How to Make Your Own Laundry Detergent Powder
Frugal, Simple, Natural, Easy - And it gets your clothes clean.
Did you know you can make your own laundry detergent? It’s a super easy way to save money.
This recipe makes a powder detergent that gives you clean and fresh-smelling laundry, without spending a bundle on store-bought laundry soap.
Supplies / Ingredients:
20 Mule Team Borax
Arm & Hammer Washing Soda (Big yellow box w/ red lettering - this is NOT baking SODA!)
1 Bar Soap - I use regular Ivory soap.
Technique:
Push the soap bar into your food processor and process until the soap is turned into very fine flakes.
Mix it with 1 cup Borax and 1 cup washing soda. I mixed mine by stirring it up to combine and then by placing in a plastic container with a lid and shaking it up!
I heard you can add some vanilla extract (pure) along with some lavender oil and mix that in for a nice fragrance! I haven’t tried that yet. I’m going to, however! I love lavender and vanilla!
This is highly concentrated - you only need to use 1 to 2 Tablespoons per wash load. Please allow the mixture to mix with water before adding your laundry~!
There’s a liquid-detergent recipe out there if you prefer. I haven’t tried making that yet, but I plan to!
The cost for my supplies which were 1 large box Borax, 1 large box of Washing Soda, and 3 bars of Ivory (they were on sale) totaled about $11.00. I haven’t done a cost / price analysis yet, but I’m pretty sure this first batch is going to last a long time and I have supplies for several more batches. According to my estimate, I think I’m washing laundry for about half-a-penny per load.
Fabulous?
