Homemade Laundry Soap For Well Water

This recipe can easily be changed to fit your tastes and laundry needs.

Homemade laundry soap for well water. Use whatever ingredients you are comfortable with to explain some people are comfortable. I have soft well water and have come up with this particular recipe that can be made for pennies per load. I use 1 tablespoon of oxyclean to each load because i have semi hard well water. My colored clothes are bright and whites are bright white.

I grate 2 4 5oz bars to make my laundry soap. If something is stained badly i pretreat the stain. You may need to test and adjust your formula to include even more. Diy alternatives are often just as effective and much less expensive.

Unfortunately soap does not perform well in hard water. Yes your homemade laundry soap probably already includes borax and or washing soda but when you only add a few tablespoons of the mix to the wash cycle the amount of borax soda is negligible at that point. Add the baking soda to the mix and stir until combined. Washing soda and borax should be available at your local grocery store on the laundry aisle.

Bronner s ivory or other natural unscented bar soap if you have ever made your own soap the laundry version of this coconut oil soap recipe is hands down the best bar soap i ve ever found for making laundry soap. I ve shared my homemade laundry soap but this variation is formulated for high efficiency washers. Use the spoon to stir the ingredients until the washing soda has dissolved. Homemade laundry detergents often rely on a pure soap as a basic ingredient.

Many of them are made for places with hard water but lucky me. Be aware that homemade is not detergent but laundry soap. Try adding 1 4 1 2 cup of either or both to help soften your water and boost your homemade laundry soap s effectiveness. To make this homemade laundry soap pour the washing soda into the bucket add enough hot water to cover the washing soda.

Borax 20 mule team borax available at most grocery stores. Instead of zote soap use 4 bars fels naptha soap grated instead of gain use 1 container downy unstopables 19 5 oz other scents can be substituted as well. 76 ounce box of 20 mule team borax 4 99. A 55 ounce box of arm hammer super washing soda 3 99.

If making homemade laundry detergent for use in hard water areas increase the amount of borax by at least one third to produce better cleaning. I first considered the idea of homemade laundry detergent when a friend s mom made hers while i was visiting their house 15 years ago wow i just felt old. I chose this combination because it works so well with mineral filled water. Softwater homemade liquid laundry detergent 3 ingredients.

Laundry detergent is an easy switch from store bought to homemade. My improved homemade recipe uses baking soda instead of washing soda and adds 1 3 cup of kosher salt per cup of borax to soften water and improve greatly the surfactant property decreases surface tension and improves wetting quality so clothes are able to absorb more water and dirt gets pushed out it is water that cleans not the soap but you. Ever wonder about all those homemade laundry detergent soap recipes that you see around.