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Homemade Laundry Soap: What You Need to Know – Plus 2 Recipes
3 big containers for $1.06 !! Making your own homemade laundry soap can save your household money. A lot of money. The batch I made that produced the three large containers shown here cost me just...
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Saving Money on Laundry in 2011
This was the year I learned how to Make My Own Laundry Soap. It was an experience that put me out of my comfort zone at first. Was I risking ruining my clothes just to save some money? Was it...
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Big Batch Homemade Powdered Laundry Soap
Have you thought about making your own homemade powdered laundry soap, but didn’t quite know how to begin? Then this is the recipe for you! There’s no measuring needed and if you can open up some...
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Homemade Stain Removers with Hydrogen Peroxide
I’ve been seeing more and more recipes lately for homemade cleaners using hydrogen peroxide. Why? Because hydrogen peroxide is like bleach’s friendlier cousin. It can whiten and disinfect with a...
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Answering Your Questions: The Chemistry of Big Batch Powdered Laundry Soap
One of the most popular recipes I’ve written about here at The Make Your Own Zone continues to be the Big Batch Powdered Laundry Soap recipe. In a nutshell, this recipes mixes together one complete...
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Homemade Laundry Soap or Detergent??
Have you proudly told someone you’re making your own homemade laundry “detergent”? If you have, you may want to rethink your choice of words. The majority of homemade recipes are for a laundry...
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Homemade Laundry Soap (Walmart knows what we’re doing!)
I was just going to make a quick little run into Walmart a couple weeks ago. I don’t even remember anymore what I went there to get. What I do remember was an “endcap” display that took me totally...
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Make Your Own Wrinkle Releaser Spray
Do you like to keep a bottle of the Downy Wrinkle Releaser spray around the house? It’s a handy product that you spray on clothing, smooth and stretch the material a little bit, let dry, and TA DA –...
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Homemade Solution for Whitening Your Whites
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all your white linens stayed just as fresh and pure and white as the day you bought them? Even if years went by? Oh yeah, that would indeed be awesome. Maybe in a perfect...
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Homemade Stain Remover – Another Success Story
I love a challenge. And this week I had another challenge thanks to Hungry Son. He came to me with one of his sweaters (a sweater with wool in it that needs handwashing by the way). “Ummm, Mom, do you...
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Peroxide and Dawn Stain Remover – Another Success Story
I’m still kind of surprised that two simple ingredients like Dawn dish soap and hydrogen peroxide can do such amazing things when it comes to laundry stains. I was doing my happy dance a few weeks ago...
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Homemade Laundry Soap – with Microwaved Ivory!
Today I used my microwave to make another batch of my homemade powdered laundry soap. What ?? Why would I be using the microwave ?? It turns out the microwave can be an interesting method to replace...
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Homemade Liquid Fabric Softener Recipes
Are you tired of the amount of money you spend buying liquid fabric softener? Well, there’s a solution. Save money and Make Your Own! When I started researching how to make fabric softener, I soon...
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Homemade Laundry Soap made with Dawn
Making your own laundry soap isn’t hard, but you do have to set aside a little time. And it’s not the time it takes to measure or mix anything either. That’s the quick part. It’s the time for that...
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What To Do About Clumpy Hard Borax And Washing Soda
When I started to make my own cleaning products and make my own laundry products a few years back, most of the ingredients I needed were pretty familiar to me. All that is except for a couple that...
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Homemade Stain Remover – Success Story #3
This isn’t the first time I’ve written a follow up story about my favorite homemade stain remover recipe. Or the second time. It is in fact the third time. I just can’t help myself. And that’s...
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Reduce Static Cling With DIY Dryer Balls
How do you deal with static cling? Are you in the habit of just tossing a dryer sheet into your dryer? I was too but maybe that wasn’t such a good idea. Apparently dryer sheets contain lots of...
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Unexpected Helpers for Laundry Stains
Sometimes I take a little breather and stop and think a bit about why I like finding ways to make my own stuff. And when I think about it, one word always keeps popping up that’s important to me:...
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Can You Mix Dawn Dish Soap With Bleach??
I must be in a laundry state of mind lately because today’s post is once again about a laundry question I’ve been thinking about. Last week I was researching some unexpected homemade stain removers...
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I think people fall into two groups when it comes to homemade laundry soap. One group is pretty much freaked out by the idea and says “Thanks... Read More » The post Homemade Laundry Soap: The...
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