Large Family LAUNDRY SOAP DIY | How to Make Your Own LIQUID + POWDER LAUNDRY SOAP |

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Sos! My detergent is now lumpy. I keep it downstairs in our pantry. It has been cold down there? Do you think it is related to that?

Too many kids

how long is this good for once its made?

Instead of adding more water to the 5gallons , couldn’t you just use less of finished soap in laundry?

I do not like zote it is just not for me.🤔
Zote in the dry version does not dissolve.😮
And zote is a little too glossy in my opinion .😮
I have used every type of ingredients to make DIY home laundry detergent dry and liquid. 🤔
The majority of them just don't work for me.😮
Laundry soap bars that help to removing stains and are meant for hand washing your clothing only they are not a detergent. 🤔
I do like Fils-Nathpa stain remover bar.😃
I rather use my name brand laundry detergent that works.
Tide OxiClean and Regular Tide.😍
With white vinegar and some pure essential oils instead of store bought fabric softener which is extremely full of chemicals and also leaves a coat in your washing machine which causes damages to it.
😯
And I love to use a wooly ball with some pure essential oils as my scent instead of fabric sheets.😍
All the ingredients to make DIY homemade laundry detergent has become really expensive and sometimes hard to find.😮
And honestly I cannot see that one bar of zote can magically become 5 gallons of super concentrated laundry detergent.🤔
And zote is not a detergent.😮
I do use a homemade DIY liquid laundry detergent that I make but it is only four hand washing my laundry only.🤔
2 cups to 4 cups of Down dishwashing (detergent)😍 the blue one with a duck on it.
1/2 cup of Borax.🤔
1/2 cup laundry baking soda.
1/2 cup regular baking soda.
1/3 cup OxiClean.🤔
1/3 cup kosher salt . 🤔
30 to 60 drops of pure lavender essential oil.😍
20 to 40 drops of pure essential tea tree oil.😍
One 5 gallon bucket.🤔
One gallon hot water.🤔
You can add up to two gallons of hot water only.🤔
It's going to make a super concentrated laundry detergent. 😃
Only use (1 tsp) to (1 tbsp) of
the Down DIY homemade laundry detergent pur load a little goes a long way.😍
And only use white vinegar with some pure essential oil as your fabric softener 1/3 cup.😍
Mix all dry ingredients in the 5 gallon and add the one gallon of hot water.🙂
You can add another gallon of hot water if you like up to two gallons only.🤔
Add the Down .🙂
Mix it all up .☺️
I like placing my DIY Down laundry detergent in a one gallon glass jar.😍
The one with the very wide opening.😍
And I use a one teaspoon and a one tablespoon measuring spoon. 🙂
I use this for all of my hand washing laundry only.🤔
I use my Tide only for my washing machine.🤔
And I use white vinegar for hand washing and for my washing machine.😍
And I use Fils -Naptha bar for my clothing stains.🤔
It works for me.🙂

Love this video and you are so pretty like a blonde rose Byrne

First time running across making laundry soap. I find this pretty amazing as I believe for me, and this only applies to me. I find that using powered tide laundry soap is the best outcome for my clothes. Only thing is, is that I found after washing my sheets one time, I found the powdered soap left in them when it came time to fold. So I have been dissolving it with hot water before adding it right on top of my laundry, and then turning on the machine. Just last night, I put my laundry soap in with hot water in a kerner jar, screwed on the lid and shook in up to dissolve. Opened it up, put the lid back on and shook it again. About 10 to 15 seconds later standing by doing my dishes, the jar exploded! Thankfully I was not standing in front of the part that blew out a piece of the jar and it was load and startled me. It did not shadder the glass, only a three inch long piece of glass popped out. This is a lesson for anyone who did not know that this can happen. Could have been very dangerous situation. Still wiping soap off where it exploded in the direction that I was not standing. Be safe out there! 🤗

Are you saving any money making your own laundry soap?

Are you still using the homemade detergent? I know this was 8 months ago but I was hoping for an updated video.?

Isn’t Zote a toxic soap?

