'DIY' Laundry Detergent - A Dry Cleaners Comprehensive Review 

omg yes!!

Yeah my mom and grandma use a food processor to grate the soap too! haha

Thank you for the love, it means a lot to me

3tbsp 40% developer (12% peroxide) in laundry is the cheapest way!

Agreed, Im glad to see people trying to break the wheel but some additional teaching is needed

Appreciate the love

Glad it was helpful!

so glad youre here

Thank you Eve, that means a lot to me :)

of course! its a better system anyways

hehehe I'm Zach! appreciate the love, have a great day :)

Finally!! Someone debunked the homemade laundry detergent!! My lady and I go back and forth with this; she makes her own detergent, and swears by it. I use regular detergent, and feel cleans better. Hey - I have to ask. You have Ariel Doble Poder liquid behind you! That’s what I’ve been using! What do you think of it?

so nice to have you here!!!

I will review it but it's amazing, currently my third favorite when it comes to stain removal. Plus you cannot beat the size and price

Sounds like dye and perfume are a no go for your family. Try free and clear products

Try adding some powdered boosters into the drum also. I like using 1 part borax 1 part washing soda and 2 parts sodium percarbonate. This should help move things along. I appreciate the kind words as well

finally..... took way too long

very glad youre here, thank you for the support

Id try swapping out those laundry bars for a modern powdered detergent. Easiest way to avoid build up and nonsense!

This is the laundry gel recipe I use (from a defunct blog Vintage Kids in a Modern World and the commentary is hers). I add borax in when I wash and vinegar in the rinse cycle. Our water is horribly hard 1 C. liquid castile soap 1/2 c. table salt 1.5 c. washing soda hot water 1 gallon bucket with a lid -mix the salt and washing soda with 2 c. hot water. ( it won’t completely dissolve, but will help break it down.) Then, in a separate container (I use a quart mason jar) add your liquid castile soap into about 3 c. hot water. (SIDE NOTE: this is an important extra step - don’t skip it! you’ll thank me later! There is a mild chemical reaction that takes place between the salt, soda and castile soap that causes the castile soap to gel into large clumps. By diluting it first, you are minimizing the initial reaction and it makes it MUCH easier to stir and mix thoroughly.) Then add the soap/water mixture into the salt/soda mixture. Pour slowly and stir constantly. The castile soap will start to gel instantly, so make sure you stir it really well. Add additional hot water until you’ve reached 1 gallon. After this, you are good to go! However, when I have the time, I let it cool on my kitchen counter and stir it as it sets up. As it cools, it will start to thicken and gel. I use a wire whisk and stir it every so often. This makes it easier to use, because otherwise you will get large soap clumps when you scoop it out to use it. When you are ready to wash your clothes, I recommend 1/2-3/4 c. of Laundry Soap for a large, lightly soiled load. I’ve read on other blogs that some people can get away with 1/4 cup. my family stinks. we need more than that, and I think 3/4 c. does a great job for an average load. However, if I am washing work clothes, I bump up the amount to one cup of soap per large load. and there you have it!! it sounds way more complicated than it really is - I make it in less than 5 minutes, and then stir it when I remember to! AND this costs around $0.02-4 p/load! oh - and remember how I said that I would never use the store brand again. well. I fudged and bought a bottle on sale over the holidays, when things were SO hectic that I gave in to convenience and grabbed a bottle (at least it was unscented….) our clothes STUNK. never gonna do that again. I hate doing laundry enough that doing the same load TWICE just about did me in. UPDATE! I got a great reader question, asking how my breakdown p/load was so low, so here is my mad-math-skills, for your reading pleasure - and also a CORRECTION! When I buy my liquid castile soap, I can find it at my local grocery store for approximately $13 for 32oz, my washing soda is $3 for 55oz. and my good ole regular table salt is $0.53 for 26oz. So here is my breakdown of my hard costs p/ one gallon batch:

Absolutely, any other stains?

Agreed, that would be a fun project though

I know this is 4 months later but as a chemical engineer surfactants are incredibly difficult to manufacture and require very specialist equipment. Their feedstock chemicals would not be available to an average consumer.

There are liquid diy options that use castile soap which could be a good base option to build on.

