ONLY 1 tablespoon of this soap for a large load of laundry! REALLY! This stuff is a concentrated version so it packs a lot of cleaning power. One quart will clean about 64 loads of laundry. That means that one batch of laundry soap, 5 quarts, will last you about 320 loads!
Step 1: Place 6 Cups of water on stove to heat. (You do not want it to boil, just get very, very hot)
Step 2: Grate your two bars of Fels-Naptha Soap. The finer the better. It will melt faster that way. (Food Processor works great).
Step 2: Add Fels-Naptha soap to hot water. Stir continuously for 15 minutes until all soap has dissolved. It should look frothy and bubbly. Do not let it boil...it will make a mess.
Step 3: Once soap has melted remove from heat and add in 2 cups of Borax and 2 cups of Super Washing Soda. Stir until all dissolved, 3-5 minutes.
Step 4: Pour mixture equally into 4 quart sized canning jars.
Option #1 Step 5: Add water to fill up to shoulders of jar and mix together and let it set for 8 hours.
Option #2 Step 5: Let jars set for the full 8 hours and then add hot water and fill to shoulders of jar.
Step 6: Use a spoon to mix up the hot water and goopy mixture (may or may not be hardened depending upon option #1 or #2 in step 5.
Step 7: Spoon contents from one jar into blender or mixer. Be frugal, use water and or spatula to get it all out!
Step 8: Mix thoroughly, beginning on low speed increasing speed gradually to high until it becomes thick and creamy. Spoon back into jar. Since mixture has puffed up a bunch you should have some left over. Your result will be something that looks like really thick, pale yellow whipped cream. You may need to scrape the sides down with a spatula a few times to get it all the way blended/mixed. It's like creaming the butter, sugar and eggs when you make cookies.
Pour/spoon the now blended soap back into the quart jar(s). Your jar(s) will be all the way full now and you may even have a little more for another jar. Pop a lid onto the jar(s) and your soap will keep indefinitely. It gets a little firmer in the jar when it sits, but it stays spoonable.
If you have a stain just rub in a little concentrate before washing.
Even better...it only cost approximately 1.7 CENTS PER LOAD! Amazing, right?! I never thought I would be so excited about laundry soap. Hop on over to the White Silk Purse, and Dana does a break down of the cost and about how much it would cost you to make enough for a year. Guess what...it is right around $20. Compare that cost to your favorite brand.
Just a few notes: The following makes 12 quart jars of laundry soap--
6 bars of Fels Naptha (.99 each)
1 box of 20 Mule Team Borax ($4.15)
1 box Arm & Hammer Washing Soda ($2.79)
then there was a little tax - .86 cents}
I made 12 quarts of concentrate for $13.74.
That means it costs 1.7cents per load. That also nearly uses up the above ingredients. (Sometimes I find the products on sale for even less, then I buy more!)
I had a little Borax left over� It�s good for lots of stuff. Read the box.
12 quarts of soap would do just over 14 loads of wash a week for a year!
I thought I�d need about 18 quarts for a year�s supply at my house.
The supplies for the soap are easy to store. I don�t feel compelled to make it all at once.
DRY VERSION --- I've tried the recipe dry this summer and have been happy with the result; especially happy that it only takes about 5 minutes to make and then does the job just as well. Here is the recipe: Grate two bars of Fels Naptha, then run the blade in your food processor that turns it into "powder." It won't be quite as fine as real powdered soap, but very close. Then add two cups of Borax and two cups of washing soda. It only take TWO TEASPOONS to do a large load. I have a soup spoon that holds two teaspoons that I use to measure. -- The hardest part is thinking that two teaspoons will do the job, but it does! -- I do keep a jar of the paste kind on hand to rub into tough stains.
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Recipe Makes: 320 Loads | ||
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