Homemade laundry soap and more clay tags.

One thing I haven't talked about on this blog yet is my love for homemade cleaning products.  This year I started mixing up my own laundry detergent.  It's much cheaper and easy to make.

Here's the recipe I use:

1 cup of Arm & Hammer Washing Soda
1 cup of 20 Mule Team Borax
1 bar of Fels Naptha

All three ingredients are found in the laundry detergent aisle at my local Walmart.  If you want your soap to be completely white I hear that Ivory works just as well as Fels Naptha, although I've only tried the latter.

Grate the Fels Naptha, mix three ingredients together, store in an airtight container, and you're set.  1 spoonful for small or medium loads and 2 spoonfuls for large loads.  The double batch pictured should last at least the rest of the year.

Feel free to adjust the ingredient amounts to your liking.  I started out using 1 1/3 cups of washing soda and borax and found that 1 cup each worked just as well.

Obviously I needed a shiny new jar to keep the soap in and a vintage soup spoon for a scoop.  Also, no container can escape my clay tags these days.  I wrote the measuring instructions on the back of the large one.