My FRUGAL- DIY Laundry Detergent for less than $1 per person per month
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- So I have been making my DIY Laundry Detergent for years. I have altered my recipe through the years. In this recipe I use the following:
4 Pound box of Baking Soda
Super Washing Soda
Borax
2 boxes of shredded Zote (500g)
1.3 pound Oxiclean
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I added 1lb 12 oz OUT White Bright
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(disclaimer: not sure how this will turn out yet!)
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FYI, I made this and LOVE it! I've been using a diy liquid detergent for years and thought I would try this out and wow. just wow. I'm never going back to the liquid detergent ever again! Thanks Trish!!
+Homeschool For Two me either! This is so much better!
I make the same but I mix the zone flakes with some baking soda in my ninja mixer (makes the soap into a powder) Then mix it all in the big container. Works in HE measuring basket, no gumming up of the machine. Going on 3 years with no issues. Love the stuff.
Save more: I found out that two mini buckets of Awesome (DT knock off of oxyclean) for 2 dollars at dollar tree makes it even more affordable.
I've made this and love it! I've added the whitener and it works great on my hubby's work shirts. ..you should see the crazy materials he comes home covered in! (construction )
one thing I also like to add is with a scented or unscented ebson salt. it's way cheaper then buying those fragrance boosters (not that ZOTE doesn't already small nice, I just like the scent of lavender). plus the ebson salt helps soften hard water.
I recently made liquid detergent for the first time. only been using it for a few days. it might take a long time to make, but I really like it better than the dry version. why? because I only use ONE bar of ZOTE ,ONE cup of BORAX and ONE cup of Arm & Hammer washing soda and it makes 5 gallons! still only use 2 tablespoons per load. that's less than $5 for 5 gallons of laundry soap! BONUS : it can also be used for dish soap and works great for cleaning floors and stove tops!
I have to say, I really appreciate all the amazing uses for ZOTE!!
thanks for your quick video, I think my reply takes longer to read! Hahaha
It is not recommended to use Epsom salt in washing machines, as it's magnesium which makes your water into hard water, which everyone has hard water to some extent - people with wells typically have really hard water, while city folks don't have it as bad, but adding Epsom salt to the washer is going to make city water like well water and well water even harder than it already is, this is not going to soften clothes what so ever Which apparently is the new thing online people making their own fabric softeners and laundry boosters with Epsom salt thinking it's going to soften their clothes when they're doing the opposite in reality
Kelli
Right! There are a lot of clueless housewives online passing along erroneous information.
Kelli
Hardness depends on where the water is sourced. It’s harder mid continent acs softer sling the E and W coasts.
I have made the liquid laundry soap and it works well, but is a lot more trouble and time consuming. I have been making the powder for a couple of years. My recipe is similar and it lasts the 2 of us about a year. So under $20 for a year! that is a deal.
I'm on my second batch of laundry detergent. First batch lasted me over a year I just made a second batch with a different recipe. I love to make the detergent. So calming.
I use a very similar one, and I love it! Another plus is that I never have that sour smell in my front loader that I used to get ! It is awesome!11
I do one bar of Zote, one cup of borax and A&H Soda. thumbs up
I make my own laundry detergent now as well and I am so glad that I do! I will never ever buy laundry detergent again. I use a recipe that I got from janie pendleton and it 3 cups borax, 3 cups washing soda, I only use a cup of oxi clean, and a cup of baking soda also I make both powder and liquid because honestly I like making it. lol but when I make powder version I also add scent boosters only half of one though.
Baking soda is just a filler.
I love making dry laundry same way I just add also cheep Mexican laundry powders too it's smells better then gain and cleans all my stuff and makes my dingy whites white again especially if I soak them first
I add the Pyrex crystals to mine and it's mAkes the clothes smell better longer
Christine Jewell I use the liquid Pyrex I love the smell I hope I'm not ruining ot
its purex not pyrex
I once made liquid using a 5 gallon pickle bucket... Not realizing I would have batch of pickle scented soap! I washed and washed that darn pickle bucket out too! Lesson learned :)
+Heidi Walbourn , ok that is FUNNY!
