Make your own homemade eco-friendly detergent
Can you imagine being able to make your own soap, an environmentally friendly one, and add your favourite scent to it? Yes, we can. In gel or powder form, the necessary ingredients are very easy to find in any drugstore and with our advice DIY we will help you to make the best detergent.
Avoiding the easy is in fashion. The new consumer is no longer content with just anything. We no longer buy what we can get our hands on in the supermarket. We have a lot of information and making mistakes in our consumer habits has never been so... fatal. It is very difficult to be taken for a ride, gentlemen. We don't let ourselves be fooled by big campaigns or by what is on the it-girl of the moment.
Who cares? Now we search, we compare, and when we find something better, we buy it. And this search is time-consuming and not always fruitful. So, when we don't find it, what do we do? Well, we do it ourselves. That's why, among other things, it's fashionable to DIYit handmadeI'll cook it and I'll eat it. As well as the pleasure of having things just the way you want them, with your personal touch, yours and nobody else's.
Let's move this discourse to the realm of detergentsCan you imagine being able to make your own soapYou want to use an environmentally friendly one (no phosphates, for God's sake), add your favourite scent and save a bundle? Yes, we can. In gel or powder form, the necessary ingredients are easy to find in any drugstore.
Gel detergent:
A bar of soap (of your choice)
One cup borax (sodium borate)
One cup of soda (sodium carbonate)
A very large saucepan
A grater
A funnel
A long-handled spoon
Two empty containers for detergent
Grate the bar of soap into the bucket.
Fill one of the empty bottles with water and pour the water into the bucket along with the grated soap to heat the mixture until the soap dissolves. Then add the borax and soda. Bring it to the boil, until the mixture gels. Turn off the heat and add cold water (the same amount as the initial water) and mix very well.
You got it. Use half a cup per washer.
Detergent powder:
16 cups of soda
12 cups of borax
8 cups of grated Castile soap (or any other)
3 tablespoons lavender essential oil (or your choice)
Grate the soap (you can use a grater or a food processor) and mix all the ingredients in a large saucepan.
If you only use half a cup per washing machine, you'll have enough detergent for a year...
Ironing water:
One teaspoon lavender essential oil (or lemon, or grapefruit, or...)
4 tablespoons unflavoured vodka
3 ½ cups of water
In a bowl, mix the essential oil with the vodka. The alcohol serves as an emulsifier, allowing the essential oil and water to mix well. In a spray bottle, put the essential oil+vodka mixture and then the water. And mix. A lot and well, before each use.
