How to Make All Natural Laundry Soap

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Locate a large bucket to hold your ingredients and place it in well-ventilated room or outside.

   The cleaning ingredients in your homemade laundry soap are non-toxic but the dust in the powders can irritate sinuses.
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   Step 2: Measure 2 cups (227 g) of washing soda into the bucket.

   Washing soda is a high-alkaline, powdered cleaning agent made from sodium carbonate that works similarly to baking soda by allowing you to cut grease, absorb oil spills and perform heavy cleaning jobs. , Borax is a cleaning powder that kills bacteria, stabilizes the alkalinity of the washing soda and cleans clothes by releasing hydrogen peroxide as it mixes with water. , The bar of laundry soap you choose can be as simple as a generic bar of body soap manufactured for human use or it can also be a bar of laundry soap made specifically to spot-clean clean clothes.
   
   Allow several minutes to grate the soap by hand.
   
   If you're in a big hurry you can save time by cutting the soap into chunks and tossing it into your food processor. , Pour into a recycled laundry soap container. , Add 1/3 cup (79 ml) of the mixture into a full load of wash.
   
   To ensure the mix is well-agitated into the cleaning water, wait until your washing machine is about halfway full of water before adding your clothes to the soapy load.
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   Step 3: Measure 2 cups (227 g) of borax laundry booster into the same bucket.

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   Step 4: Grate one bar of soap into the powdered mixture.

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   Step 5: Blend the ingredients together using a large spoon

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   Step 6: paint stir stick or your gloved hand.

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   Step 7: Test your new soap by washing a load of clothes.

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