The Easiest Homemade Laundry Soap

Make Laundry Soap at Home for under $25!

This recipe lasted my 6-person family around 3 months. Depending on how often you wash clothes and how large your load sizes are, you could easily get two months out of this. I'm doing laundry for three teenagers, a middle schooler, and two adults. We also have 13 animals contributing to the mess (2 goats, 6 chickens, and five cats), so our household gets messy! I've been on the search for years for an inexpensive homemade laundry soap that also smells nice, and this one has been wonderful! If you wanted to trim a little of the cost, you could omit the Purex crystals, but I like my laundry smelling so fresh and clean. The $4 to add them into the mix is worth it to me. Plus, I have three sons and a husband whose socks need all the help they can get!

The Supplies

My costs when purchased at Walmart:

one box Borax: $5.97

one box Washing Soda: $5.38

21 oz.Purex Crystals: $3.97

two bars of Fels Naptha Soap: $1.78 each x 2= $3.56 (I only used two of the three bars pictured above)

1.77lb tub oxi clean powder: $5.98

total cost $24.86!

Directions:

I used to make homemade laundry soap by taking at least an hour to shred the soap bars into tiny pieces, which left me frustrated and no longer wanting to take the time to make the soap. But the benefits of homemade laundry soap are numerous and I decided I needed to learn another way to tackle this. That's when I learned that microwaving the bars of soap will cause them to puff up, allowing them to be crumbled by hand, thus saving time and energy. This is step one.

1. Cut all the Fels Naptha soap into chunks and place in a microwave-safe bowl. 

2. Microwave it 30 seconds at a time until it is puffy. It'll look paler than the original soap (pictured below)

3. Allow the soap to cool before trying to crumble it (It WILL be hot!). Once it's cool to the touch, crumble it with your fingers and set it aside.

4. Dump the washing soda, oxi clean, Purex Crystals, and Borax into a large glass jar like the one pictured. Give is a good stir and voila! Homemade laundry soap. ( Don't mind how dirty it is. I hadn't washed out the previous soap that was in it!😅)

It really is that easy! I use about 1/8 c for regular loads and 1/4c for large or heavily soiled loads.

I hope you try this and that you like it. If you do, let me know if it works for you!

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