FANTASTIC information!!! And, unlike the majority out there, I do NOT I give a rat's tail for "natural". I want it to work. I mean I don't mind "natural" but I don't make it my religion, I only look at what my pocketbook has to offer first. THANK YOU!!!
Well, eventually your pocket book will be empty paying medical bills if you don't eat organic and use clean products. How about it being "natural" and WORK?
@@sweetgrassprincess you totally took my comment out of context. On the other hand I am thrilled that you feel that God takes care of all living beings now and also cares about all future generations. Amen to that!!
Yrs ago I did the homemade recipe with the soap bars. After few months I stopped because I could see on my black clothing wall the buildup. However I recently stated making a powder form A small box of a powder laundry detergent of your liking Half of 10 lb bag of baking soda A small container of oxiclean Box of borax laundry booster Plus one time I added a bag of foca too All works well.
I made my own detergent just fall 2021 and let me tell U it was a mess to my skin. I followed some crazy recipe that everybody else did on yt. Didn't work for me and U r right U have to have surfactants n Ur wash soap. I started using 🥥 oil in my bath soap and hair. So now I add a 🥥 bar soap to my self made laundry 🧺 that I've just started back making 2022. Prayfully I can find Ur soap online because I love buying soaps. Thanks a bunch!
I don't use Zote. I buy a commercial detergent for HE, washing soda, borax and scent beads or booster. If needed I add oxi clean or baking soda because oxi clean bleaches or fades my tops and pants. I have had good success for 2 years. It is also also convenient and cheaper. Yes I add the same measurements for each ingredient. Thanks for your help!
That is the truth.🙂 All Stain removing bars if soap and body washing soap are not detergent.😮 In my opinion all dry laundry detergent does not dissolve in the washing machine.😮 And all bars of soap doesn't dissolve.😮 I actually prefer liquid name brand laundry detergent or my special DIY laundry detergent. 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂 One big bottle of Down liquid dish soap the one with the duck.😍 One cup of borax 🤔 One cup of laundry baking soda.🤔 One cup of baking soda regular.🤔 Three cups or four cups of pure coconut oil.🤔 One cup of OxiClean.🤔 30 drops of lavender pure essential oil and some tea tree pure essential oil.🤔 Mix all dry ingredients very well in a 5 gallon bucket .🤔 Add hot water mix well.🤔 Add some liquid pure organic coconut oil .🤔 Add the Down dish soap.🤔 Mix very good.🤔 Add the pure essential oils.🤔 Mix well.🤔 Always use white vinegar as your fabric softener .😍 And always use a wooly ball with some essential oil for your dryer never use fabric softener sheets they are dangerous as well as they build up onto your machine. One glass bottle.🤔 Some witch hazel. 🤔 Some pure essential oils .🤔 And some distilled water.🤔 Spray a few sprays onto the wooly ball and place in the dryer with your clothing.🤔 I just love seeing how other people clean there clothing. I also do a lot of hand washing with many of my clothing and hang drying outside even in the winter as long as it is not raining or snowing.🤔 I use 5 gallon buckets and a plunger.🤔 And for bigger loads a rope handle bucket.🤔 I wash every day something in a bucket.🤔 To save on energy.🤔 And dry outside or in my basement.🤔 It is always a good skills to learn how to hand wash your laundry.😍 And it is always a good skill in how to gather rainwater.
We have hard well water. I tried the Fells-Naptha/washing soda/borax/etc recipe and thought it was working fine except my towels & Tshirts etc started to appear worn. Laundry started to smell terrible! We have always had top load and used cold water. I did some experiments w Borax & figured out that it doesn't dissolve very well. Anything waxy does stick to surfaces and mold will grow, and I'm wondering if the build-up caused the funk and broke my original washer. Now I have a new Maytag Washer (3 years now) I'm afraid to put anything but commercial stuff in it. However, I'm using warm water and measuring it a lot more accurately. Detergent lasts a lot longer when you measure. I did see a video where a woman was trying to save money and she mixed some Dollar Tree detergent w a higher name brand detergent. I was wondering how that would work w my machine and hard water. Thank you for this info. I subscribed. Take care
With hard well water, I wouldn't mess around with any diy detergent or soap in your machine. Hard water is a major problem at best; I don't know how you managed to get anything clean at all using soap and cold water! I'm glad to hear that you're using commercial detergent and warm water, now. I'm sure you'll find that your laundry gets cleaner and there will be less build-up in your machine. Since you must not have a water softener, have you tried Calgon liquid water softener in your wash cycle? Or real trisodium phospate? Just a bit. Not too much, because it's rough on fabrics if you use too much. Taking tsp out of commercial detergents was not only useless to the algae situation, but actually counterproductive, considering that we had to use a lot more detergent and additives than we did before, just to achieve half the result.
