Home laundry detergent £1.50 for 10 gallons

[Totally Scrambled]

Just don't go mad and start starching his Y fronts. Nothing worse than starched pants. Most uncomfortable
Dom

[Benny&Co]

Just don't go mad and start starching his Y fronts. Nothing worse than starched pants. Most uncomfortable
Dom

Awww Dom!!

[poncharetta]

Dom what on earth did you DO to deserve that????!!!

[bosephus]

You make it up with equal parts of borax, soap and washing soda and so if you want just mix a cup or even half a cup of each and see whether you like using it Bev.

Google it and add UK in your search and I'm sure there will be sites will come up.

Dont know if anyone else does this but when you want to break up the soap bar rather than grating it you can stick it in the microwave for a couple of minutes ..the bar starts to swell and the air bubbles in between the soap particles expand ..let it cool down and then rub it in between your hands to make the powder. You can then do a third quarter of a bar if you want so the rest is intact.

This one makes a powder and so you don't have bottles or liquid standing around everywhere....just a thought.

just don't put too much soap in there! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lAOOwMNodA

[manda]

Forgot to say that...and you need to leave the microwave open to let the smell of soap out ...but I'd still rather do that than grate it

[Benny&Co]

maybe I'd better stick to the grater

[Mrs B]

Just don't go mad and start starching his Y fronts. Nothing worse than starched pants. Most uncomfortable
Dom

There is something worse having the pant pophole sewn up and you not knowing it, my aunt did that to my uncle to get him out of y fronts and into boxers

[Steve the Gas]

It runs in the family dunnit

That streak

[Mrs B]

It runs in the family dunnit

That streak

Oh yes

[Benny&Co]

Hey folks, well all my bits and bobs arrived over the weekend, so I thought I'd try it all out yesterday

Still haven't found a UK recipe for laundry liquid, there's one for powder but I wanted to try liquid first.

Here's what I did:

1 cup Borax
1 cup Washing Soda
1 cup grated soap

First off I melted the soap in a bit of boiled water then added the rest to a litre.

Then I chucked in the Borax/Washing soda (it all overboiled too )

Then I put it all in a big box with lid and added another 5Lt to make 6 litres.

Kept stirring through the day and I'd seen somewhere that you need to leave it to rest for 24hours.

Got up this morning and it's all separated. There's a very thin white liquid and what looks like the water...?

Maybe I shouldn't have put the borax/washing soda in with the soap to melt?

Think I might try the powdered version next....

[manda]

More soap needed Bev.

[Benny&Co]

Oooh okay, thanks Manda. More of the grated soap do you mean?

Wonder if that's why it separated. Forgot to say also I put about 3 drops of lavender essential oil in there as well, but don't think that would've caused it hey?

I mixed it up a bit and tried out on some towels anyway, put a litre of the stuff in the drawer and another litre in the drum for good measure. They seem to be okay....

I thought I had to put equal measures of all the ingredients in?

[manda]

Different soaps different effects...but whatever soap you are using I would say use some more .....then you may get a more stringy feel to it...and don't keep stirring it leave it to sit because that's how it starts to get that stringy thing going.

[p.penn]

I think I would have gone with the powder....sounds much easier!!

[Benny&Co]

Ah righty, maybe that's why as I did stirr it a bit, both in the pan and then in the big box - ooops!