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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?

Okay let’s get motivated to restock our supplies for better / fresher / cleaner homes and laundry care items - today I found some excellent deals and offers in the form of $1.00+ off coupons and Buy 1 / Get 1 Free offers from manufacturers of Downy Wrinkle Releaser, Febreeze, Dryel and Bounce.

One of the things I LOVE about the web, is that manufacturers now have their own product-related web sites with tips, product information, and… COUPONS and free offers.

Here’s the links / information to get your coupons.

Ivory Snow Laundry Detergent Coupon via U.S. Mail ($2.00)
http://www.pureivorysnow.com/coupon/mailto.html

Printable Coupons
http://www.pureivorysnow.com/coupon/thankyou.html
Save $1.50 Off Dryel Spray Starch
FeBreeze laundry Odor Eliminator Buy 2 Get 1 Free

$1.00 Off Downy Wrinkle Releaser (Printable, PDF)
http://www.downyez.com/pdf/DownyezCoupon.pdf

Valuable Coupons from Febreeze, Downy, Bounce, Dryel + Enter $3500 Shopping Spree Sweepstakes
No Strings Attached! No surveys or otherwise, just fill out the form for coupons.
http://www.specialclothescare.com/?page_id=18 

Being Booga Domestic Goodness prefers to make many cleaning and clothing-care products homemade / from scratch from simple and cheap ingredients, however, who, in all frugal domestic-goodness style, could pass up a great deal on a store-bought product combined with a valuable coupon? Being Booga recommends using these coupons only when the products go on extreme sale in order to maximize the value of the product and offer! In the meantime, keep using / trying new natural cleaning and clothing-care solutions from the “recipes” offered here.

Good Luck and Happy Spring!