🤗😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤗
I used a large (gallon size) glass pickle jar but i let it sit full of baking soda & vinegar water overnight to kill the smell. (It works for coffee as well) i think it must be the difference between plastic & glass. I reuse a lot of household jars & such but i buy fewer 'new' products now so i have been trying to get innovative. Most of the cleaners in spray bottles already have strong scent so as long as it is cleaner i don't worry too much about that- just don't mistakenly reuse the bleach for the ammonia!
(Or vice versa)
The ones i like best are the 1 gallon ice cream pail (plastic, but with lid & handle) for the dry laundry powder. & the 2 pound potato salad container with lid. Not too pretty but they get the job done & keep it sealed well. The potato salad one had a particularly strong smell at first but it has been used for so many things over the years that it soon lost that.
Yes I also make this same laundry detergent it works well
Hi. Amanda from The Fundamental Home loves you. Love your videos. I've been making my own liquid laundry soap for years. I love it.
Your formula is very similar to mine. I even use the same container to mix everything up. :-)
I wonder if the flake box of Zote is less per weight because the flakes are pretty dry compared to the bar
So do you mean that the flakes have less water? I have both and now I think that's the case. 500 GM flakes = 800 GM bar style. Because water is removed from the flakes.
I was thinking that, too.
A sweet subbie sne us some Zote soap to try in our laundry soap and I really like it. It smells better than Fels Naptha. I have never seen those flakes and oh my gosh I hope I can find them
Mexicana stores carry the Zote
99 cent store too
When I started out I made granulated. But I soon realized I get more bang for my buck doing liquid. I have a five gallon bucket full of the powder. When my liquid runs out I use from that mixture to make more. I use 2.5 cups to make 5 gallons. I tweaked genius in exiles recipe. I'm not sure when it will actually run out because I keep adding shredded up bar soap ends because I hate to waste them
+Judy Herman nice! !!
Can you post a video how to make liquid ?
I really like this woman. So much personality. Easy on the eyes too. Thanks for the recipe.
I will have to check out Zote.
I make my own liquid laundry detergent but I also really like your powdered version
How did it turn out for the whites, with the white brightener?
Hope to make this SOON Trish........... Thanks for SHARING, Much LOVE from Houston TEXAS!!!
I use Ivory Soap. I have tried making both. I prefer the powder.
I'm still having problems with smell on some of my son's clothes. I've mixed some with the cheap powder laundry detergent and works for the most part.
I'm tired of washing his clothes 4X to get them clean, mostly at laundromats. It's not cheap.
I love jabon ZOTE, I use it to wash some cloths by hand, but I'm gonna have to try this for the rest of my cloths!!
For about 10 years I made the dry mix with Felsnaptha, washing soda, and borax. But, sometimes m clothes would get bleached like spots. So this last year I make liquid with 1 bar of Zote, borax 1/2 box, and liquid oxyclean (1/2 bottle). It makes 5 gallons and lasts about five months for a family of nine. I also use abou 1/8th a cup and put vinegar in the rinse. My clothes are super soft and smell great! Thank you Trish, for all your great videos. Super helpful and encouraging!
Can you send me your liquid recipe or let me know where I can get it
I would like yo know whete you hit the plastic container and how big is it
Anna Greene
Oxiclean releases hydrogen peroxide in water. It decomposes thereafter you water and oxygen. Your liquid concoction had no bleaching capability.
Anna Greene
Do you realize how dilute that is? 14 oz of soap in 5 gal is only 0.175 oz of soap/cup of your concoction. 1/8 cup per load = .02 oz of soap/load. That’s 1/4 the weight of a dime! Or less than half the weight of a paper clip! Use plain water instead!!!!
Thanks for posting! I have never tried making my own, but you make it look so easy I just may have to!
I send Zote with my kids to camp! They wash there own clothes. Love your channel!
Do you just have them suds up the bar with the clothes to hand wash?
How did the White Brite work out? I've been interested in adding something similar.
I do a very similar recipe. I grate my own Zote and let it dry on a cookie sheet for a day or two. I think the dry weight is likely very close to that of one box. I mix it by hand and process the entire mixture in a food processor a cup or two at a time. I then add to bucket and mix one more time. Even with the extra steps I take I have months worth of laundry detergent in about 10 minutes. Smells great and cleans 🧼 great too.
