Welcome to another week of Monday's Mommy. This week's Mommy is Trinity from Noise With Dirt.
She's a mom to two darling little boys.
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Hi, all. I’m Trinity. I post over at Noise with Dirt. I was really excited when Etta offered to let people guest post! I hope you enjoy this and let me know if you try it and it works for you!
It's no secret I'm cheap.
Sometimes it's beneficial. Sometimes it's not. This is one of the situations where it has been extremely beneficial to our family.
There were a bunch of us talking on twitter one night about making laundry detergent. I tried a recipe for the dry stuff, but my front loader didn't like it so much. So I switched to liquid. It's made such a big difference in our clothes. That, combined with the stain remover I've started making at home, kept M's clothes the cleanest of any of the people who worked with him at the coffee shop when he was working there.
It's a really easy recipe, too. [modified from One Good Thing]
1 bar of soap of your choosing [I use the soap M uses. He and the boys have sensitive skin, and it doesn't bother any of them.]
1 cup of washing soda
1 cup of borax
2 gallon sized jugs
That's it.
Grate the soap and mix it with one gallon of water. Bring that to a boil and stir in the washing soda and borax. Add another gallon of water, and pour into the containers. A funnel really helps, but it isn't always necessary. When I made this batch, I decided to throw caution to the wind [read: I was lazy] and I mixed all of the dry ingredients together before pouring them in the pot with the first gallon of water. Then the kids started screaming for some reason, and I failed to take any other pictures. I know, bad blogger.
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| Soap, Washing Soda, & Borax |
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| Finished Product! |
It tends to separate, so I just give it a good shake before I pour it into the machine. It really does work, and it's saved us so much money in the past few months. I haven't bothered to keep track of how much each recipe costs us, because we actually haven't bought the soap M uses in a while [we get it in bulk from Costco], but I know the borax and washing soda were around $3 a box and I've only used three cups of each in the last few months.
I also don't measure it before I pour it into the dispenser. For me, it depends on how dirty the clothes are.
I hope if you try it it works as well for you as it has for me.
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I have done this before, too! It was fun, easy, and cheap. :-D The only thing is, I started to get buildup on my diapers from it. I used Coast soap. My SIL said I should have used a special kind of washing soap for the bar. Anybody know about this?
ReplyDeleteHi Rachel,
DeleteI actually don't use this on my diapers. I tried a couple of times, discovered the build up, and decided to just stick with the Seventh Generation detergent I've always used on them.
I did a quick google search and found a blog [a cloth diaper one, at that!] that says Dr. Bronner's, Zote, or goat milk soap should work.
Hope that helps!
-Trinity
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