Homemade Laundry Soap Recipe

Are you ready to make your own laundry soap?  

It's pretty fast, very easy and boy-oh-boy are you going to save TONS of money!!!!  Try $150+ in savings for a family of four.  

This will make SIX 4 gallon batches.

Here's what you need for ONE YEAR+ which costs $13....for ONE YEAR!!!!!

I knew you were ready!
** BTW this process took about 15 minutes **

To start your 1st batch you will need:
1 cup Arm & Hammer Washing Soda
1 cup Borax
1 bar Zote soap. 
1 gallon of boiling water in one pot
2 gallons of boiling water in another pot
1 gallon cold water set aside for later
1 5 gallon plastic bucket

Boil the water in both pots.

While you are waiting for them to boil you will grate 1 bar of ZOTE soap.

Or have your 6 year old grate the soap since you HATE grating anything!

Add soap to the pot with 1 gallon of water.  
 Stir it until soap is melted.

Or have your darling daughter stir it cause she's the best at standing there stirring♥

  

It will get clumpy but keep stirring and it will turn into pink soup in no time!

Next you are going to add:

1 cup washing soda and 1 cup borax

Beware - it will foam.  

I should have used a bigger pot (but my stove top got very clean!)

 Stir until completely dissolved.  
About 5 min. or so.
Remove from heat.
This is what it will look like with all three ingredients cooked together.

Get your 5 gallon bucket ready.
Pour the pot filled with 2 gallons hot water into the bucket.
In my case I had my big-strong-man pour the water cause I'm a little wimpy in that department. 

Then pour the pot filled with your pink soup/soap into the bucket.
If you spill a little - it's OK you will just have very clean floors in the end. 

Stir these together then add 1 gallon of cold water.

Stir some more until completely mixed together. Put the lid on tight and let it sit overnight.  Make sure you give it it a stir right before you go to bed and again when you wake up.  This will give it a nice consistency and will break up any lumps.  I used my big spatula and it worked great.  My girls used their hands.  I say whatever works for you.

And that my bloggity friends is 4 gallons of laundry soap.  Pour some into your old Tide jug that you were paying over $.25 cents a load for and enjoy.  You can add 1-2 oz of essential oils to the liquid of you want but the soap smells clean and fresh without it.  This soap cleans VERY well and gets your whites white and stains out great!  It also works in the new he washing machines. When you run out, you have all the supplies you need to make more.  *Laundry soap will be gel-like when it's done.

Directions:

1/2 cup of laundry soap per load.

if you have a larger capacity washer or an extra dirty load, use 1 cup of soap.

The soap will not be sudsy in the washing machine. 

This equals out to be about $.016 cents a load for 1/2 cup and $.03 cents for 1 cup.  Right now I was paying $.30 cents a load using Tide.   Hello savings!  So instead of paying $18 at Costco for generic laundry soap I paid $13. for 1 years worth of laundry soap.  It will probably last more than a year since there is just 4 of us.  I'm excited to have this and am counting it as my blessing for the week.  Let me know if you have any questions or if you have made this and used it.  Would love to hear reviews.  So far everyone I know that has used it LOVES it!  Now if we can only learn how to make Downy♥

Tips:

The Borax and Arm & Hammer washing soap can be found in any grocery store.

The ZOTE we found in our local Mexican grocery store. (and now walmart is carrying it!)

If you can't find ZOTE you can use Fels Naptha but I've heard that ZOTE works the best.  And I heard that the pink ZOTE works better than the white ZOTE.

Good luck♥

** update** I have been using this recipe for over a year and LOVE it!  I will never go back to expensive laundry soap again. 
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