Vegetarian soap question

January 8, 2009

Hi Steph,

I got this last week from another group I'm in. I haven't tried it and

am not familiar with the products so I can't vouch for them being

vegetarian. I thought it was interesting and plan on making it.

Hope it helps,

Christy

HOMEMADE LAUNDRY DETERGENT

I Got This From A Friend and it works great :-) Pat

>I've been experimenting with making lots of cleaning supplies at home,

but this one is by far the craziest, and the most successful.

Basically, I made a giant bucket of slime that works incredibly well as

laundry detergent at a cost of about three cents a load. For

comparison's sake, a jumbo container of Tide at Amazon.com costs $28.99

for 96 loads, or a cost of $0.30 a load. Thus, with each load of this

stuff, I'm saving more than a quarter. Even better I got to make a

giant bucket of slime in the kitchen and my wife approved of it.Here's

what you need:1 bar of soap (whatever kind you like) I used Lever 2000

because we have tons of bars of it from a case we bought a while back)1

box of washing soda (look for it in the laundry detergent aisle at your

local department store, it comes in an Arm & Hammer box and will

contain enough for six batches of this stuff)1 box of borax (this is

not necessary, but I've found it really kicks the cleaning up a notch

one box of borax will contain more than enough for tons of batches of

this homemade detergent if you decide to use this, be careful)A five

gallon bucket with a lid (or a bucket that will hold more than 15

liters ask around these aren't too tough to acquire)Three gallons of

tap waterA big spoon to stir the mixture withA measuring cupA knifeStep

One: Put about four cups of water into a pan on your stove and turn the

heat up on high until it's almost boiling. While you're waiting, whip

out a knife and start shaving strips off of the bar of soap into the

water, whittling it down. Keep the heat below a boil and keep shaving

the soap. Eventually, you'll shave up the whole bar, then stir the hot

water until the soap is dissolved and you have some highly soapy

water.Step Two: Put three gallons of hot water (11 liters or so) into

the five gallon bucket the easiest way is to fill up three gallon milk

jugs worth of it. Then mix in the hot soapy water from step one, stir

it for a while, then add a cup of the washing soda. Keep stirring it

for another minute or two, then add a half cup of borax if you are

using borax. Stir for another couple of minutes, then let the stuff sit

overnight to cool.And you're done. When you wake up in the morning,

you'll have a bucket of gelatinous slime that's a paler shade of the

soap that you used (in our case, it's a very pale greenish blue). One

measuring cup full of this slime will be roughly what you need to do a

load of laundry and the ingredients are basically the same as laundry

detergent. Thus, out of three gallons, you'll get about 48 loads of

laundry. If you do this six times, you'll have used six bars of soap

($0.99 each), one box of washing soda ($2.49 at our store), and about

half a box of borax ($2.49 at our store, so $1.25) and make 288 loads

of laundry. This comes up to a cost of right around three cents a

gallon, or a savings of$70.

>

, " mrswalp29 " <mrswalp29

wrote:

>

> I would like to make my own laundry soap not only to save money and

> the enviroment, but for my son with sensitive skin, in a green group

I

> am in they recommened Fels Naptha Laundry Bar Soap, but after reading

> on-line about it they use animal fat. It even said they use it from

the

> retired police horses, unusable cattle etc. True or not I don't know.

> My question is does anyone know of a vegetarian soap that could be

> used? I have never made homemade laundry solution and I worry that

any

> old soap will damage our clothes.

> Steph

>

January 8, 2009

Christy

yeah that is the group I am in also and since I can't use the soap they

recommend because of the scent another one was recommended but it is not veggie

friendly, although it is really cheap and had excellent reviews.

Steph

--- On Thu, 1/8/09, Christy <chenoadanu wrote:

Christy <chenoadanu

Re: Vegetarian soap question

Thursday, January 8, 2009, 4:08 PM