Home Made Laundry Soap

If you have been skeptical on making home made laundry soap, or how it will work out with your more expensive clothing items, fear no more!!

I may be some what of a minimalist, BUT I do have some expensive clothing and some I get them cheap at http://shopgoodwill.com or my local goodwill which is usually even cheaper, especially when they run a sale! I still consider them expensive fancy clothes! Here is how we make laundry soap in our house.

What you will need: 3 bars of ivory soap, large stock pot and two 5 gallon buckets with a lids.

Shave or cut down the bars of ivory soap. (It makes them melt quicker and saves you money on the heating of the stove)

Fill up your stock pot with water

Put the shaved soap in and boil

watch so it doesnt over flow!

Once it has all melted down (stirring occasionally) turn off the heat and let it sit over night.

If you are patient, dont have a stove or just like to experiment you can just soak it in the water but it will take days!! Boiling is really the easiest and best method and boy will it make your house smell nice and clean too

Once it has all boiled down let it sit over night. It will turn it to a gelatinous slime and thick you need to break this up with a big spoon or spatula and dump about half of it into your 5 gallon bucket. Fill the remainder of the 5 gallon bucket up with water and stir it to help it mix. Take your stock pot of remaining soap slime and dump it into another 5 gallon bucket and fill them up with water. Now you have 10 gallons of laundry soap for pennies! I say pennies because often you can find 3 bars of soap at the dollar store or with coupons and sales often cheaper then that!

You can always reuse and refill your existing laundry soap containers but if you get it to thick it may not come out of the spout easily.

Always keep lids on your 5 gallon buckets of soap as it is a drowning hazard for little ones. You can store it in smaller containers in your laundry room of course, and keep the extra in the garage and refill as needed. This also saves you trips to the store, which we all know saves money!

This is a huge money saver and a fun project! Yes, I can buy laundry soap but why waste the money :)

There are many different home made soap recipes, I prefer to not incur additional expenses on adding more ingrediants when this works great as it is.