After reading http://www.thesimpledollar.com/ and a few other convicing blogs, we decided to take the plunge - make our own detergent. For a newbie, easier said than done...Arm and Hammer Washing soda... not easy to find.. kind of. We called 7 different hardware stores and walked through many stores... never to find the stuff. Finally, Acehardware ordered for us. Great! $4 and it arrived within days, no shipping. After Greg picked it up and we put it to work, we discovered that our neighborhood Piggly Wiggly had the stuff! At a lower price! Don't we feel silly. Oh well. So... what was the result of the experiment?
We made 2 kinds of detergent: Simple Dollar liquid and Duggar's (19 Kids and Counting) dry. Both work very, very well... better in fact than our store brand detergent. Is it better than Tide Coldwater... about the same. Better than Rockin Green? Well... let's not be silly. Nothing is better than Rockin' Green... we just cannot afford it for all of our washing.
The recipes we used:
Simple Dollar Liquid:
http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2008/04/09/making-your-own-laundry-detergent-a-detailed-visual-guide/
Duggar's Dry:
http://www.duggarfamily.com/recipes.html
Cost... CHEAP! We bought a box grater ($1), used an old spoon (free), Washing Soda ($4), Borax ($3), 3 bars of Dove soap and a special bucket from Fleet Farm ($8). We have most of the box of Borax, most of the washing soda and a bar of soap left for future batches. Cheap, cheap, cheap. Truth be told, we prefer the liquid soap but both work very well. Our budget and sense of pride could not be happier!
Fabric softener solutions are next!
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