Homemade laundry soap recipe as requested.

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Homemade Laundry Soap Bar of Ivory Soap (plain, pure soap, to fragrance, etc.) 1 Cup Washing Soda (not baking soda)

Fill a large bucket or container with hot tap water. (I use a 3 gallon bucket you get from wal-mart to wash cars with} . Set aside. Grate bar of soap into a sauce pan. Add water just to over. Heat, stirring constantly, until soap is dissolved. Add soap/water mixture to the hot water in the bucket. Stir to combine. Then (do not reverse this order) add 1 cup of Washing Soda and stir. As this cools it will turn into a bucket full of white gelatinous soap thickness depends on size of bucket used).

To use, I put two cups into a full load of laundry. Sometimes (when I think of it) I add a handful of baking soda to the load and I use vinegar in a Downy Ball as softener. This bucket of soap does a lot of laundry and more soap is just 15 minutes away. I buy the Ivory in bulk and the Washing Soda is found near the Borax type products in the grocery store. Washing Soda is made by Arm and Hammer and the box looks like a big box of baking soda (but is NOT the same thing!). In a pinch I go ahead and use this before it's cooled as a liquid... works fine. You can adjust this recipe by using any bar soap, and less water will make it more concentrated. I just use a used Electrol dishwashing det. bucket with an old soup ladle for a scoop. I use one ladle per load, maybe two if the clothes are very dirty.

-- Carol (glear@usa.net), September 25, 1999

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Printed that one. Thanks very much.

-- PH (ag3@interlog.com), September 25, 1999.

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