So coconut oil or lard only bar soap are Surfactants? Will Not Coat my Fabrics? Or Clog my machine? I watched videos that said to use equal parts of the washing soda and Borax. That's too hard on your clothes and will eat the threads? So the Surfactant added prevents that ? Cannot use Foca as it has fragrance. Which is better coconut or Lard?
HI! Lye and an oil, mixing until it looks like pudding cause a chemical reaction called sophonication (spelled wrong). It literally changes the oil to a different thing.
all ingredients are in the video. in any recipe that has oxyclean or baking soda. you can leave out. baking soda is to take the smell out of the clothes and oxyclean is a booster.
But fabric softeners are bad for your clothes. I use white distilled vinegar. It cleans, disinfects (both clothes and washing machine), deodorizes, leaves your clothes with a fresh scent. I also soak color-fast clothes in equal parts of white distilled vinegar and cold water.
Vinegar eats at the rubber gaskets in your machine. There's a laundry pro on UA-cam warning people to avoid putting it in your machine because of that.
ZOTE soap 🧼 is for laundry (shred one large bar) is great on all laundry and helps whiten (I used to hand wash all my clothes in it and no problems), Foca laundry detergent (comes in a bag) 4 lbs (is biodegradable), 1 small dollar store box of color safe bleach, 2 boxes of dollar store laundry powder (saves $ & stretches out the mix) and one smallest box of Gain ( gain for added washing and the scent ,skip the beads) . This has been the best of the best mix I've ever come up with. A full tablespoon per 1sm load 2 for a med load and 3 or 4 for a LG load . Use very diluted Dawn dish soap for super stains rinse out a bit before tossing in wash. The mix has a very trace small amount of suds no problem as long as your not tempted to add more than recommended . I truly believe people are only using cold to wash and are not going by manufacturer washing labels on laundry so not using warm or hot water they get gummy machines and dingy clothes. That may be the reason they seem to not like homemade concoctions . This has worked excellent and lasted easy over 8 months plus has the fresh gain scent. I haven't gone wrong with it.
I use the arm and hammer odor blaster liquid with the original zote mix. Same same. No problems with buildup. Im very unhappy with this backlash coming out against the homemade soap. As a natural redhead this shit has saved my skin. I cant use regular laundry soap and Ive NEVER had a problem.
@@kimberlyelkins5422 even with warm and hot water... I use warm/cold and hot/cold and rarely use cold/cold. Maybe that might make a difference 🤔 or try using less of the bar and only use the bar that is for washing clothes. Regular bathing bar soap will cause dingy laundry. I myself have not had any issues. The homemade laundry detergent works very well.
This is exactly how I made my last batch. I added the smallest gain for fragrance and surfactant. It works amazingly. I rub stains with my zote bar...this works to!
I want to make pine tar soap and add borax how much can i add and when do i add it? I've never made soap before but understand that pine tar soap is super easy and i have purchased it and lye and just waiting to get info on how to add borax. I want to use the borax as it kills dandruff and helps with under arm odor . So Loved Your video Today. I love finding the most effective natural and cost effective way to approach anything . :) Are You a Cancer too? They are savers of money :)
Good video, thanks. Yes, I too used to make the homemade detergents with the bar soaps. They were waxy and couldn't penetrate the clothing. The coconut bars aren't waxy? Then it sounds like a good recipe :-)
Coconut soap made from un-stripped coconut fatty acid is harsh on skin because of its content of short-chain fatty acids that don't contribute to detergency but are irritating. However, they are not harmful to fabrics. The alkali -- washing soda, borax, excess lye -- do degrade fabrics over time.
Thanks so much for the video! I’m trying to stay away from chemicals as much as possible but in this world, it’s impossible to eliminate all chemicals. I’ve started washing my clothes with original pinesol as my surfactant in the soap dispenser and baking soda in the drum. I also use white vinegar as my fabric softener. Such a big difference in how clean my clothes are but the biggest difference is that I no longer have animal hair on my clothes when I pull them from the dryer! Thanks to all the build up and waxes from my soap and fabric softeners that were costing me out the wazoo, they were making my clothes dingy and causing every hair to stick to my clothes! Also, feed stores sell baking soda in 50lb bags for about $25 so just a heads up for saving.
Try soap nuts all natural and work well from what I have seen on UA-cam. I wouldn't myself use pinesol for a laundry detergent as it reminds me of my mom mopping floors back in the day lol.. I would though use baking soda for wash and the soap nuts or Zote Flakes in a box. They flakes dissolve well and contain only a few ingredients. Soaking the wash for 20 minutes in warm or hot water depending on fabric label always worked when we used a ringer tub washer waaaaay back.
