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Laundry Soap

What's the worst part of making your own laundry soap?

Well, for me it's grating the soap!

I absolutely love using homemade laundry soap, but the

 grating part tends to be a little time consuming.

Solutions?

#1 - You know that the kids love to do it, so let them!

#2 - When I have the time, I grate up a lot of soap and store

it in a ziplock bag.

I love it when it's time to make laundry soap and I just have

to reach for that ziplock bag!

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{ 12:29 , Monday, April 9, 2007 } { Posted by homesteadinthemaking }

We too, let the kids do it a lot of the time.
Blessings,
Trixi

grating soap

{ 02:28 , Monday, April 9, 2007 } { Posted by rashel }

I cheat and use my food processor. I usually do a few bars at a time and I have also found that if I unwrap the soap and let it dry out a bit, it grates better.
Rashel

Agreed!

{ 02:30 , Monday, April 9, 2007 } { Posted by teapots66 }

I hate the grating, too - and I've found the dry detergent clogs up my front-loader, causing it to leak all over the place! My next option would be to cook the stuff into a gel, and I haven't been that ambitious lately, heh heh! -chris