How To Make Laundry Detergent

Have you been wanting to know how to make laundry detergent? Kendra has made it for years and taught me. We decided to see exactly or pretty darn close, how much a 5 gallon bucket of home made laundry detergent would cost us. Kendra actually figured out approximately how long the 5 gallon bucket would last each of our families.


Here is the cost for 11 batches:

11 Bars Fels-Naptha =$11
2 Boxes Super Washing Soda = $6.48
1 Box Borax Detergent Booster= $3.38 ——Total cost – $20.86 plus tax

This much makes 11 batches which is 33 cups 528 TBLS = .04 Cents a load
We made a 5 gallon bucket with 25 batches (give or take a couple) 105 cups or 1680 tbls

Kendra: If I do 2 loads a day (which I do) that is 730 tablespoons a year
This should last me 2 and 1/3 years!

Linda: does 4 loads a week, there are 52 weeks in a year. So she will do 208 batches a year so it should last her a little over 8 years!! Crazy!

Here is the finished product:


This is just one more way to be prepared for the unexpected and save money too! Here is a YouTube to see how to make it.

 

How to Make Laundry Detergent

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Yield: 3 to 3-1/2 cups

 

Ingredients

• 1 Fels-Naptha Bar-grated either by hand, food processor, salad shooter-this is what we used
• 1 cup Borax Detergent Booster
• 1 cup Super Washing Soda (not regular baking soda)

Instructions

1. Put these 3 ingredients in a blender to blend and grate the Fels-Naptha even more. After doing this it will look just like the store purchased detergent but will not include all the “fillers”. You will use less product per load and will have less “bubbles”. Remember just having bubbles doesn’t mean clean…..I use 1 tablespoon per load. I have an HE-High Efficiency washer and it works great!

http://www.foodstoragemoms.com/laundry-detergent/