@@LG-universe Brainwashed by decades of advertising hype. BS is a weak base which reacts with and deodorizes acidic odoriferous compounds. But BS won’t deodorize other bases or hydrocarbons. This is easy to prove with household chemicals.
Lol, I was second-guessing myself in pronouncing surfactants. It's pronounced just as it's spelled, sur-FAK-tnts. Interesting recipe using coconut oil, I'll have to try that.
The pink Zote bar only has sodium tallowate, sodium cocoate (coconut oil), glycerin, fragrance, optical brightener and violet color. It is made to be a laundry soap so I don’t understand why people are complaining about using it.
2 bars kirks castile soap, 1/4 cup borax, 1 cup super washing soda, 30 ml polysorbate 80, 1 cup citric acid, 1/2 cup espom salts, 1/4 cup oxyclean 30 drops essential oil for fragrance. @@playinginthekitchenwithv7140
Use warm water. Zote works well in warm. Most laundry should be washed in warm anyway. ( unless label says cold only) It won't leave a film. I used to wash all my laundry by hand and it never left film as I used warm. Now I use it in my homemade detergent and no problem. I do stick to my warm water though.
@@FrankGutowski-ls8jt Absolutely. So many of these diy videos ignore water hardness as a factor, when it's probably *the* most important factor. My sister lived in Tacoma, WA, where the water is naturally soft and got very spoiled. Then she moved to South Dakota, where the water is extremely hard and she had fits. Even with a water softener, it wasn't the same. Clothes don't get as clean, there's calcium build-up everywhere, hair gets brittle, skin gets rough. Housekeeping is three times harder, at least. Not only do you have to work harder to clean anything in the first place, but then you have to work to remove the hard-water deposits, too.
@@edennis8578 Plus, SD is a nasty red state. Noooo thanks! I’m steering clear. From what I know of detergent formulation you’re right about water hardness. 3/4 of US households have hard water. I only visited, but Midland/Odessa, TX, aside from being in the middle of nowhere, is nasty because of its fine brown dust. Gets into every crack and crevice. Analogous to what soot used to do in PA steel towns. Water tastes awful. Very hard.
I think if it has not waxes. It should be fine. DR. Bonners is normally liquid. So if your making a liquid it should work. Again I would look at the ingredients
@@TrainerInTraining Sounds like you don’t understand the ingredients. Why two water softeners? Why any water softeners? Foca should be formulated correctly for hard water. Do you have reason believe it’s not? Or are you just obsessed with making your own custom washing powder?
@@FrankGutowski-ls8jt To address your first comment: yes, correct. As far as the rest of your response: what are you hanging around homemade laundry recipe videos for? Just to scour the comments and be a dickhead when someone asks you a question?
Surfactant is pronounced w/an emphasis on the second syllable. Sur-FAC-tunt. I've made my own bar soap in the past. I make my powdered laundry soap. I never use Zote or Fels Naphtha . Can't stand the smell of either. I use a bar of plant-based soap....usually Mrs. Meyers. I haven't had any trouble w/build-up.Like you I'm a very frugal person, too. I stopped using fabric softener. According to Patric (that's how he spells it) Richardson, the Laundry Guy, fabric softener is not good for laundry. It leaves a coating on it which attracts dirt ! He likes just plain old white vinegar which does not leave the smell of vinegar on the laundry. So, that's what I use now. He also goes by the Laundry Evangelist. Boy, does he ever know a lot about laundry & how to get out stains !! I'm 76, been doing laundry a long, long time....but I'll admit I've learned a few things from Patric. Hope you have a great rest of 2024 !
Not in this video, borax and washing soda also help detergent work better, they're not JUST water softeners, that's why they can also be used to clean all over the house. And Foca is a detergent! This is the only diy laundry detergent recipe that will actually work.
@@dinarusso3320 Sounds like your research is based on reading marketing hype on the boxes. WS and borax soften water by forming precipitates with hard water contaminants. They are also bases. You are referring to them as cleaners when used as mild abrasives or damp pastes, not when dissolved. Yes, they may help to dissolve acidic stains, but that’s not why they are used in detergents. Foca is formulated to work as is; hence, diluting it only serves to reduce cleaning performance. The hype on the boxes is written to get consumers like you to buy, not to explain how the product works or why. Your vague idea that it somehow helps detergents “work better” is exactly what they want you to believe.
@@dinarusso3320 But Foca probably contains a small amount of sodium carbonate (anhydrous washing soda) as a byproduct. Detergent makers used to add large amounts of washing soda and/or borax to cheapen the product, but such products became known to give inferior cleaning and accelerate the degradation of fabrics. There is no use adding these materials back in such large proportions. You'd be better off using nothing but the Foca, and just pretending to add those alkali, reducing the amount of Foca proportionally to the "nothing" you'd be adding.
