Homemade Laundry Soap

It was about this time last year when I first experimented with a recipe I found on Pinterest for Homemade Laundry Soap. Cost about $20 to make, lasted our family an entire year.  That's right! 1 year's supply of laundry soap for $20!!!!!! That is with 4 weeks of summer camp, 2 weeks in India (for Jake), and a move in between, which all adds up to lots of laundry! I finally ran out of Dreft for Landry from his baby showers, so about 4 months ago, I started washing all his clothes in it as well. Well, we have about a month's supply left, and I am fixing to make up our next batch. I thought I would post the recipe again, in case any of you were interested in trying it out, or have heard some about it, but have been hesitant to try it.

I am not sure if it's the oxy clean or what, but this detergent has gotten out stains better than any store bought detergent I ever used before.

We have a top loader washer, but in reading the comments on the recipe's blog, many people with HE front loaders have used this just fine as well! They just put it directly into the drum instead of the dispenser, and it works well according to their comments!

Happy (cheap) washing!

1 4 lb 12 oz box Borax (2.15 kg or 76 oz) found in the detergent isle

1 4 lb box Arm & Hammer Baking Soda (1.81 kg) found in the cooking isle

1  box Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda 55 oz (3 lb 7 oz) found in the detergent isle

3 bars of Fels-Naptha soap, found in the detergent isle 

2 small containers of Oxy Clean or store brand Oxy Clean (try to get about 3.5 lbs total (1.58 kg)) found in the detergent isle.

(this is optional, I added it to mine because the lady suggested to do so if you have messy kids! )