You should ass like unstabbales or some type in booster to make the fragrance smell better
Very interesting!! I'm looking forward to the follow up about the brightener addition. I've made a liquid detergent for the past 8 years and I am getting tired of cooking it every time I need a new batch. I'm inspired now to try this instead 😃👍✨
+322msg when I used to cook up the liquid years ago, I always made a mess. I am not sure if the brighter is making them brighter, but they smell like nothing, and in my book that says CLEAN. We don't really do smells and there is no lingering product smells. Not that there is ever a lot anyways. Also the feel of the clothes is cleaner. But I am not sure if it is really a subconscious thing in my head, probably a statistic electric charge from the position of my Mohawk hair picking up, that the feel is softer. Hahaha, I am not sure I answered you. But I will keep adding it, I think it is a great addition to the recipe. Btw, I have been in laundry de-Nile, you know like a vacation home on the river of de-Nile, on getting laundry done, so I am on laud 9 today.
+Just Sew Trish Lol!! You are a riot. I like how you worked that hair joke into your reply. 👍🎉 And that did answer my question, thank you 😀
I forgot to say...I sort of cheat. I use the cheese grater attachment to my old kitchen aid to grate the soap and a paint mixer attachment to a drill to mix it! Lol. Lazy mom's way but makes it go much quicker.
I need to try this! This would probably last my family a year.
the problem with the zote is I use cold water to wash clothes so I really don't know confidently if your zote will melt into cold water wash.
Hey beautiful tomorrow will be my first time making my own soap and washing powder I have everything thing you shown other than the last item but I also have baking soda and brite color stain from the Dollar Tree
GREAT INFO!
Do u know if its safe or good for people with sensitive skin?
This is cool! I’ve never even thought of making laundry detergent. (We’re a family of 6) How big are the boxes of washing soda & borax?
Hi at work. Can't stay, watch later.
i make one similar but I do a liquid detergent. I may have to try this because I don't have to let it sit overnight. 😃. fyi I like the smell of Felps Naptha! lol. but it can be strong. 😉😉
I tried making this recipe once but my clothes did not smell clean at all I wasn’t even sure they were coming out clean I ended up trashing it I did not put Oxsee clean in it though it just was the basic arm Zotz borax washing soda now I saw somebody use the result flakes and they did not seem to dissolve in water and I always use Coldwater arm so what temperature water to use I’m tempted to try it again I just don’t know what I possibly did wrong I was very careful although I think I use NAFTA the first time
I ended up changing to an enzyme based detergent.
You should think about adding the purex crystals
Holy Cow!!!! I'm sorry!!! I didn't even realize that was what she was doing!!!! I'm sorry!!! Thank you for filling me in so I know what's going on!!! XOXO!
+Kari Thomason no worries. It wasn't your fault.
Do was with cold water? One person said only uses warm or hot.
great timing. I have to make laundry soap today among dishes, caning pie filling and making food for this weekend. so my recipe is similar. I use zote too. to me it cleans better. washing soda, borax and baking soda. the oxy-clean really doesn't work for me but let me know about the brightener because our water is hard and not sure if the water heater is working correctly filtering so our clothes don't whiten as they should. any suggestions? I do put 2cups of borax and washing soda to half bar of zote.
Does anyone know how the white bright worked out? I don't see any comments on it.
:) I was just getting ready to put up a laundry detergent video! I will tag yours since your recipe is different. Great minds think alike :)
Thank you so much. My own came out good. Were did you get the flakes from
I was wondering do you make a fabric sofener also.
I just made my first Zote soap laundry detergent I made liquid
How did it turn out...it actually put stains in my clothes I had to switch to powder.
Love it
Do you have hard water? If you do that might be what's causing your clothes to come out dingy. I like to make tabs.
i have to keep our soap senitive free. do know if the white brite is sesnitieve free
Love
my gma lost her fingertips in zote grating soap accident, it was a awful tragedy...
does anyone know how this works with ppl with sensitivity
+brette marcum I think it works good. Email me your address and I will mail you enough for 2 loads and you can test itnout. Justsewtrish @ gmail. Com
brette marcum Did it work out for you??
I make laundry soap as well, is your recipe safe to use on bright and dark colors?