@@goodmaro Yes. Foca alone would be preferable, but these DIY enthusiasts like to bring to bear their vast knowledge of laundry science courtesy of clueless mommy bloggers.
@@goodmaro Some detergents using liquid surfactants may have used WS or borax to distribute those ingredients in a mixture of solids. Magnesium sulfate is used today for that purpose. It’s not a filler because it serves as a carrier or distribution/processing aid. Additives like those are called builders.
ATTENTION "V" Would you print a recipe for Homemade Laundry Detergent without bar soap (need recipe for HE WASHER and granular Detergent). This is confusing to me since I am new at this. Please print as simple a recipe as possible. Thanks
Quit being a troll and go watch someone else. These people do not need your negativity. Raise people up don’t tear them down. Some people may need to hear what she has to say.
@@gwenaverehendrix6668 Don't you see such criticism as useful? UA-cam is a great institution, but also overflowing with sprawling pieces by people who need more practice and help tightening their productions, and also with abuses of the medium by making a video where text would suffice and be more compact and easily searched and indexed. Plus the amount of copycat, totally redundant info on UA-cam is phenomenal, fed by people, especially children, who just want to put up videos but have nothing new to say. People *do* need "negativity" like this. It may get them to stop doing what they're doing and instead do it better or do something else entirely.
sur-FAC-tant GLISS-er-in Other than that, interested in trying this. I’ve avoided making my own laundry detergent because of the issues you noted. Thanks for sharing!
FANTASTIC information!!! And, unlike the majority out there, I do NOT I give a rat's tail for "natural". I want it to work. I mean I don't mind "natural" but I don't make it my religion, I only look at what my pocketbook has to offer first. THANK YOU!!!
Well, eventually your pocket book will be empty paying medical bills if you don't eat organic and use clean products. How about it being "natural" and WORK?
Natural is not a religion but a way of life that not only cares about all living beings now but cares about all future generations.
@@sweetgrassprincess you totally took my comment out of context. On the other hand I am thrilled that you feel that God takes care of all living beings now and also cares about all future generations. Amen to that!!
Thank u
Yrs ago I did the homemade recipe with the soap bars. After few months I stopped because I could see on my black clothing wall the buildup.
However I recently stated making a powder form
A small box of a powder laundry detergent of your liking
Half of 10 lb bag of baking soda
A small container of oxiclean
Box of borax laundry booster
Plus one time I added a bag of foca too
All works well.
Baking soda is a filler. Waste of $. You don’t need borax, an alkaline water softener that’s only 1/10 as soluble as washing soda.
Yes great stuff right there
I made my own detergent just fall 2021 and let me tell U it was a mess to my skin. I followed some crazy recipe that everybody else did on yt. Didn't work for me and U r right U have to have surfactants n Ur wash soap. I started using 🥥 oil in my bath soap and hair. So now I add a 🥥 bar soap to my self made laundry 🧺 that I've just started back making 2022. Prayfully I can find Ur soap online because I love buying soaps. Thanks a bunch!
Could you share your recipe with me? I have sensitive skin and use only ALL FREE AND CLEAR but I want to start making my own laundry soap.
Bar soap has way less ingredients than body wash. I like Jergens or dove or Dial bar soap for showering.
I don't use Zote. I buy a commercial detergent for HE, washing soda, borax and scent beads or booster. If needed I add oxi clean or baking soda because oxi clean bleaches or fades my tops and pants. I have had good success for 2 years. It is also also convenient and cheaper. Yes I add the same measurements for each ingredient. Thanks for your help!
That is the truth.🙂
All Stain removing bars if soap and body washing soap are not detergent.😮
In my opinion all dry laundry detergent does not dissolve in the washing machine.😮
And all bars of soap doesn't dissolve.😮
I actually prefer liquid name brand laundry detergent or my special DIY laundry detergent.
🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂
One big bottle of Down liquid dish soap the one with the duck.😍
One cup of borax 🤔
One cup of laundry baking soda.🤔
One cup of baking soda regular.🤔
Three cups or four cups of pure coconut oil.🤔
One cup of OxiClean.🤔
30 drops of lavender pure essential oil and some tea tree pure essential oil.🤔
Mix all dry ingredients very well in a 5 gallon bucket .🤔
Add hot water mix well.🤔
Add some liquid pure organic coconut oil .🤔
Add the Down dish soap.🤔
Mix very good.🤔
Add the pure essential oils.🤔
Mix well.🤔
Always use white vinegar as your fabric softener .😍
And always use a wooly ball with some essential oil for your dryer never use fabric softener sheets they are dangerous as well as they build up onto your machine.
