I make my own washing powder. I just had to do another batch so I thought I would document it just in case anyone is interested.
I grate 4 bars of Sunlight Soap.....
Add one tub of Borax...
And two cups of washing soda.
I have been using this for a while now and my main motivation was to cut out the chemicals and who knows what else is in the bought laundry powders.
But in the interest of budgeting I decided to document how many washes I get from my batch of washing powder. The last batch I got 69 washes from it.
When you do the maths.... The cost of the three ingredients is a total of $7.84 which means that each wash costs me $0.11 in washing powder. Pretty good hey.
I use Sunlight Soap but I have a box of generic laundry soap in there to give a try. If this soap still does the job - and the test is definitely the pooey nappies and my husbands socks - then that will cut the cost of each wash down to $0.09 per wash.
And another positive is you get good biceps from grating the soap bars!
2 comments:
I have been wondering about making my own laundry powder for a while now. Thanks for this post. I will def give it a try!!!
this is great...i am going to give it ago. i love the idea of no chemicals with little ones. hope you are having a great week Maree.
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