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Make Your Own Laundry Soap the Simple Green Way!
Wondering how to make your own laundry soap?
It’s ridiculously simple to make your own laundry soap if you have a bottle of Simple Green All Purpose Cleaner in your house! Last weekend, I went to the garage to do laundry and found I had run out of my usual Tide laundry soap.
A quick google search for “how to make your own laundry soap” suggested trying Simple Green All Purpose Cleaner instead of laundry detergent in my washing machine. I took a deep breath and tried it out, and what do you know, it worked!
All you need to do is keep a measuring cup next to your washing machine – measure out a scant 2 oz of simple green into the basin as it’s filling with water. And that’s it, just add your clothes and you’re good to go! I read this method isn’t recommended for high-efficiency washing machines, so beware. I think it has something to do with the foaming nature of the all purpose cleanser.
The chances are pretty good I’ll run out of laundry soap again someday, so let’s chat! What other methods of making your own laundry soap have you tried? What’s your favorite, and what didn’t work at all?
How to Make Your Own Laundry Soap
Update 1/2/13
Since the writing of this post, we moved and had to purchase a new washing machine. This new one is a high efficiency (he) washing machine. Upon researching if we could use our old laundry soap in the he high efficiency washing machine, we found out you CAN NOT. The basic reason is standard washing machine detergent is sudsy, while he high efficiency laundry detergent is NOT sudsy. If you use sudsy soap in your non sudsy washing machine, you can break it and void the warranty. So – THIS SIMPLE GREEN LAUNDRY DETERGENT TUTORIAL IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR HE HIGH EFFICIENCY MACHINES.
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6 responses to “Make Your Own Laundry Soap the Simple Green Way!”
I can barely get laundry done when I do have detergent on hand! Sadly, I’m not a huge fan of the way Simple Green smells so I don’t know if I could handle having my clothes with their signature fragrance. But I’m glad it worked!
You know what… I never liked how it smelled for the longest time. But nowadays something has changed. I actually kind of sort of really liked how my laundry smelled coming out of the wash!
i used it all the time when my husband was logging. He would come home with pine pitch, bar oil, diesel and dirt caked on his clothes. an overnight soak then straight in to a cold water wash, with nothing else added. i didn’t like the smell, but it sure did clean those clothes!
Recently, I asked my handyman, who was doing work for me, to pick up some Simple Green to clean the kitchen floor in a rental. He came back with enough Simple Green to clean a village and then some. So here I have a whole gallon of the concentrate, and don’t know what to do with it. I did use it full strength on my linoleum floor at home, and it did a decent job, after I let it soak for awhile and added some water. So now I know I can use it in my laundry. I am not crazy about the smell either, but I hang my wash out, and that should help dissipate any lingering smell. With two ounces per tub, I can’t imagine it will be that noticeable, anyway. I am getting ready to toss in some wash, as soon as my cat decides he will get out of the tub and let me do so. Thanks for the tips.
You’re so welcome! I wonder if Simple Green will ever come out with a different scent?
I used simple green along with 1/2 cup baking soda and there was no scent of simple green on the finished laundry!