One glass bottle.🤔
Some witch hazel. 🤔
Some pure essential oils .🤔
And some distilled water.🤔
Spray a few sprays onto the wooly ball and place in the dryer with your clothing.🤔
I just love seeing how other people clean there clothing.
I also do a lot of hand washing with many of my clothing and hang drying outside even in the winter as long as it is not raining or snowing.🤔
I use 5 gallon buckets and a plunger.🤔
And for bigger loads a rope handle bucket.🤔
I wash every day something in a bucket.🤔
To save on energy.🤔
And dry outside or in my basement.🤔
It is always a good skills to learn how to hand wash your laundry.😍
And it is always a good skill in how to gather rainwater.
We have hard well water. I tried the Fells-Naptha/washing soda/borax/etc recipe and thought it was working fine except my towels & Tshirts etc started to appear worn. Laundry started to smell terrible! We have always had top load and used cold water. I did some experiments w Borax & figured out that it doesn't dissolve very well. Anything waxy does stick to surfaces and mold will grow, and I'm wondering if the build-up caused the funk and broke my original washer. Now I have a new Maytag Washer (3 years now) I'm afraid to put anything but commercial stuff in it. However, I'm using warm water and measuring it a lot more accurately. Detergent lasts a lot longer when you measure. I did see a video where a woman was trying to save money and she mixed some Dollar Tree detergent w a higher name brand detergent. I was wondering how that would work w my machine and hard water. Thank you for this info. I subscribed. Take care
No modern washers are designed to use soap. No mainstream laundry product has used soap for 70 years. These hillbilly DIYers are wasting time and $.
@@FrankGutowski-ls8jt Thank you.
With hard well water, I wouldn't mess around with any diy detergent or soap in your machine. Hard water is a major problem at best; I don't know how you managed to get anything clean at all using soap and cold water! I'm glad to hear that you're using commercial detergent and warm water, now. I'm sure you'll find that your laundry gets cleaner and there will be less build-up in your machine. Since you must not have a water softener, have you tried Calgon liquid water softener in your wash cycle? Or real trisodium phospate? Just a bit. Not too much, because it's rough on fabrics if you use too much. Taking tsp out of commercial detergents was not only useless to the algae situation, but actually counterproductive, considering that we had to use a lot more detergent and additives than we did before, just to achieve half the result.
@@edennis8578
Millions of pounds of phosphate fertilizer, potassium phosphate, are applied to farmland annually. No one squawks about it.
Thanks for the heads up!
Any issues with skin irritation? I use ALL free and clear because I am allergic to most all soaps. I can use safeguard and All Free and clear.
No. But you might. It still has foca that is a detergent.
We farm and I can tell ya we get dirty. I've seen recipes for the liquid detergent with vegetable glycerin added to stabilize it
All soaps contain glycerin.
So coconut oil or lard only bar soap are Surfactants? Will Not Coat my Fabrics? Or Clog my machine? I watched videos that said to use equal parts of the washing soda and Borax. That's too hard on your clothes and will eat the threads? So the Surfactant added prevents that ? Cannot use Foca as it has fragrance. Which is better coconut or Lard?
HI! Lye and an oil, mixing until it looks like pudding cause a chemical reaction called sophonication (spelled wrong). It literally changes the oil to a different thing.
I would do coconut oil soap. See how you like it. You can always add in lard soap later. Good luck!
@@juliebauman3998
Don’t quit your day job. You’re no chemist.
Coconut soap.will suds better and wash better
@@FrankGutowski-ls8jtreally. Lol I never made that claim. Thanks
Foca= Seal. Pronounce the 'o' as the o in hellO. Foca is a good laundry detergent! Thanks for the video.
Hi, thank you for the information. My question is what is the size of weight of the coconut soap please
I just made a batch of soap. Wish I had seen this sooner. Thanks for the video.
You can use it for cleaning your house in a spray bottle, or soaking really dirty items
Make it the next time. U will love it.
Right
Do you use oxyclean or baking soda in it like the majority of recipes? Can you list the exact ingredients for the laundry soap?
all ingredients are in the video. in any recipe that has oxyclean or baking soda. you can leave out. baking soda is to take the smell out of the clothes and oxyclean is a booster.
Great Band 🤗 … I will try your recipe, looks good!
Borax and baking soda are derived from minerals, so safe you can drink them
Oh no , that's not correct . Borax is dangerous to ingest .I use it to kill insects .
Yes they're natural minerals
I’m just loving the southern accent
But fabric softeners are bad for your clothes. I use white distilled vinegar. It cleans, disinfects (both clothes and washing machine), deodorizes, leaves your clothes with a fresh scent. I also soak color-fast clothes in equal parts of white distilled vinegar and cold water.
Much much too low a concentration to disinfect.