I have had no problem . We are having a moisture problem in our home and it wasnt pulling the mildew smell out. So I had to switch to detergent from the store.
+Just Sew Trish I saw several recipes that they add two bottles of sent crystals, maybe that would help with the smell
My hubby used on of my large bath towels outside and it smelled like gasoline. Well I loaded the washer with detergent and filled the fabric softener with vinegar. Well to my delight my towels were soft and smell good. I have been using All and Gain store bought detergent with Downy fabric softener and my hubby's t-shirt and underwear smelled like mildew until I changed to vinegar.
does this make your clothes lighter. also using the bottle of white out can you use it on darks and colors?
Also is it safe for HE washers
I have, but you put it in with the clothes not in the tray
Wow, looks easy and looks like it will clean better than the recipe I had. I quit making mine because it just wasnt cleaning like I wanted and I am not that picky. So, next time I buy laundry stuff I am buying these engredients and I cant wait to know if that last bottle of stuff really works. And do you have a child that justikes to wipe everything on her shirt and have terrible stains from it? I have town clothes that have been ruined because my daughter wipes food on her shirts. I think with age she has gotten better. But the shirts that have been ruined. Ugh!
+Jessica Abel every day times 6. And worst I will catch myself doing it to my pants. I actually use felt naphtha bar as a stain remover. I wet the end of the bar and rub it in. BUT, here is what I noticed, the walmart shorts gold stains like nobody's business. The material holds a stain that I just can't get rid of, so most of those become play clothes.
+Jessica Abel every day times 6. And worst I will catch myself doing it to my pants. I actually use felt naphtha bar as a stain remover. I wet the end of the bar and rub it in. BUT, here is what I noticed, the walmart shorts gold stains like nobody's business. The material holds a stain that I just can't get rid of, so most of those become play clothes.
+Jessica Abel every day times 6. And worst I will catch myself doing it to my pants. I actually use felt naphtha bar as a stain remover. I wet the end of the bar and rub it in. BUT, here is what I noticed, the walmart shorts gold stains like nobody's business. The material holds a stain that I just can't get rid of, so most of those become play clothes.
+Jessica Abel every day times 6. And worst I will catch myself doing it to my pants. I actually use felt naphtha bar as a stain remover. I wet the end of the bar and rub it in. BUT, here is what I noticed, the walmart shorts gold stains like nobody's business. The material holds a stain that I just can't get rid of, so most of those become play clothes.
+Jessica Abel every day times 6. And worst I will catch myself doing it to my pants. I actually use felt naphtha bar as a stain remover. I wet the end of the bar and rub it in. BUT, here is what I noticed, the walmart shorts gold stains like nobody's business. The material holds a stain that I just can't get rid of, so most of those become play clothes.
Why don't you just use the Zote?
Oxyclean is super washing soda... check the ingredients for both its the same
It’s about 50% sodium percarbonate, which releases hydrogen peroxide in water. The balance is sodium carbonate.
Love it!
How much soap is in your 1/8 cup scoop? It looks like based on soap this mixture is very dilute.
Haven't Ever made my own but going to start have heard nothing but good things plus a lot cheaper than store bought
right!
Do you have a Baby safe DIY or does this recipe work as well for babies?
I have used this, but now I prefer an enzyme base detergent.
I use white zote for infant and baby clothes. No added smell or anything just natural. Pink zote smells like very lite flowers
Now those watching this video, the Out white product can not be mix with other products except for laundry detergent.
oh, this is so good to know. thank you.
lafeil
It’s like Oxiclean so can be mixed. It contains sodium percarbonate, which releases hydrogen peroxide in water.
In the good old days they washed their clothes in urine. The one of a preacher was considered best.
+Wolf Plato bwahahahaha
What old days was that? Because soap recipes go back tens of thousands of years. Urine was one of the things that they were trying to remove.
bedhead
That is pretty much my recipe.
She doesn’t use it anymore.
Baking soda does nothing to make your concoction “better”. It’s just partially neutralized washing soda. It’s not an effective water softener. It’s just a filler as you use it. Omit it and save $.
This isn’t a detergent because the only surfactant is bar soap.
That white bright product sounds like it contains sodium percarbonate, the same active ingredient as in Oxiclean.