{"id":318,"date":"2011-09-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/?p=318"},"modified":"2025-08-05T12:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T10:20:48","slug":"homemade-detergent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/hogar\/detergente-casero","title":{"rendered":"Make your own homemade eco-friendly detergent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Make your own homemade eco-friendly detergent<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a> we will help you to make the best detergent.<\/h2>\n\n\n
19 September 2011 by Monapart<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em> of the moment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who cares? Now we search, we compare, and when we find something better, we buy it. And this search is time-consuming<\/em> 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 DIY<\/strong>it handmade<\/em><\/strong>I'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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let's move this discourse to the realm of detergents<\/a><\/strong>Can you imagine being able to make your own soap<\/strong>You 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gel detergent:<\/strong>
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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Grate the bar of soap into the bucket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Make<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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