Light and Breezy...DIY laundry soap.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled 

posts that make people cry

to bring you

Chrissy's Version of Homemade Laundry Soap!

Okay...

So. There are like a million websites and blogs out there with 

variations on this same stuff. Humor me. I'm proud of myself on this.

FIRST.

I bought some stuff:

I spent $16. I had some of it already - like the baking soda and essential oil.

Then... I did this:

Smells nice...

Next I thought I'd go the traditional route and stick it in the food processor.

That. Did. NOT. Work.

It made a huge mess, made a loud noise, and did not reduce the soap to small crumbs.

So... I did this:

Love my Vitamix. You  need one. Yes you do.

It's my all-time favorite appliance.

THIS worked.

*Tip - adding some of the baking soda to the soap helped keep it from turning into a mushy ball and kept it all crumbly like I had hoped for!

See?

So then  I started adding it all together.

Soapy goodness...

Mix, mix, mix, stir, stir, stir...

Then I added some of this...

about 1/5 of the bottle.

It's orange. It could be any scent, but I figured orange was safe for the whole family.

Then I mixed it all with a wisk, then my hands, then a spoon... just to be sure.

When I was happy with the blendedness of the whole thing...

I put it into cute jars!

Aren't they adorable?!!?

Then I took them to my new laundry area...

(Where I labeled them all cute and stuff.)

Ooohhh.... aahhhhh.... pretty!!

Another view....

Two extra bottles on the left - one is plain Borax (toilets and stuff),

the other is some extra laundry detergent.

Okay... so THEN...

I ran a load of clothes with it.

I used cold water, just to be sure it dissolved well.

I put it inside the drum of the front-loading washer -

 not sure how it would work in the dispenser -

I'll try that next time.

I like it!! Everything is clean, I even washed the nasty kitchen towels and they came out smelling fresh and looking clean!

OH...

and I only used like 1/4 cup of detergent for the whole load!

At that rate I estimate that this will last me about 4 months

even with the amount of laundry I do in this house!!

4 months in a house of 9 people, for $16!

NICE!

{Ingredients}

1 box Borax

1 box Arm & Hammer Washing Soda

1 box Color Safe Bleach additive

1 largeish tub of store-brand oxycleaner

2 bars Fels-Naptha

2 boxes baking soda

Essential Oil (optional)