Diaper Washing: Homemade liquid laundry detergent
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Ingredients:
🧼 one bar Fels Naptha soap, grated (2-3oz bars or 1 4-5.5oz bar) (the finer grated the better)🧼 one cup washing soda
🧼 5 gallon bucket
🧼 Water
Directions:
Place grated soap in a small saucepan and cover it with water.If you let this sit overnight, it is MUCH faster.
Heat on low until dissolved - don't stir too rapidly or too much, it will get foamy and you won't be able to see if it dissolved.
If you let it sit overnight, it takes roughly 20 minutes to dissolve.
If you didn't let it sit, it takes much longer.
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| Fels-Naptha Laundry Bar Soap |
Stir to combine.
Add 1 cup of washing soda and mix well.
Don't reverse the order or it won't turn out.
As it cools it will thicken.
Use about 1/2 cup for diapers.
And 1-2 cups for other types of laundry.
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| Plastic Bucket |
I pour it into gallon jugs while it is still warm.
If you do this, only fill 3/4 of the way.
You will want to shake it to get it to mix and will need the room.
I learned this the hard way. LOL.
You can customize your detergent by adding essential oils to it.
Only add to the current jug you are using, because it loses its smell.
It is very soft without fabric softener.
If you add fabric softener, it makes clothes feel funny.
Thanks to Judi Sutherland for this Frugal Baby Tip!
Category: Diaper Washing, feature
If anyone is reading, don't do this!!! This is a great way to get smelly diapers and rashes. To clean diapers properly in modern low-water washing machines you need a detergent with surfacants. Surfacants and soaps are not the same; info here: https://www.nycoproducts.com/resources/blog/simple-science-the-difference-between-soap-and-detergent/
Soap leaves a film that can trap bacteria and detergent which becomes a big problem with diapers.
These are the dirtiest things you'll ever wash, wash them with detergents that can get them clean.