submitted by: Christi Jardine- Stake Provident Living Leader
This is a great way to store a large
amount of laundry detergent in a small space! Make sure to include the recipe
for laundry soap in the bucket!
Mobile Washer (Emergency Essentials)
5 gallon bucket
Clothes line
Clothes pins
Rubber gloves
Fels-Naptha soap bar
Washing Soda
Borax
Homemade Liquid Laundry Soap- yield: 5 gallons
Charlene Hertzberg, May 27, 2009,
localnews.coom, Idaho Falls
4 cups hot tap water
1 Fels-Naptha Soap bar
1 cup Washing Soda
½ cup Borax
Grate bar of soap and add to
saucepan with water. Stir continually over medium-low heat until soap dissolves
and is melted.
Fill a 5 gallon bucket half full of
hot tap water. Add melted soap, washing soda and Borax. Stir will until all
powder is dissolved. Fill bucket to top with more hot water. Stir, cover and
let sit overnight to thicken. To make it easy to use, pour it into an old
laundry detergent container.
Optional: Add 10-15 drops of
essential oil per 2 gallons. Add once soap has cooled. (lavender, rosemary,
etc.)
¼ cup per load: Top Loading Machine
(approx.180 loads)
1/8 cup per load: Front Loading
Machines (approx.360 loads)
