Homemade Laundry Sauce
96
servings10
minutes20
minutesIngredients
2 bars Fels Naptha
2 cups Borax powder
2 cups Washing Soda
10 cups water
Directions
- Grate the Fels Naptha using either a cheese grater or a food processor (much faster).
- Put the water and the grated Fels Naptha into a large pot and heat on medium-high on the stove, stirring occasionally. You don’t really want the water to come to a vigorous boil, and you don’t want to stir too much. Just gently mix. If it starts looking a little frothy, you’re working too hard
- Once the Fels Naptha has completely dissolved in the water, remove from heat and stir in your washing soda and borax until they are completely dissolved as well.
- Let the mixture cool on the counter, stirring every 30 minutes or so as it cools and begins to separate.
- After a couple of hours, you may want to switch to using an immersion blender or hand mixer to really thoroughly mix the sauce. It will really thicken as it cools, and the better you can mix it the less it will separate later
- Once the mixture is fully cooled and thoroughly mixed it should be the consistency of a thick paste, like good mashed potatoes
- Move the mixture into a storage container (I use Mason jars) with a good lid
- Use 2 Tbsp per load of laundry (no, really!)
I started making this laundry detergent when we need to use scent-free detergent for my youngest daughter. Guys, that stuff is expensive. And why?? It has less stuff in it, shouldn’t it be less?? Also it only came in like a sample sized bottle and she was a baby so we were doing like 27 loads of laundry a day, probably. I don’t own stock in laundry detergent companies, so I decided I would just make my own detergent. Like a normal person.
She doesn’t need scent free stuff anymore, but it is SO. CHEAP to make this stuff. The full recipe above makes about 3.5 Mason jars full. Let’s say 3 for math’s sake. Each Mason jar will do 28 loads of laundry, AT LEAST. So we’re getting a minimum of 84 loads of laundry (it’s close to 100, or more), and it costs ~about~ $4.50 to make this recipe. Plus, I think it works better. Also mason jars are smaller and they fit perfectly in the drawer under my washer. And don’t leak blue goo everywhere.
Have you seen those TikToks of people “stripping” their sheets, towels, hats, etc? They’re using these ingredients, guys. It works, try it!
