Stop Buying Laundry Detergent — This $6 Recipe Lasts a Year ($0.02 a Load)

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Pick up that jug of laundry detergent by your machine and look at what you paid — twenty, twenty-five dollars. Here is what the company would rather you not think about: most of what you carried home is water, dyed blue, with a little soap and a strong perfume mixed in. You paid to ship water across the country in a plastic jug, and you will pay again next month when it runs out.
We have never bought that blue water in the history of this house. My wife makes our wash soap from three simple things off the low shelf at any grocery store, for about six dollars, and one batch lasts our family the better part of a year.
In this video I give you the exact recipe — washing soda, borax, and a bar of plain soap — show you how to make a whole bucket of gel in about twenty minutes, and tell you honestly what it does well and what it does not. I will not pretend it beats every detergent at everything. I also show you the one trick with white vinegar that makes it work right in hard water, which is the thing most folks are never told and the reason some people try this and give up.
A word of honesty: this is gentle and wonderful for everyday dirt and for sensitive skin, but you spot-treat the tough stains, and if you have a high-efficiency machine, use less and check your machine's book first. Keep the borax up away from little ones — it is fine for washing but not for eating.
Tell me in the comments — do you have hard water where you live, and have you ever made your own wash soap? If you have a grandmother's recipe, I want to hear it. I read every one.
Next time: how my wife makes the bar soap itself, from scratch, the old way. Subscribe so you do not miss it.
Walk past the blue water, make your own, and remember — the people who built this country with their hands knew things we are only just starting to remember.

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