Making Laundry Soap

One of Karen's homemaking skills is making her own laundry soap. Why do that, you might ask? Well, Karen's done the math and her home made detergent allows her to wash 32 loads of clothes for 81 cents worth of raw materials. That's right. Karen can wash 32 loads of laundry for 81 cents TOTAL. That's 2.53 cents per load AND it gets the clothes clean!

All it takes is a little time, a bar of Fels-Naptha soap, some Borax, some washing soda, and storage containers.

Karen shaves, chops, and measures some of the soap bar--

stirs her bubbly brew in a bucket after mixing the ingredients in boiling water--

and pours it into old milk and detergent containers for storage.

Pretty amazing. The stuff really does work. If you'd like the recipe, let us know and we'll pass it along.

As a bonus...because Tanner hasn't had his picture on the blog for a while, here's Tanner enjoying his bean bag this afternoon.

Tanner takes it easy on a cold, wet day in Coshocton, Ohio.