Vinegar eats at the rubber gaskets in your machine. There's a laundry pro on UA-cam warning people to avoid putting it in your machine because of that.
As a substitute for soap, climbing ivy or soap nuts can be used, which have a good content of saponifying agent
Wrong. They do not contain saponifying agent. They contain saponins.
@@FrankGutowski-ls8jt oui juste, je me suis mal exprimée en Anglais
ZOTE soap 🧼 is for laundry (shred one large bar) is great on all laundry and helps whiten (I used to hand wash all my clothes in it and no problems), Foca laundry detergent (comes in a bag) 4 lbs (is biodegradable), 1 small dollar store box of color safe bleach, 2 boxes of dollar store laundry powder (saves $ & stretches out the mix) and one smallest box of Gain ( gain for added washing and the scent ,skip the beads) . This has been the best of the best mix I've ever come up with. A full tablespoon per 1sm load 2 for a med load and 3 or 4 for a LG load . Use very diluted Dawn dish soap for super stains rinse out a bit before tossing in wash. The mix has a very trace small amount of suds no problem as long as your not tempted to add more than recommended . I truly believe people are only using cold to wash and are not going by manufacturer washing labels on laundry so not using warm or hot water they get gummy machines and dingy clothes. That may be the reason they seem to not like homemade concoctions . This has worked excellent and lasted easy over 8 months plus has the fresh gain scent. I haven't gone wrong with it.
Is the amount for HE washers? Thanks.
I think that soap bar is still causing soap scum in my washer and build up on clothes
I use the arm and hammer odor blaster liquid with the original zote mix. Same same. No problems with buildup. Im very unhappy with this backlash coming out against the homemade soap. As a natural redhead this shit has saved my skin. I cant use regular laundry soap and Ive NEVER had a problem.
@@kimberlyelkins5422 even with warm and hot water... I use warm/cold and hot/cold and rarely use cold/cold. Maybe that might make a difference 🤔 or try using less of the bar and only use the bar that is for washing clothes. Regular bathing bar soap will cause dingy laundry. I myself have not had any issues. The homemade laundry detergent works very well.
This is exactly how I made my last batch. I added the smallest gain for fragrance and surfactant. It works amazingly. I rub stains with my zote bar...this works to!
Kirk's Coco Castille is the best. Used it for decades. Has no tallow (beef fat).
I want to make pine tar soap and add borax how much can i add and when do i add it? I've never made soap before but understand that pine tar soap is super easy and i have purchased it and lye and just waiting to get info on how to add borax. I want to use the borax as it kills dandruff and helps with under arm odor . So Loved Your video Today. I love finding the most effective natural and cost effective way to approach anything . :) Are You a Cancer too? They are savers of money :)
You will need to add pine tar after you soap has come to trace and cook your soap til its clear or opaque
Also there are many suffants . However coconut is typically always the one most companies uses..
Borax i can't tell you because I dont make a soap with borax.
Good video, thanks. Yes, I too used to make the homemade detergents with the bar soaps. They were waxy and couldn't penetrate the clothing. The coconut bars aren't waxy? Then it sounds like a good recipe :-)
Thanks
Sur - fact- ant (hope that helps) lol cute. Thanks for the vid.
Thank u ❤
Coconut soap made from un-stripped coconut fatty acid is harsh on skin because of its content of short-chain fatty acids that don't contribute to detergency but are irritating. However, they are not harmful to fabrics. The alkali -- washing soda, borax, excess lye -- do degrade fabrics over time.
Thanks so much for the video! I’m trying to stay away from chemicals as much as possible but in this world, it’s impossible to eliminate all chemicals. I’ve started washing my clothes with original pinesol as my surfactant in the soap dispenser and baking soda in the drum. I also use white vinegar as my fabric softener. Such a big difference in how clean my clothes are but the biggest difference is that I no longer have animal hair on my clothes when I pull them from the dryer! Thanks to all the build up and waxes from my soap and fabric softeners that were costing me out the wazoo, they were making my clothes dingy and causing every hair to stick to my clothes! Also, feed stores sell baking soda in 50lb bags for about $25 so just a heads up for saving.
Try soap nuts all natural and work well from what I have seen on UA-cam. I wouldn't myself use pinesol for a laundry detergent as it reminds me of my mom mopping floors back in the day lol.. I would though use baking soda for wash and the soap nuts or Zote Flakes in a box. They flakes dissolve well and contain only a few ingredients. Soaking the wash for 20 minutes in warm or hot water depending on fabric label always worked when we used a ringer tub washer waaaaay back.
Baking soda is just a filler. You need a water softener.
@@FrankGutowski-ls8jtBaking soda is also a deodorizer.
@@LG-universe
Brainwashed by decades of advertising hype.
