Laundry Soap and Window Cleaner recipes

Here it is the long awaited laundry soap and glass cleaner recipes from girlfriend Sandy Scott. If you have any questions please contact Sandy. Also, if you have any other "cleaning" recipes please leave them as comments to this post. Thank you and enjoy!





Homemade Laundry Soap

1/3 Bar Fels Naptha soap
½ Cup Washing Soda
½ Cup Borax Powder
2 gallon size bucket

Grate the soap and put it in a sauce pan.
Add 6 Cups hot water and heat it until the soap melts.
Add the Washing Soda and the Borax and stir until it is dissolved.
Remove from heat.
Pour 4 Cups hot water into the bucket.
Add soap mixture and stir.
Add 1 gallon plus 6 Cups of water and stir.
Let the soap sit for about 24 hours and it will gel.
Use ½ cup per load.

A Few Notes About this Laundry Soap
* All ingredients can be found at Hardings. The Washing Soda and Borax are in the laundry soap aisle. The Fels Naptha is on the bottom shelf where the bath soap is.
* You can use your food processor to grate the soap bar. I measure and bag up all the ingredients so I have it ready when I need to make laundry soap.
* I start with 6 cups of boiling water to melt the soap and let it slow boil until all the soaps melt/dissolve. This has given a better consistency.
* The finished soap will not be a solid gel. It will be more of a watery gel that has been described as an “egg noodle soup” look.
* If you want to store the laundry soap in old laundry soap containers, pour it in after making, and before it begins to gel.
* The soap is a low sudsing soap. If you don’t see suds, that is ok. Suds are not what do the cleaning; it is the ingredients in the soap.



Window Cleaner

1 Pint Alcohol (2 Cups)
1 Tablespoons Dishwashing Detergent
2 Tablespoons Ammonia

Pour above ingredients in a gallon jug, top off with distilled water.