Soap

I got to do something really awesome today. I made laundry soap. I used 1 bar of Fels-Naptha soap, 1 cup Borax and 1 cup washing soda. We (a friend was doing it with me) grated the bar of soap in a food porcessor, and then changed blades, added the other ingredients and ground it up together. Voila! That is the soap. It only takes 1 tablespoon of the soap per load, and 2 tablespoons for heavily soiled loads. It equals about 52 loads of laundry. I made enough for 104 loads. The really awesome thing about it is that the price per load works out to just under half a cent per load. Compare that to 22 cents per load! To get a bulk bottle of  Purex at Sam's club it costs about $22, and that is still more cost effective than Tide Free and Clear. With this, I can save about $60 or more a year in laundry costs!