Making Liquid Laundry Soap - How to

We finally ran out of laundry detergent and figured we'd try our hand at making our own liquid laundry soap with washing soda, borax, and a bar of Dr. Bronners castile soap. After a few loads of laundry we are really pleased with the results and think this is both a great savings and an easy to make, lower chemical soap than we could buy at the store. The recipe we are using is from wellnessmama.com.

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As for costs, here is our breakdown (prices may range in your area).

Washing soda - $3.00 – 7.8 cups per box and = $0.38/cup
Borax - $4.17 - 9 cups per box = $0.46/cup
Dr. Bronners $4.50 (fels-naptha soap is another alternative, costing about $1/bar and can make this even cheaper!)

Cost breakdown for this batch (approximations where relavent)
$5.34 is the cost for this 5 gallon batch
80 cups in 5 gallons = $0.08 per load using 1 cup
160 – ½ cups in 5 gallons = $0.05 per load using ½ cups

Here is the wellnessmama.com link http://wellnessmama.com/462/homemade-laundry-detergent/

Intro music and background music sourced from both my brother-in-law, Trey Harris and the Youtube audio library. Credits are as follows:

Intro Music: Trey Harris

Background song:
Locally Sourced by Jason Farnham