NOTE: I’ve personally stopped using homemade laundry soaps altogether. I know many people still have great success with them, but they started leaving a film/residue on our laundry. Might be our hard water, or maybe just the powder version, but I wrote a whole post diving deep into this issue here.
I’ve been meaning to try this out for so long now but for various reasons, never got around to it. But with the arrival of our first child on the way and faced with the need to wash all of his clothes and bedding, I finally got the push I needed to finally make my own homemade laundry detergent with all-natural ingredients!
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This homemade laundry detergent not only keeps nasty chemicals away from our family, it’s also a more frugal, sustainable, and greener alternative to commercial products. What’s not to love?
Ok, so on to the project!
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What you need:
I use (Dr. Bronner’s) Castile Soap, which is a natural soap made from vegetable oils and hemp. But you could just as easily use Dove bar soap or your favorite soap bar. You can find Dr. Bronner’s products at any organic store like Whole Foods and I think I even remember seeing it at some Walgreens. I found the borax and washing soda in the laundry aisle of my local supermarket.
What to do:
Since this detergent is low-suds, it’s PERFECT for HE/front-loading washers, but you just want to use less detergent (around 1/4 cup). Also, one of our readers (thanks, Rebecca!) shared her experience about adding the detergent to an HE washer, and had this advice:
My soap dispenser became plugged by the liquid soap. I had to run HOT water through the dispenser to dissolve the soap and “fix” the problem. I have since been adding the soap to the drum, letting the first little bit of water run in, stop and then add my clothes. It really surprises me that the soap would plug in the dispenser since it actually dissolves rather quickly and easily once the water is added and the drum makes a revolution or two. HOWEVER, I would caution others to add the liquid to the drum and not the dispenser! 🙂
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See? That wasn’t so bad, was it? Try this once and I guarantee you’ll love it. It’s homemade, contains all-natural ingredients, and when compared to commercial laundry detergents, saves you a ton of money every year! Plus you can rest assured that you’re not adding all kinds of nasty chemicals back into the water supply.
Since I’ve started using this recipe, I really can’t even stand the smell of walking down the laundry aisle at my supermarket. I’m all of a sudden extremely aware of everything that goes into making all those products smell the way they do – from the bleaches and dyes, to the colors and fragrances – a whole lot of artificial ingredients that come into contact with and stay on my clothes, towels, and bedding…No thank you!
So try this out and let me know what you think. I’d love to hear about your experience and how it worked out for you!
If you would rather use liquid castile soap, you can still make homemade laundry detergent, but just use the following recipe:
Ingredients
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This post was last modified on 17/10/2023 17:17
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