BS is a weak base which reacts with and deodorizes acidic odoriferous compounds.
But BS won’t deodorize other bases or hydrocarbons. This is easy to prove with household chemicals.
Thank u.
We use laundry soda
So you are keeping this as a powder? How much are you adding to your washer?
About two tablespoons
So you dont use your lard soap?
it depends on what soap I am making. if I am making a traditional lye bar. then it's just lye, water and lard.
Lol, I was second-guessing myself in pronouncing surfactants. It's pronounced just as it's spelled, sur-FAK-tnts. Interesting recipe using coconut oil, I'll have to try that.
Not oil but coconut soap
I thought ZOTE was out of beef tallow and coconut oil with some citronella
Soap and detergent are two different things. HE washers cannot handle soaps. Soaps also leave behind soap scum that will damage HE washers.
Yes you are correct. That why I don't use soap in a detergent. ❤
The pink Zote bar only has sodium tallowate, sodium cocoate (coconut oil), glycerin, fragrance, optical brightener and violet color. It is made to be a laundry soap so I don’t understand why people are complaining about using it.
All I know is when I use it I get build up of a waxy substance on my close.
Add oxy clean and baking soda to your already made batch and gurl it’s bomb!!
Actually I use the baking soda in the mix great stuff.
I just use 5 to 8 drops of essential oil per gallon. Lemon oil and lavender oil for a good smelling wash. not those pellets.
You do us soap?
2 bars kirks castile soap, 1/4 cup borax, 1 cup super washing soda, 30 ml polysorbate 80, 1 cup citric acid, 1/2 cup espom salts, 1/4 cup oxyclean 30 drops essential oil for fragrance. @@playinginthekitchenwithv7140
So zote is a no go? I just made some clothes detergent with it lbs
Yes it leaves build up on your clothes.
Use warm water. Zote works well in warm. Most laundry should be washed in warm anyway. ( unless label says cold only) It won't leave a film. I used to wash all my laundry by hand and it never left film as I used warm. Now I use it in my homemade detergent and no problem. I do stick to my warm water though.
@@doloresleyva8810 Any soap will deposit a film called soap scum if the water is hard.
@@FrankGutowski-ls8jt Absolutely. So many of these diy videos ignore water hardness as a factor, when it's probably *the* most important factor. My sister lived in Tacoma, WA, where the water is naturally soft and got very spoiled. Then she moved to South Dakota, where the water is extremely hard and she had fits. Even with a water softener, it wasn't the same. Clothes don't get as clean, there's calcium build-up everywhere, hair gets brittle, skin gets rough. Housekeeping is three times harder, at least. Not only do you have to work harder to clean anything in the first place, but then you have to work to remove the hard-water deposits, too.
@@edennis8578
Plus, SD is a nasty red state. Noooo thanks! I’m steering clear.
From what I know of detergent formulation you’re right about water hardness. 3/4 of US households have hard water.
I only visited, but Midland/Odessa, TX, aside from being in the middle of nowhere, is nasty because of its fine brown dust. Gets into every crack and crevice. Analogous to what soot used to do in PA steel towns. Water tastes awful. Very hard.
You just added heavy WAX into the mix!🤣 If you want clean...just get Tide or my favorite Persil. Just use less than you would think!
There is not wax in the recipe. No bar soap
What about adding Dr bronners ?
I think if it has not waxes. It should be fine. DR. Bonners is normally liquid. So if your making a liquid it should work. Again I would look at the ingredients
What's the recipe? Where do you get ingredients?
4 pounds Borax
4 lbs washing soda
4lbs Foca
Scent beads if wanted
Pick up at Walmart
@@melissamartin7273
Huge excesses of two water softeners reduce the concentrations of cleaning agents and therefore reduce cleaning effectiveness.
@@FrankGutowski-ls8jt Instead of equal parts, what ratio do you think is good? How about 10/10/80 (Washing Soda/Borax/Foca)?
@@TrainerInTraining
Sounds like you don’t understand the ingredients. Why two water softeners? Why any water softeners? Foca should be formulated correctly for hard water. Do you have reason believe it’s not? Or are you just obsessed with making your own custom washing powder?
@@FrankGutowski-ls8jt To address your first comment: yes, correct. As far as the rest of your response: what are you hanging around homemade laundry recipe videos for? Just to scour the comments and be a dickhead when someone asks you a question?
Surfactant is pronounced w/an emphasis on the second syllable. Sur-FAC-tunt. I've made my own bar soap in the past. I make my powdered laundry soap. I never use Zote or Fels Naphtha . Can't stand the smell of either. I use a bar of plant-based soap....usually Mrs. Meyers. I haven't had any trouble w/build-up.Like you I'm a very frugal person, too. I stopped using fabric softener. According to Patric (that's how he spells it) Richardson, the Laundry Guy, fabric softener is not good for laundry. It leaves a coating on it which attracts dirt ! He likes just plain old white vinegar which does not leave the smell of vinegar on the laundry. So, that's what I use now. He also goes by the Laundry Evangelist. Boy, does he ever know a lot about laundry & how to get out stains !! I'm 76, been doing laundry a long, long time....but I'll admit I've learned a few things from Patric.
