Homemade Laundry soap

So I have been making my homemade laundry soap for about a year now! I love it it is so cheap and easy to make... I started making my own when I chose to use cloth diapers! They need to be washed in an all natural soap... No special additives!

Well I use the following ingredients

1 cup Borax
1 cup Arm and Hammer Washing soda
2 Ivory bar soap or 1 Zote (I don't usually use that one... Seems like it leaves a strange color on the clothes)
1/2 cup baking soda
And Fragrance (to make it smell good) I use plain fragrance for soap if you have sensitive skin I would use an essential oil!

So 1st you have to grate your bar's of soap
Then in a sauce pan you add the grated soap and 4 cups of water

Then you take a 5 gal. bucket and fill it half way with hot tap water and add the borax, arm and hammer washing soda, and baking soda

Once the grated soap is complete dissolved you then add it to your 5 gal bucket.
Then fill up the bucket the rest of the way with hot water

Let sit over night

Stir in the morning add your fragrance what ever kind you like to your taste!

Then add the 1/2 soap and 1/2 water to a rinsed out older laundry soap bottle... I use my old one from those leading competitors... The fancy ones with the spout...

Then to wash I use about 1 cup or so for my laundry but I have smelly boys you might not need as much!

We also hang our clothes on a line outside in the beautiful sunshine... We are lucky to be having such nice weather these days!