Babysafe Homemade Laundry Detergent

RE: Babysafe Homemade Laundry Detergent Post By (Guest Post) (09/15/2007) What is washing soda and where can you get it? Report Spam or Abuse RE: Babysafe Homemade Laundry Detergent Post By (Guest Post) (09/15/2007) There are recipes for laundry detergents on this site if you are still interested. In the search box at the top of the page, type in laundry detergent. I have never tried them as I'm not interested in using them, but a lot of people make their own. The ones with fels-naptha would be good as that's what grandma used to use all the time and it does remove stains! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Babysafe Homemade Laundry Detergent Post by lmn_tree (2) | (09/14/2007) Contact I don't. I use regular detergent I get on sale (and with coupons). I found it made no difference, although I started with dye and fragrance free. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Babysafe Homemade Laundry Detergent Post By bambi2003. (Guest Post) (09/14/2007) I use Ivory soap, washing soda (different than backing soda) and hot water. All I do is grate a bar of Ivory soap and melt it in a pot of water, then I fill up a bucket with about 4 gallons of hot water and add the soap, make sure the soap is smooth or your laundry soap will be lumpy. Last add 2 cups of the washing soda and stir. As it cools it will get thick and then you can put it in your bottles. I just use water jugs. You use a cup per load. I like the way it works your clothes don't have a perfume smell, but it's the perfume that's bad for us anyway. Hope this helps you. For more great homemade things like baby wipes check out http://www.recipegoldmine.com Report Spam or Abuse RE: Babysafe Homemade Laundry Detergent Post By Heather, Australia (Guest Post) (09/14/2007) Low Suds Laundry Gel - suitable for top or front loading washing machines. Take one bar of laundry soap (eg Velvet soap) and shred. Place into two quarts (1.9 liters) of simmering water. Stir well and allow to sit, stirring occasionally till completely dissolved. Pour into a 2 gallon (7.4 liter) bucket and add 1 gallon (3.7 liters) of cold water. Dissolve 2 tsp of lye in one cup of cold water (never use an aluminum container for this process - preferably use stainless steel) and when main mixture is cool add the dissolved lye and two cups of borax to the mixture and stir very well until the borax is dissolved. You can add a few drops of essence oils if you want fragrance. Add enough water to the fill the bucket, stir, set aside covered until the next day. It should be a gel that dissolves perfectly into a load of wash. Use one or two cups per wash load. I am using caustic soda for the lye. Both the caustic soda and borax are available from the supermarket. WARNING: Always add your solid form lye (sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, caustic soda) to the liquid. If the liquid were added to the solid form lye a violent reaction could result. This means you could have a "volcano" erupt out of your container. Any form of lye will give off poisonous fumes so don't breathe the fumes in and prepare in a well ventilated area. Do not have children present. The caustic soda prevents your washing machine from clogging up. I put the gel directly into the drum of the front loading washing machine. The gel is firmish and will clog up the normal dispenser. Report Spam or Abuse