It works fantastic, completely natural, and saves me from running to the store too. If you want to have industrial strength. You can add a small amount of Oxine to the mix.
1/3 bar of soap ground up. I've used an electric blender in the past. Lately, I have been scraping the soap using a serrated kitchen knife on a cutting board. This takes about the same amount of time as a mixer does, if considering the cleanup. Using a mixer, it is pretty much required to cutting the bar up into small enough pieces for the mixer to do its job. Also, last time I used Australian Botanical Goat's milk soap I got on amazon. Other brands of soap will work as well. I think the key is to use a 'dryer' bar of soap otherwise using the mixer, a more oily soap tends to gum it more. The idea is to be able to readily dissolve the soap in hot water. Experiment.
1/2 cup washing soda
1/4 cup 20 Mule Team all purpose borax.
Boil about a half to a quart of water on the stove. Turn the heat down once it reaches a rolling boiling. Slowly mix the ground up soap in the metal pan of water. Stir until it is completely dissolved. Then slowly add the Washing soda and Borax. Stir until it is completely dissolved in the solution. This is your concentrate.
I make a 5 gallon mixture with one bar of soap, 1-1/2 cup Washing soda, 1 cup borax. Add hot tap water to make the 5 gallons. Let it cool over night. Once cooled, the laundry soap becomes a gelatinous mixture. I use one cup per load.
If you add the CDS solution you'll have to order a gallon of Oxine. This goes a long way as I will explain. The Oxine is a pre-CDS solution and makes a chlorine dioxide, which is the component in the touted OxiClean that makes everything so clean.
To make 1 gallon CDS (Oxine) solution
3.25 oz. of Oxine liquid
10 g Citrix
Use a Mason or Kerr glass jar or a glass lab beaker to pour the measure Oxine into and add the measured Citrix powder. Combine, gently mix, and let set for 5 to 6 minutes. The color will turn yellowish. This is your concentrate. Pour the solution in a gallon milk container. Add water to make a gallon. The Oxine can be purchased on Amazon. So, 3.25 oz. of Oxine from an 8 lb. gallon of Oxine makes one gallon of CDS(Oxine) solution. That's over 39 gallons of CDS (Oxine) solution. My bottle of Oxine is half full from over 4 years ago when I purchased it.
If you make the 5 gallon amount of laundry soap that I use, Add 2 cups of the Oxine solution you made in the laundry soap you just made.
5 gallons of laundry soap lasts me about 3 months for a family of 5. My son who is in chemistry class makes the Oxine solution. Since our new home doesn't have a deep sink, I make the laundry soap solution in the kitchen. Next, project for me is to plumb a deep sink in the lower level of the house by the water softener. Also, we use the CDS (Oxine) solution in spray bottles to clean the toilets, walls, counters, after doggy poo accidents, light switches, door knobs, .... just about everything. Hospitals use this too.
It works fantastic, completely natural, and saves me from running to the store too. If you want to have industrial strength. You can add a small amount of Oxine to the mix.
1/3 bar of soap ground up. I've used an electric blender in the past. Lately, I have been scraping the soap using a serrated kitchen knife on a cutting board. This takes about the same amount of time as a mixer does, if considering the cleanup. Using a mixer, it is pretty much required to cutting the bar up into small enough pieces for the mixer to do its job. Also, last time I used Australian Botanical Goat's milk soap I got on amazon. Other brands of soap will work as well. I think the key is to use a 'dryer' bar of soap otherwise using the mixer, a more oily soap tends to gum it more. The idea is to be able to readily dissolve the soap in hot water. Experiment.
1/2 cup washing soda
1/4 cup 20 Mule Team all purpose borax.
Boil about a half to a quart of water on the stove. Turn the heat down once it reaches a rolling boiling. Slowly mix the ground up soap in the metal pan of water. Stir until it is completely dissolved. Then slowly add the Washing soda and Borax. Stir until it is completely dissolved in the solution. This is your concentrate.
I make a 5 gallon mixture with one bar of soap, 1-1/2 cup Washing soda, 1 cup borax. Add hot tap water to make the 5 gallons. Let it cool over night. Once cooled, the laundry soap becomes a gelatinous mixture. I use one cup per load.
If you add the CDS solution you'[ll have to order a gallon of Oxine. This goes a long way as I will explain. The Oxine is a pre-CDS solution and makes a chlorine dioxide, which is the component in the touted OxiClean that makes everything so clean.
To make 1 gallon CDS (Oxine) solution
3.25 oz. of Oxine liquid
10 g Citrix
Use a Mason or Kerr glass jar or a glass lab beaker to pour the measure Oxine into and add the measured Citrix powder. Combine, gently mix, and let set for 5 to 6 minutes. The color will turn yellowish. This is your concentrate. Pour the solution in a gallon milk container. Add water to make a gallon. The Oxine (www.amazon.com/Bio-Cide-International-Oxine-Gallon/dp/B000HT7H8W/ref=sr_1_13) can be purchased on Amazon.
If you make the 5 gallon amount I use, Add 2 cups of the Oxine solution you made in the laundry soap you made.
5 gallons of laundry soap lasts me about 3 months for a family of 5. My son who is in chemistry class makes the Oxine solution. Since our new home doesn't have a deep sink, I make the laundry soap solution in the kitchen. Next, project for me is to plumb a deep sink in the lower level of the house by the water softener.