This morning we made a batch of laundry soap and a batch of dish washing soap. The Fels-Naptha used for the laundry soap grated into a beautiful creamy yellow consistency. Similar to macaroni and cheese, but not as tempting to eat! Did you know that
Fels-Naptha has its roots in Yanceyville, North Carolina?!
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| Grated Fels-Naptha |
When we started to heat up the water with the Fels-Naptha it created mesmerizing clouds in the bottom of the pan.
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| Melting Fels-Naptha |
For not being a sudsy soap, it did make suds while adding the borax and the washing soda. Hopefully this will not cause any problems for our final product.
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| Mixing the ingredients and created some suds |
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| Pouring the ingredients and additional water into a bucket for the final step in the laundry soap |
We also made dish washing liquid soap from a recipe found online. One of the most fascinating occurrences was when we put white vinegar into the mixture of castile soap and water. It turned milky white and congealed!
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| Congealing dish soap after adding vinegar |
After we finished & calculated our costs we realized the use of castile soap in our recipe for the dish washing soap increased the cost so we did not really save a whole lot of money with this recipe. Perhaps if we find a recipe without castile soap in it, there might be a chance of it being a money saver. The laundry soap is certainly a money saver, and for the little amount of time it takes to put it all together, it is worth it!
