4 cups water
1 bar soap--your choice
3 gallons hot water
1 cup Arm and Hammer Washing Soda
1/2 Borax
1 five gallon bucket
In a sauce pan, heat 4 cups water just before boiling. DO NOT BOIL.
Shave your bar of soap into the sauce pan and stir until completely melted. **I found Ivory soap lightly scented with lavender.
Pour 3 gallons of hot water into your five gallon bucket. Add the 4 cups of soap water and stir for a minute or two.
Now, add the Washing Soda and stir for a minute or two.
Now, add the Borax and stir for a minute or two.
Let this bucket cool overnight. You'll end up with a gelatinous solution, slightly lighter than the bar of soap you chose. Ours is a clear-white.
Use 1 cup of this laundry soap per load of laundry.
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I'm SO sure you know this and it may not even apply to you at all with your kind of cloth diapers, but do you use this with your cloth diapers? Just curious because we can't use detergent that has soap in it...or dyes, brighteners, whiteners, perfumes, or enzymes. :) Quite a list and impossible to find here. So, we had to ship out for it. Even to make our own detergent that would be sufficient we would have to ship off for the ingredients, so we just got some...Charlie's to be specific. Anyhoo, I was just curious and thought I'd tell you that. Let me know...you might not even have to worry about that with the kind of diapers you use.
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