Sorry I took so long to post...It was my weekend to take care of the greenhouse...I will enter these here and there as there are so many of them...really anyone can research ways to do these things, it is just time consuming.
Liquid Laundry Soap about $5 for a 5 Gallon Pail...320 loads @ 1/4 cup per load ( 1/2 cup if really dirty) Lasts me about 2 years or more for 2 adults... if High Efficiency Washer use 1 TBSP per load = about 1140 loads
.Grate (like cheese) 2 bars of Ivory Soap (Fels Naptha soap bars if able to find it from the USA) and put it in a pot with 4 cups of water
.Cook it over MED Heat until melted (do not boil) ...takes about 20 minutes...stir occasionally but go do something else while waiting for it to melt
.Fill a 5 Gallon Bucket 1/2 full of HOT water from the bathtub (it is the easiest way)
.When soap is all melted add it to the bucket with 1/2 cup Borax & 1/2 cup Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda (get mine and the 5 gallon pail at Home Harware store downtown Brooks)
. Fill the bucket with hot tap water and stir with a yard stick or handle of a hockey stick...lol...put lid on and leave overnight.
. Sometime the next day/afternoon is fine...get the big thing you will stir with and give it a good stir(it gels overnight).
.Either you can pour into other WIDE MOUTH containers to use as you need (you can shake them easily if soap seperates between uses) or just leave the bucket/hockey stick by the washing machine for easy use...I keep an old measuring cup that came with an old purchased box of tide on the lid for measuring.
* This soap is NOT SUDSY...Laurel Sulfate and other ingredients in all the products makes bubbles...people think bubbles means CLEAN, it does not...the ingredients used in all the recipes I'll post make your clothes, body, teeth, hair etc clean...lose the bubbles means clean thought.
I love this soap...it doesn't leave a residue on my clothing...I hang my clothes on the line to dry except in winter ( & I should then too) and noticed other powders do.
I had eczema on the bottoms of my feet for the last 5 years and for the first 2 years they were open bleeding weeping wounds that would not heal and took away my ability to walk, I also stopped smoking during that time and between that and not being able to walk I gained 100 pounds...Dr's would only give me steroid creams for my feet that thinned the skin more so each step I took would cut my feet open and they would bleed and felt like I was walking on broken glass...I decided to not go to the doctor anymore and it has taken me 2 more years to heal myself by changing my body to an alkaline system instead of an acidic one (disease can not live in an alkaline enviroment) and by ceasing to use anything with harsh chemicals in it...so that is why I initially started making my own products..I am able to walk again but am still working on the weight loss issue...I will get there!!!! I know you will love this soap & love taking care of your families needs by yourself!
Thank you! Excellent!
Absolutely amazing. Thanks so much for taking the time to post this. I look forward to other similar posts too. I am glad you have seen the light and are taking the steps necessary to let your body heal itself. I am sure your weight will melt away now that you are mobile and your metabolism speeds itself up. Good luck with that and thanks again.
You are very welcome!
lgsbrooks,
Thanks for this post!
Mountainman.
You are welcome gc_mountainman!
I use Tide, because it's the only brand that makes me the least itchy. I also use Ivory soap - and despite it drying my skin out quite a bit, it's one of the very few soaps that give me a slight rash. I believe it's the excessive perfumes in most soaps. I have this thing against heavy perfumes.
I'm quite intrigued at using this soap, as I said I have a lot of Ivory in the house. I'm wondering though...how does it do against sweat soaked clothes (shirts specifically). I mean, I sweat a ton. When I work outside, I tend to get crazy with it and I literally sweat rivers onto my shirts. And, it causes my shirts to not last as long as I like. It's like they break down or something. I can wear two exact shirts, one for working outside and one for everyday use...and the one that gets the most sweat lasts half as long as the other.
What do you think? I have no doubt it will clean the clothes, but do you think it might be easier on them then Tide?
Runs With Scissors
Runs With Scissors
I use Tide, because it's the only brand that makes me the least itchy. I also use Ivory soap - and despite it drying my skin out quite a bit, it's one of the very few soaps that give me a slight rash. I believe it's the excessive perfumes in most soaps. I have this thing against heavy perfumes.
I'm quite intrigued at using this soap, as I said I have a lot of Ivory in the house. I'm wondering though...how does it do against sweat soaked clothes (shirts specifically). I mean, I sweat a ton. When I work outside, I tend to get crazy with it and I literally sweat rivers onto my shirts. And, it causes my shirts to not last as long as I like. It's like they break down or something. I can wear two exact shirts, one for working outside and one for everyday use...and the one that gets the most sweat lasts half as long as the other.
What do you think? I have no doubt it will clean the clothes, but do you think it might be easier on them then Tide?Runs With Scissors
Your name made me giggle! lol
Use the purest soap you can find if Ivory is not going to work for you, there is olive oil/castile soap (found it at the dollor store), fels naptha (USA brand I have been unable to get) ...there are also some cures for excessive sweating such as drinking lots of home made tomato juice, or taking honey with apple cider vinegar a few times a day that takes a week or so to kick in...I make my own apple cider vinegar by saving apple peel & cores in a ziplock bag in the freezer until I have enough for a mason jar...then when you do fill the quart size mason jar with them and fill with water. Put a small piece of plastic or something cut to fit inside the jar on top of the apples and place a jam size jar on it (this holds the apples down) cover with a towel and leave it for 48 hours. There should be bubbles on top when you go back to check on it then. Take the jam jar & plastic circle out and strain off the liquid into a quart size jar and throw the peels and core away.Cover the quart jar with cheese cloth and screw the outside lid on (not the flat lid) Leave it in your cupboard for a month. Then it is ready.
Also put 1/2 cup of baking soda in your washing machine while the water is filling but before you put the clothes in as a softener/detoxifier for your clothes. The best thing to use as a fabric softener in the dryer is to put 2 cups of warer and 2 cups of vinegar in a mason jar...dip a sponge into it and wring it out and throw the sponge in the dryer with your clothes. Hope it helps!
I have started a new page called Homemade recipes and supplies and will post other items there