Being down to the last few scoops of commercial powder was just the push I needed.
I bought all the supplies from my local Foodland supermarket.
There are hundreds of recipes out there.
I settled on the one on the Borax container!
1 bar velvet soap 4pk 500g $3.03 - 1 bar 0.75c
1 cup washing soda 1kg $3.15 - 1 cup 0.78c
1 cup borax 500g $3.99 - 1 cup $1.99
Total $3.52 for 600g
1 tbs per load = 0.11c
I grated the soap on a fine greater.
Really easy, I thought this was going to be areal chore.
Mixed it all together and gecided to run it all through the food processor to get a finer crumb.
looks like real washing powder!
I been using it for 3 weeks now and am really happy.
Smells great, I really love the lemon smell of the velvet soap.
Id also like to make my own dishwasher powder and liquid hand soap.
Nice work! Yeah I always thought the soap grating would be hard too. Dishwasher powder would be awesome. (Except Charlie fell on the door of ours and it requires Major Repairs, boo.)
ReplyDeleteMust try it one day!
ReplyDeleteI may just give this a try ...you make it sound so easy. xx
ReplyDeleteDoes it get all the stains out?
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