Soap is a surfactant! Coconut oil soap has a cleaning grade of 92 out of 100. It makes really "harsh" soap, which is why it's usually made with up to 20 percent superfat if used as a body soap. For comparison, Castille soap made from olive oil has a cleaning grade of 2 or 3 (if my memory serves correctly). Pure coconut oil soap with zero percent superfat (DIY at home) makes a fantastic laundry soap. Either as liquid soap or dissolve the flakes in hot water before using. Then wash clothes in cold water.

Sals Suds (54%) performed better than Dr Bronners original (50%) when it comes to stain removal in laundry. Both performed worse than I expected. Both finished in the D-Tier (50-55% stain removal)

​@The Clean Club have you Tested Puracy laundry detergent? Curious where it falls on the board. I love laundry product testing haha, glad I found your channel.

the tide ultra oxi powder is prob. color safe.

so youre taking a solid, shredding it, mixing it with a liquid, drying it, and then turning it back into a solid? im very confused as to how that helps

@@cleanfreaks you aren't shredding it. You only cut in into smaller pieces because of the sheer amount of expanding the right soap does in the microwave. If you wish to microwave a whole bar, you would be unpleasantly surprised to find the whole microwave filled with burning hot cloud soap. The microwave expands the correct soap, not like hand soaps that liquefy. The correct soap will turn into a "cloud", which can be crumbled easily into dust.

Ivory soap is what I used, and it expands quite a lot. After you remove it from the microwave, it is hot and must cool/settle before you can crumble it with your hands.

whats your recipe?

ammonia is a very helpful laundry booster for very smelly clothing or items soiled with urine / body waste. id add 1/4 cup to the drum of the machine for things like that, but i wouldn't use it for most loads

exactly, adding it to a DIY recipe negates its effectiveness

most reg soap bars have oils and scents in them and are not as good as Zote or Fels Naptha. Both those laundry/cleaning bars are made without extra ingredients (oils and scents) and that is why Zote and Fels Naptha are great soaps to make your own laundry detergent. Fels Naptha is great for other things as well. I also like the smell.

Hello! Why do you want to make it a liquid?

@@cleanfreaks Unfortunately I live in apartment with some pretty shoddy machines (at least they're free!). I don't trust them to dissolve the powder and clean adequately, but they seems to do fine with liquid. Maybe an issue with water temp control...

I made my own franken powder. I added in persil, dollar tree oxiclean, tide and ariel ( all powdered). Put in 1.5 tbsp per load but treat stains before the wash. Clothes come out super clean.

below average, great company though

I remember hearing that they use more effective enzymes to clean the clothes.

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Baking soda has the same effect as the washing soda but only worse. They are similar compounds sodium carbonate vs sodium bicarbonate. Where washing soda just does the same job in your detergent but only better. Baking soda( bicarbonate) can be a substitute but you would have to add more.

well said david

1/4 should be plenty, maybe go up to 1/2 cup for soiled or large loads

@@cleanfreaks Thank you!!!

sodium percaronbate is one of the main active ingredients in OxiClean, however OxiClean has many more. So objectively, OxiClean will be better.

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Like a general laundry how to video?

@@cleanfreaks haha yes, I feel like it sounds really simple, but I know you’ve got some great tips.

below average, id consider switching it up

@cleanfreaks thank you for reply,I am planning to go with kirkland what do you say

Can you please respond

I like everything but the Zote. I'd much rather you use Zote as a pretreatment for specific stains and then use an actual detergent as your main cleaning engine.

So does bleach! Bleach should be banned

I tried the liquid persil. It ruined a pair of my best jeans. It bleached big spots on the jeans.

@@sharonlatour6230 how much did you use? I use the ultra clean persil.

@@sharonlatour6230 how much did you use?

Put the trousers into the freezer for a while and then peel the gum off.

its average

hand wash in a very mild detergent, like Ivory. you could add baking soda to the wash water. rinse well, and hang to dry

carbona

no, seinfeld hates dry cleaners. he'd disown me

I never use fabric softener. The chemical residue has been repeatedly shown to be a health risk. 2 wool dry balls soften and remove static.

how about laundry soap bar instead

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great brand, henkel (who owns purex) also makes persil and all