Homemade Laundry Liquid

Laundry Liquid

1 cup of Homemade Soap grated or 1 cup Lux Flakes

1/2 cup Borax

1/2 cup Washing Soda (fine not like rock salt)

Water

Saucepan

Wooden spoon 

10 litre bucket 

1. Add ingredients to 1 1/2 litres of water in a saucepan.

2. Put it on a gentle heat and stir until ingredients dissolved then remove from heat.

3. Pour melted ingredients into a bucket. Fill bucket with 8 litres of cold water. Stir and leave for 24 hours. 

4. Bucket will be full of gel with some floating bits. Use a electric mixing stick to dissolve floating bits if you like.

5. Pour into labeled containers to store or well washed milk containers. Leave some space in the container as you need to gently shake before you use. Store out of reach of children.  

10 litres of Cold Power laundry liquid from Woolworths is $70 ($6.99 per litre)
10 litres of homemade laundry liquid is $1.75!!

I love that my clothes are clean, don't smell chemically and don't make my skin itch!

To use: 

Add 1/4 of a cup to machine. If really dirty load add a little more. It works great in cold wash.

I use vinegar in the rinse cycle as a softener and to remove any odours.