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Laundry Soap

List of Ingredients





1/3 bar Fels Naptha grated
1/2 cup washing soda
1/2 cup borax powder


Recipe




Put the grated Fels Naptha in a large pan with 3 pints of water - heat - stir to dissolve. When dissolved stir in the 1/2 cup of washing soda - then the 1/2 cup of Borax [remember 20 mule team borax - upper shelf on laundry isle in grocery stores] This will all thicken and look like honey - remove from heat. In a 5 gallon bucket put 1 quart of hot water. Next and your honey looking soap. stir! Then fill the bucket with about 2 gal. cold water. Stir till well blended.
Let this set till it gels - up to 24 hours. Use 1/2 cup for each load.
Costs about ten cents per load.

Now, for soft water, you may have to add more cold water or it could become too thick. For harder water, use less. Just keep track of it to see how thick it gets.