Laundry, laundry

We have been experimenting with serious couponing since January and have enjoyed it very much. We have more food in our house than ever, and we have noticed a drop in our monthly grocery bill (although our gasoline bill continues to climb, but that isn't just us).

Anyway, we have gotten some great deals on stuff, but we haven't found any great deals on laundry detergent. We looked online a little bit, and found hundreds of different make-your-own laundry detergent recipes.

We thought we would try it out; this is the recipe we used.

Hot water
1/2 cup Washing Soda
1/2 cup Borax
1/3 bar Soap (grated) (we used fels naptha)
12 drops of orange essential oil.

It made about 2 gallons of laundry detergent. We spent under $10 for enough ingredients to make over 20 gallons of laundry detergent!! Amazing, and it smells so good!!
It looks kinda chunky, but it has been over a week, and our clothes are clean, so I don't really care what it looks like.



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