Home Made Laundry Detergent Recipe

• Ivory or Fels Naptha Soap
• Arm & Hammer Washing Soda
• Borax

This is the laundry detergent I used for about 18 years.  We raised three boys, on a farm, and one was a football player.  And this got our clothes clean.  Now that the kids are grown I admit to being lazy and using Purex...  but for the last year or two that the kids were here, I had switched to a homemade powdered laundry detergent, because the recipe above can be a bit slimy, and powdered detergent was generally easier, and very cheap to make.  

• Ivory or Fels Naptha Soap
• Arm & Hammer Washing Soda
• Borax
• Purex Crystals (Optional) Or Downy Unstoppables
• Oxi Clean (Optional)

The Purex crystals are purely optional!  I like the smell.  They are a "laundry booster", but I am pretty sure you can skip them and not really notice any difference in how clean your clothes are.  :-)  I like to purchase these ingredients at Dollar General on Saturdays - when there is almost always a $5 off $25 coupon.  

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And for stains - especially soda, or oil stains like salad dressing, this is literally the best.  It's usually in the aisle with the pine sol, not the laundry detergents.

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