Make Your Own Detergent!

Although I had already read something about it, I had never really tried to make my own detergent. Your tip seems to be interesting and quite easy to do. I think I'm going to try it! Thanks.

 

I have seen a couple of diy laundry soaps but this one is the simpliest one yet. The ones I have seen consists of about 6 ingridients and this one only has half the amount. Thanks for sharing as this for sure will be saving a lot of cash.

 

@wallet They call me an experimenter at home for I am fond of experimenting on concoctions. So maybe I can try your recipe for a homemade detergent and see the results myself. In fact, I have just tried a homemade concoction of insect repellent and currently testing it for 3 days now. It's looking good and the mosquitoes seemed to have been avoiding our living room. I will post this homemade insect repellent when I finally have compiled my test results. As for this homemade detergent, I will definitely try it.

 

Thanks for explaining the home made method. I think it's a good idea. But if your home has kids and too much stuff laying around. It's better to avoid doing all of that. I think for those who are living in a country side. They can surely make use of that as well. That surely helps save some money.

 

This sounds so interesting and so economical. I could go with using just 2-3 ingredients like you have done, but would probably experiment with fragrance of some kind to make it more interesting! Although, I do have one question, what kind of bar soap have used the shavings from?

 

This is a really simple and great formula - thanks for sharing!

Another method that I've had success with is using soap nuts to wash laundry and also for use in homemade hair/body soap. Soap nuts naturally produce saponins, which is what makes the bubbles in traditional soaps from the drugstore. You just simply put two to three soap nuts in a small mesh laundry bag with your clothes. You can also add a couple drops of essential oil if you want your clothes to have a particular scent. The great part about these are you can reuse the soap nuts a couple times before all of the saponins are completely extracted. I ordered a large bag of the soap nuts from Mountain Rose Herbs and I've had it for a little over two years with only half the bag gone.

There are a ton of different ways to use the soap nuts. If anyone is interested I can post a few formulas for shampoo and housecleaning products using soaps nuts as well. Hope this was helpful!

 

Wow, I am so impressed by this because it's actually part of my family business. We deal on locally made detergents. It's used for washing of all sorts of laundry especially hotel laundry, plates, houses and vehicles.

This actually saves a lot of money for people that patronize us because it's cheaper and also gives you the same benefits and satisfaction of using other costly detergents.

 

Well it seems easy enough, but I would have to do some caluculations here before I am sure it would end up saving me money. I mostly say that though because I just anticipate myself messing something up.

 

That is very interesting. We get soap nuts abundantly here in India and they are very cheap too. I use powdered soap nuts along with a few ingredients to wash my hair with but I never gave a thought that they can be used to wash clothes too. I mean, I know that soap nuts are used to wash very expensive silk clothes by older women in my country. I think I must explore it further! Great job by the way that you are doing with your soap nuts!

 

@Paige J. Wow, I never knew such nuts actually occur. Why didn't they teach this things in school. It will be beneficial to mankind if only the trees were available and growing all over the world. I once saw a documentary wherein a man is collecting dry leaves that fall from a certain tree (can't remember the name of the tree though) and then mixes it with water in a pale, after some time bubbles starts to appear. The man said it is very abundant in their region and they were using it as some sort of a shampoo. Thanks for sharing about soap nuts.

 

This is such a simple thing to do. I have never thought about making my own detergent before. I have made stuff like hand cream and mixed natural products for body use. I will definitely try this and see how it works. It is amazing how many things you can make with just normal stuff you keep in the house. Someone mentioned using vanilla sticks as a perfume

Can you add drops of oil perfume to this recipe to give your soap/clothes a great after-wash smell?

 

Can you share the method of making the insect repellent please? Here we always have to "stay" with the mosquitoes, and there are many nights we couldn't sleep well. I have tried a few methods, but they don't seem to work well.

This method of making detergent seems easy. I have heard a friend saying it's really hard to make the liquid detergent. Perhaps she is using a different method. I would like to give this a try.

 

A few years ago, we joined a company that sells DIY soaps, shampoos and laundry detergent. You'll buy a certain package which consists of the ingredients to be used in doing any of these. They are way more cheaper compared when you buy a shampoo, soap and laundry detergent from your local store. They are fun to make as well but there will be a process and you have to wait for a certain time before you can use the product

 

Woww!! I have never thought of making my detergents myself. I bet it will save me a lot of money and maybe I may make a little cash from it. Thanks @wallet for this information.