![]() ![]() ![]() (I'd do two full washer loads in each bathtub load.) Start another load in the washer and add that to the tub. Put the wet, freshly "washed" laundry into the bathtub. If you don't have water softener (which I didn't for my first batch) then hopefully your detergent has water softener in it (mine did) OR just use ½ cup each of washing soda and Borax (you may notice that most of these stripping ingredients are the same as what I used to make detergent.I get the irony).ģ) Start carting lots of laundry up and down the stairs Add ¼ cup washing soda, ¼ cup Borax, and ¼ of water softener (I used some Calgon passed on from my sister). I used this as a way to use up the last of my homemade detergent.įill your bathtub with HOT water, about half full. I quickly figured that out (after a lot of texting with my sister) and got to the beginning of a very long laundry process. It had been at least a few weeks since I read the post about stripping and had pretty much forgotten that any additional steps were needed besides just starting to wash our clothes with the store detergent. On Saturday morning I went to start my laundry. I picked that because I wanted powder detergent as well as being free & clear, and biodegradable. Thanks to Prime, 48 hours later I had some 7th Generation powder detergent on my doorstep (not sponsored, just sharing what we bought!). About two weeks ago we were running super low and I realized laundry day was coming up. ![]() I was starting to run low on homemade detergent and figured I'd use up what we had and then investigate this whole stripping and buying detergent thing. Her chemistry teacher husband had read it and agreed with all the science in the post and so they did the stripping and went back to using store-bought detergent. It was cheaper and fairly easy to make and worked out great.Ī few weeks ago my sister, who also used homemade detergent, sent me a link to this article about how supposedly homemade detergent doesn't get your clothes clean. I've made two different kinds and reported back and have never experienced any problems with it. Other than a bottle of baby detergent that we were given when Luke was born and we used on his clothes for his first year, we've used homemade detergent on all our laundry loads for 4 years, including cloth diapers. I've posted a few times about using homemade laundry detergent, something we've been doing for almost 4 years ( version 1, version 2). ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |