Mommy Saves Money: Laundry and Dish Detergent

Laundry Detergent and Dish Detergent Review and Recipe

This is such an affordable and green way to get clean clothes, and dishes! I spent less than 10$ on all the ingredients, and it only took me 20 minutes to make both Laundry and Dish Detergents.

Laundry Detergent Ingredients: This is Doubled

2 Cups Borax

2 Cups Washing Soda

2 Bars Fels Naptha

Dish Detergent Ingredients:

1 Cup Borax

1 Cup Washing Soda

1 Cup Sea Salt

2 Packs LEMON KoolAid

Grate up the 2 bars of Fels Naptha, this part was kind of a pain in the ass. I should have just used my food processor but I didn't want to get it out. 

1(2) cups washing soda

1(2) cups Borax

I mixed it all up in a bowl, but you could easily just put it in the container and mix it up. 

The Dish Detergent was made basically the same way! Just add Salt and koolaid as apposed to fels naptha (I didn't have as fancy of a little container for the dish soap.)

Laundry Review:

The Test: Ketchup rubbed into the shirt. First using our normal detergent

It came out clean on the Arm and Hammer side. Now lets try my home made detergent

BOTH SIDES CLEAN! (The husband was very happy since this was his shirt)

Dish Detergent Review: 

I found that it works better when you add a few drops of Dawn dish soap into the "pre-wash" section. otherwise you get some spots. Everything was clean, and smelled fresh, not like lemon. Just fresh. 

Hope this is helpful!