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Making Your Own Laundry Detergent: A Detailed Visual Guide. About a year ago, I posted a general description of how to make your own laundry detergent that proved quite popular.

Making Your Own Laundry Detergent: A Detailed Visual Guide

That article basically described in a general sense how one could make laundry detergent at home very cheaply, but it left out a lot of key issues: does it work well? What does it look like as you are making it? What are the real-world costs and time investment? What equipment do you need? This past weekend, I made a fresh batch of homemade laundry detergent and I took a ton of notes and pictures. Making the Laundry Detergent The only ingredients you actually need for homemade laundry detergent are as follows: 1 cup washing soda (I use Arm & Hammer) 1/2 cup borax (I use 20 Mule Team) 1 bar soap (I use whatever’s cheap, in this case Pure & Natural) Approximately 3 gallons water First thing, put about four cups of water into the pan and put it on the stove on high until it’s at boiling, then lower the heat until it’s simmering.

My batch wound up being rather slimy. Mustard. SoapCalc. Making Goats Milk Soap. What you need to have available before you even think about making soap: -A good scale that measures to the tenth of an ounce.

Making Goats Milk Soap

I do all my weighing for soap by ounces, but you do need the tenth of oz when making other things such as lotion, lip balm, etc. I found a new scale on ebay at a very good price. -Two stainless steel cooking pots that you will only use for soapmaking from now on – I use a 10 quart and a 12 quart. The smaller one you want to earmark for mixing the lye with liquid, the bigger one is the one you always use for the oils-melting/warming, and then you add the lye mixture to that one to bring soap to trace. -A soap mold. -Rubber gloves and goggles -Vinegar (for neutralizing lye mixture if you should splash some on skin) -Paper towels/waxed paper -Long pants, long shirt sleeves, closed toe shoes.

How I make Goats Milk Soap 1. 2. 3. 4.Okay, once you have all your needed resources and recipe, you are ready to make soap, right? 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. How to Make Your Own Soap: 10 steps. 2 - Buy Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) Lye Release: TERMS AND CONDITIONS By adding this product to your cart, you are agreeing to the following statements: I understand that Sodium / Potassium Hydroxide is a potentially dangerous material that when mishandled or misused can cause harm, injury, or death. I am 18 years old or older. I am not purchasing Sodium / Potassium Hydroxide for any illegal use or purpose.

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