Hope you have a great rest of 2024 !
I think the word you're looking for is surfactant (sur fac' tant)
Sir-fact-tent is how it’s pronounced. Not suff-a-gent.
Soap makes clothes dingy use detergents on clothes
SIR FEC TINT
Huge excesses of two water softeners reduce the concentrations of cleaning agents in Foca and reduce cleaning effectiveness. Waste of time and $.
Not in this video, borax and washing soda also help detergent work better, they're not JUST water softeners, that's why they can also be used to clean all over the house. And Foca is a detergent! This is the only diy laundry detergent recipe that will actually work.
@@dinarusso3320
Sounds like your research is based on reading marketing hype on the boxes. WS and borax soften water by forming precipitates with hard water contaminants. They are also bases. You are referring to them as cleaners when used as mild abrasives or damp pastes, not when dissolved. Yes, they may help to dissolve acidic stains, but that’s not why they are used in detergents. Foca is formulated to work as is; hence, diluting it only serves to reduce cleaning performance.
The hype on the boxes is written to get consumers like you to buy, not to explain how the product works or why. Your vague idea that it somehow helps detergents “work better” is exactly what they want you to believe.
@@dinarusso3320 But Foca probably contains a small amount of sodium carbonate (anhydrous washing soda) as a byproduct. Detergent makers used to add large amounts of washing soda and/or borax to cheapen the product, but such products became known to give inferior cleaning and accelerate the degradation of fabrics. There is no use adding these materials back in such large proportions. You'd be better off using nothing but the Foca, and just pretending to add those alkali, reducing the amount of Foca proportionally to the "nothing" you'd be adding.
@@goodmaro
Yes. Foca alone would be preferable, but these DIY enthusiasts like to bring to bear their vast knowledge of laundry science courtesy of clueless mommy bloggers.
@@goodmaro
Some detergents using liquid surfactants may have used WS or borax to distribute those ingredients in a mixture of solids. Magnesium sulfate is used today for that purpose. It’s not a filler because it serves as a carrier or distribution/processing aid. Additives like those are called builders.
Huh? Say what, music? Naaa
It's pronounced f "O" CA, not faka
That went way over my head...sorry
Sur fac tant
SurFACTant emphasise the word fact in surfactant
You don’t want to be responsible for appliance warranties being voided because of using homemade soap, this is a lot of liability for you
She just saved people from putting soap in their machine! Her recipe is just stretching actual laundry powder detergent with boosters!!
@@dinarusso3320
You can’t do so by just adding water softeners. That’s ludicrous.
ATTENTION "V" Would you print a recipe for Homemade Laundry Detergent without bar soap (need recipe for HE WASHER and granular Detergent). This is confusing to me since I am new at this. Please print as simple a recipe as possible. Thanks
In the drop down menu under the video there is a recipe
❤. Let me see what I can do
Jesus H Christ! Why does take over 16 minutes to spit out a freakin' recipe?! A dude would deliver this content in 3 minutes or less.
Such is UA-cam.
Quit being a troll and go watch someone else. These people do not need your negativity. Raise people up don’t tear them down. Some people may need to hear what she has to say.
@@gwenaverehendrix6668 Don't you see such criticism as useful? UA-cam is a great institution, but also overflowing with sprawling pieces by people who need more practice and help tightening their productions, and also with abuses of the medium by making a video where text would suffice and be more compact and easily searched and indexed. Plus the amount of copycat, totally redundant info on UA-cam is phenomenal, fed by people, especially children, who just want to put up videos but have nothing new to say.
People *do* need "negativity" like this. It may get them to stop doing what they're doing and instead do it better or do something else entirely.
Lol I fast forward all the talking
Funny. U could just look a recipe up instead of watching a video. Ha ha. This video is to a little of teaching not just a recipe.
You take to long
U can always look up a recipe instead of watching a video.
You just rambling on, this is suppose be about WHY YOU SHOULD NOT US BAR SOAP, BUT you talk more about why you should use bar soap
sur-FAC-tant
GLISS-er-in
Other than that, interested in trying this. I’ve avoided making my own laundry detergent because of the issues you noted. Thanks for sharing!
Your welcome
@@playinginthekitchenwithv7140 You’re, not your. You’re = you are.
@@FrankGutowski-ls8jt belligerent much
@@shelly8387
I am perfectionist.