All of those things work for me.

Today’s post is about homemade laundry soap. In the circle of blogs that I read and that I tend to come across, there are many mentions of making your own soap. My version is no different but it fits the "works for me" theme. I use one tablespoon of soap per load in my front-loading washer with no problems. I use vinegar in the bleach and softener cups too; I’m not sure what the volume is but I always assume that it’s somewhere around one half cup total.

My ingredients consist of washing soda, borax, a bar of laundry soap (I use Sunlight since that’s what I can find locally), and the optional oxi product. A few weeks before I’m ready to mix up a new batch, I unwrap and sit out the bar of soap to get nice and dried out. Then about a week before I’m ready, I use the fine side of a cheese grater to grate it and then sit it in the open again.  On soap-mixing day, I place the soap in my food processor and turn it into a powder. I add in one and a half cups each of the washing soda and borax and give it another spin. Be careful taking the lid off the processor as the dust gets in your lungs and will make you cough. I then stir in one cup of the oxi powder and mix it up well. One batch fits very nicely in this old frozen yogurt container.

I haven’t done the math on the savings but I trust others who have and say that it works out to only pennies a load. That’s good enough for me and no scents (no pun intended) in my laundry.

What works for you?