Well Angela apparently you're monkey is smarter than me. You're monkeys listen to you better than I did. I tried to make half the recipe I used 1/2 bar of zote soap and 1/2 cup of borax. I think that would have worked out okay. This is where I think I messed up. I also added 1/2cup of super washing soda. Instead of it turning out to be a good thick laundry soap. It turned out to be a big blob. That is when I realized your monkey is smarter than me. 😂. But the best part is....my daughter and I made a fun memory.

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I use one of the beaters from an old shorted-out sunbeam mixer in my drill. Any mixer beater will work, but Sunbeam beaters are bigger.

Watching you do things the hard way is a little painful but I appreciate these recipes thank you for sharing

and this doesnt mold? (liquid)

I just made the powdered soap. How much per load do I put in? Thanks!
Really enjoy your videos!

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Excellent video. Very easy to follow and very light to watch. A lot of learning. I will subscribe to your channel and make the products this weekend. Thank you.

Sounds good, but what about washing machine? Do you think that affects it ?
It’s a very honest question🙏

You’re inspiring! Thank you for sharing, Beautiful!

You might try making your own lye soap. It is a better cleaning product.

How did they work.

I want to try this but in a small portion

Done this for years and have managed a houseful as well… eight kids with 5 being sweaty boys! So worth the savings for our tight budget and I don’t have all the excess plastics or gummy pods that plug up drains!

I love “ old lady dog “💕🫶🏾

I use my Cuisinart to grate the soap. Then to blend the soap in batches with the washing soda and borax in batches. NOTE..... I did use it to pulverize scent beads for a batch of powder detergent for our daughter and I NOW am the proud owner of TWO bowls for the Cuisinart because it hung on to the scent VERY STRONGLY. I use the soap, one bar, 4 cups washing soda and 1 cup Borax and 1 cup BAKING SODA.....split that batch and add a container of dollar store " Oxygen bleach" to half of the batch.....That way you have some soap WITH the Oxy and some without in case you want to use chlorine bleach. Of note....if you have hard water, add 1 cup of White King WATER SOFTENER ( not fabric softener) to the whole batch. I have yet to play with scents......but my daughter always wants scent beads mixed into hers. For easy mixing, dump into a trash bag and it is easier to tumble.. I need to use essential oils in mine going forward....because, like you, I LOVE LOVE LOVE the niche detergents for their scent...but they are so expensive.... It is a great thing to do and no plastics involved........and as detergents go up in price, this is a huge money saver.

I am so interested in laundry soap that is chemical free, inexpensive and works on stains and brighten whites. How is this recipe on whitening whites

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I just use less detergent and buy it in bulk (from Costco or my grocery store). Most people use too much detergent. I also make sure my loads are full. That’s saving plenty for us! The time to prepare and troubleshoot this homemade solution, the cost of the ingredients, and the risk of deteriorating our washer or our clothes doesn’t seem worth it to me 🤷🏽‍♀️
Also, this is literally chemistry. How do you know the fumes produces while stirring that hot liquid aren’t harmful? Any chemist would have known to wear gloves, glasses, a mask, long sleeves… And how do you ensure it remains chemically stable over time? And doesn’t proliferate bacteria (I mean in the liquid formula)?

I hate grating the zote soap, so I switched to using a liquid soap recipe with castile soap. So much easier & quicker to make, plus - bonus - castile soap comes scented! ❤️

Hi, was wondering where you bought your apron from?

A note for viewers in Europe: Borax was banned in the UK and most of Europe in 2010 as it is an endocrine disrupter. However, there is an item called Borax substitute available in many supermarkets which I still need to do more research on. This video has inspired me to look into more homemade options. Thank you. Ps. For those in the UK washing soda = soda crystals. Used to be 50p per bag now £2.

Could use essential oils to the liquid and make it smell nice?

I've always made the powder one. I bought a cheap food processor for the zote soap. It really helps. I make this for my daughter's family they are a family of 6. I use zote soap , Borax, washing soda , baking soda. It's 2 bars to a whole box of Borax and washing soda and one cup of baking soda. You can also add essential oils or the scent beads if you want more scents. I love the clean smell of the laundry soaps by themselves. Hope this helps everyone. I've been doing this for 6 years

It’s good but the soap ingredient produces scum inside HE laundry machines. This will make towels not absorbent anymore, clothes dingy as well. Lastly, because the scum will create build up in the Maschine, this can break the Maschine sooner? Unfortunately, the machine manufacturers partnered with the detergent companies to force us buy their products. Great video to help others but not sure if this won’t work long term for HE machines. But for hand wash items, this is great.

