I have been thinking about this for some time now. I really like the idea of a cleaning my house and laundry with greener and more natural products. Safer and in some cases, as I will explain here, cheaper.
This post is mostly about my homemade laundry soap. I go through tons of laundry at my house, mountains of it. A lot of them are pastels for my girls, who simply love the mud and anything else they can possibly get on them.
So started my journey. With the economy as it is these days, we make barely enough money to pay the bills and get a few basic groceries. I have read online how homemade laundry soap is so much cheaper. I thought about this, cheaper is great, but does it clean? So instead of buying my usual detergent 2 months ago, I bought the ingredients to make it and then would just hope for the best. The first few formulas were a disaster! I browsed some more and found new ones, and took the ones that worked fairly good and changed it to how I liked it. I finally succeeded with 2 formulas, one powder and one liquid.
Make no mistake, these are no miracle workers, I still have to pre-soak and pre-treat. Sometimes I will pull something out of the washer and spray it down and throw it back in the laundry for the next round. All in all, my close are clean and smell good too!
To go along with my homemade laundry soap, I have made some fabric softener and pre-treating spray.
As I have the supplies to make soap, I get to choose from a variety of different scents. (I also so have a soap shop on Etsy-link to the left)
I make my laundry soap with my hand-poured goats milk soap, great scents, even cheaper than buying soap, and still works nicely.
I am currently selling a Make Your Own Liquid Laundry Soap Kit in my soap shop so you can make some of this at home. I will post my formulas for pre-treating spray and softener in a later post, when I make sure they are perfect.
More posts on making my house greener, safer and more natural will come as I slowly switch over.
By the way, to buy all the ingredients and make my own laundry items really has been a lot cheaper!
Good luck with the home-made stuff. I found it usually takes a week or two to get used to but I really like the Home-Made laundry soap better than Tide even, saved dollars and I never seem to run out.
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