That's so funny about his clothes! Hahah. I made a similar recipe a couple months ago and I loved it! I seriously about cut my hand off with my cheese grater...I've since been band from using it, and now own a food processor for next time haha

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    1. I totally almost got my finger in the grater with mine! It was kind of terrifying! Haha!!

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  2. Awesome! I posted about finding a recipe on Friday. I've been wanting to make a batch.

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    1. I am still loving it! And I saw that you made some from your instagram picture! =)

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  3. Hi Jenni! Thanks for stopping by and following! I'm now your newest GFC follower :))

    Paula
    lifeasweknowitbypaula.blogspot.com

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  4. I always see this on Pinterest and wonder if it's worth a shot! So glad to hear it was a success!

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  5. Very interesting. How does it clean compared to normal detergent? This would save so much money considering how many loads of laundry my husband does.

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    1. Lisa,

      To me it works just as good if not better than regular store bought detergent. I have not had any issues with it and have been using it for a couple of weeks now. If we do have something that has a stain or something on it (for example whenever we were going through potty training) I use the set-in stain spray from Shout. I highly recommend trying this out! =)

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