Buy these ingredients at the dollar store. You will only need 2 tablespoons per load of laundry.
First grate your soap, then mix all ingredients together. I used two garbage bags doubled up. Tie well and shake all your ingredients around a few times. Put into a container with a lid.
You can add 1-2 containers of fabric softener crystals into the mix for a nice smell.
By coville123 from Brockville, Ontario
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My first load was tried on my son's clothes. He works at a fast food resteraunt. Not only are the clothes clean but no fast food smell.
This is the same recipe that I use but add essential oils for the smell! Love this!
By the way, the washing soda is found in the same section as laundry soaps in larger stores. The washing soda box will have other ways to use it around your home.
I might have to try this. There are less ingredients to screw up my septic system.
What size of Oxyclean do you use?? You just say 2 containers.
Is that regular baking soda in the box. I have never heard of washing soda. Also does it work with the front loader HE detergent washers?
Washing soda is BORAX found in the laundry det. isle in most stores.
Washing soda and Borax are two different things, that's why it calls for both!
They are not the same thing. I found an article that explains the differences.
www.20muleteamlaundry.com/
Here is the short version, quoted from the site.
"Washing soda or soda ash is the common name for sodium carbonate, this naturally occurring mineral carries the formula Na2CO3. Washing soda itself is extremely alkaline with a pH level of 11.
Borax on the other hand has a slightly different chemical composition of sodium tetraborate or Na2B4O7. Like washing soda, borax is also quite alkaline, though not quite to the same level as the other substance."
Again, what size container of Oxyclean? Would love to try this but want to make it right.
This sounds like a good recipe but the question about how much Oxiclean to use has never been answered and since this was originally posted in 2012?
Maybe someone who has tried making this could post their recipe and include how much Oxiclean they used?
Super washing soda 3lb 7 oz; Borax 4lb 12oz; pure baking soda 4lb; Oxy-Clean 1.3lb; 3 bars soap (I used Ivory) & I used Downey 28 oz crystals.
I was making this for a while. But I wash in a mini washer. I don't know if it will melt down the soap. I will buy the borax just in case. I don't wash a lot so I use gain.
I just buy powdered detergent. Its very cheap. I mix a couple of tablespoons in an bottle, add water and shake. Still have more than half box left after 2 years.
Yes! I bought one of those big bags of detergent with Spanish writing on it. This stuff works great and lasts longer than the liquid.
Oxiclean? washing soap? where do you get these items????
I can get those at my local Fred Meyer store. Oxiclean is in nearly every supermarket and washing soda should be available at any large store too. If you can't find them in your local area, you can also order them on Amazon.
I have never heard of washing soda before. Who makes it?
Arm and Hammer makes it, the same company that makes baking soda. You should be able to find it in the laundry aisle of any larger supermarket.
I hate grating the soap bars and no longer have a blender to "grate" the bars. I just put it in the microwave for about 3 minutes on high - it puffs up and is VERY easy to just crumble into your dry ingredients. BE SURE TO LET IT COOL at least 30-45 minutes tho - it is VERY hot in the center. Just crumble with your fingers into the mix you have made! Easy peasy!
Sorry, washing soda is plain old baking
soda by Arm and Hammer. NOT Borax. ***
Baking soda and washing soda are slightly different. You can make washing soda at home by putting baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) in the oven for about an hour at 400 degrees. It releases steam and carbon dioxide and becomes sodium carbonate.
You should also be able to buy it in the laundry aisle of any big box store.
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