I do a lot of laundry. A lot. I suspect that most of you do too! Wouldn’t it make sense if we looked at finding a way to make doing laundry cheaper? After all, it does eat a chunk of your grocery budget when you do 15,000 loads a week.
OK. That was an intentional exaggeration. Still, it feels like that sometimes.
A few years ago, I searched for ways to make my own laundry detergent. I ruled them out quickly.
Why?
Because I am a lazy frugalista. I love to save a dime, but if it complicates my life too much then I know I will never do it.
Many of the homemade laundry detergent recipes “call” for boiling water and 5 gallon buckets. That is too much for me.
So, imagine my excitement last year, when a friend shared with me her homemade laundry recipe. Let me reiterate, her easy homemade laundry recipe!
I tried it the following week and have been hooked ever since.
I am going to share with you the step by step instructions. I promise you that you will think I am forgetting something. 
1. Collect your 3 ingredients:
- 1 bar of Fels Naptha soap ($.99 found in the laundry aisle)
- 1 cup of borax ($3 per box. Found in the cleaning aisle)
- 1 cup of washing soda ($2.50 per box. Found in the laundry aisle)
2. Hand grate your bar of soap. Grate as fine as possible. (I use a food processor after I hand grate)
3. Mix in 1 cup borax and 1cup washing soda.
That is it. You are done!
Easy peasy I tell ya!
To use the laundry soap you will want to use between 1-2 TBS per load. I write “between” because our load sizes vary. I have very large laundry loads. I used to use 2 TBS, but I decreased it to 1.5 TBS and it still works well. How do I know? I use a very scientific method called the “sniff check”. 
So what is the cost savings ?
To make 1 batch of laundry soap, it will cost you approximately $1.70. You will get between 32-64 loads from one batch (depending on the amount of tablespoons you use). That is $.05 or less per load! Compare that to what you are spending now!
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