Great video and great information

I did a 5 gallon laundry soap version that works great. Formula #1: 2 bars of kirks castile soap, 1/2 cup borax, 1 cup super washing soda, 1 cup citric acid, 1/2 cup Epsom salt. Formula#2: Added 30 ml of polysorbate 80 and 30 ml lavender oil to formula 1. Formula#3: Tide plus hygienic clean alone. I stained 3 cloths in 5 separate areas on each cloth with mud, ketchup, , BBQ sauce, mustard and rubbed in blackberries, let the stains dry for 2 days. Formula #2 was only very slightly cleaner of the stains than all 3. Used 1/2 cup of each formula in each laundry load. Polysorbate 80 is a surfactant to make the soap work like a detergent and emulsifies the mix and the essential oils.

I love your videos! I just ordered the vacuum sealing set and it was only $9.99. Great deal, thank you for all you do and just being you. God bless

The Douggar Family shared this liquid laundry soap recipe years ago. I made it for so long. It worked well with our family and the dirt boys would somehow be covered in.

A Mennonite women told me to use Cola (like Pepsi cola soda) for oil and mechanic stains.
Baking soda will get out smells add a scoop in and no more dog smell or cigarette smell.

Vinegar is a good sub for fabric softener and also good to use to clean soap scun in the washing machine.
And For keeping your HE machine parts clean with different soaps.
You can even. Run a cycle of it on its own to clean out so the parts or I also like to use it with my rags or shower curtain
Still looking for a copy cat of the smell beads. I love them!

We add about 1/4 cup of vegetable glycerin too

Why dilute it?? Why not just use less of the soap?? Say you dilute it and use 1 cup per load. Why not leave it as the concentrated version and use 1/2 a cup per load, saving time, space, and of course your arm. Work smarter not harder. Not said to be a b**ch, just always loved that little quote, it's a good one to live by.

Was it a problem melting down the powered and do you have to always use hot water ?

Hey! I ended up chopping the Zote soap into chunks and putting it in my food processor (Ninja) and it got as small as your shreds. You should try that method, it’s easier

I make my own with zote and it melts the best. I cut up 2 bars into chunks and microwave about half a bar in a few chunks at a time. I found if i did more then that, some over cook and some dont. Do smaller amounts and shorter times, a few seconds at a time. It puffs up. I then wait till it cools off. Then repeat with the rest until all are done. Then I put in a blender a little at a time with washing soda. Blend it all into powder. If you don't do it in short spurts, the heat of the blender blades will make it stick to the blades. Do it in short bursts. Once it is all powder, I mix the rest of the ingredients in a 5 gallon bucket. 2 boxes of washing soda, 2 boxes of borax, 2 16 ounce containers of dollar tree oxygen wash powder, 1 box of baking soda. Mix it all up well so it's all incorporated. Half I put into glass containers with lids in my laundry room. The other half I leave in the bucket and add hot water to it and make liquid laundry detergent. I let it sit over night. The next day I stir it up again and add any liquid essential oils to it. 20 drops of orange oil, or lavender oil, or lemon oil or geranium oil or wintergreen. Then I stir it up again to blend those scents in well. I use about half a cup of either dry or liquid for each load. If I am doing my dogs blankets and towels, I put in a cup, use the deep fill option and put in extra rinses. Always comes out clean.

What about softener?

I had to watch this with the sound off while my sick little girl is snoring next to me (only mama will do when they are sick) so if you mentioned this and I didn't catch it, I'm sorry. But, how does this recipe do in hard water? Our water is practically well water.

I’d be careful I heard that the soap builds up in the pipes and such and it will break a washing machine down fast, especially the HE ones.

I just subscribed to your channel since was looking for a simple way to make my own laundry detergent, liquid or powder. Another You tuber said that the Zote (which I bought) hardened in her washer and she showed pictures, maybe it was not diluted enough. Anyhow since you made your own laundry detergent it would have been nice to see if you were happy with the results after washing clothes.