Laundry Detergent:
Mix together 1/4 cup Washing Soda, 1/4 cup Borax, 1/4 cup Castile Soap, and 1 gallon water in a container of your choice.
- Washing Soda (different from baking soda) neutralizes and eliminates odors, enhances your laundry soap, and a natural whitener that is safe for colors.
- Borax enhances the power of your soap and is a color safe whitener.
- Castile soap is a natural, non-toxic, multi-purpose vegetable based soap. It's biodegradable, you can get it scented or unscented, and categorized as a disinfectant and will kill 99% of germs.
Have a question about this project?
First of all, you are one very creative DIYer! You have so many ideas and a wonderful imagination. My question is: how can the laundry detergent mixture only cost $5.00? The Borax alone is $5.39 at our big box store. I was going to try to do this once and for me it would have cost more than just buying Tide or any other brand. The only one a bit cheaper from Tide was the store brand. Please tell me what was only $5.00.
Thank you kindly.
You use 1/4 cup of borax. In the box of borax you probably have 10 cups.
nice alternatives for stain removal etc. do you have a mixer for cleaning my HE washing machine? we use those Refresh brand tablets but they are getting to be outrageously expensive.
you can use a cup of salt together with washing. clean the machine
Can I use this in front load washer that uses HE detergents
Yes, e now have an HE front lid washer and it works great.