Homemade laundry detergent: advantages
In addition to being purchased at the supermarket, detergent can also be made at home, with considerable savings. Making your own laundry detergent will also allow you to respect the environment and the health of those we love. Very often, in fact, detergents sold in supermarkets contain surfactants or chemical substances that, in the long run, can have harmful effects on the body.
Not to mention the dangerous effects on the environment. In addition, homemade laundry detergent is hypoallergenic and does not contain preservatives.
It has been shown that French families, for example, do an average of 5 machine washes per week , for a total of 220 washes in a year. During these washes, 26 liters of liquid detergent and 40 kilos of powder are used.
At home, you can make all the detergents, even the one for washing your clothes in the washing machine. Let’s see how to make it for a year’s worth of laundry, using only two ingredients and spending less than ten euros (about 0.35 cents per liter).
Manufacturing process
The ingredients needed to prepare the liquid laundry detergent you will need for a year’s worth of laundry are:
Marseille soap flakes , 60 grams (average cost, around 0.40 cents)
sodium percarbonate , 15 grams (average cost 0.15 cents)
bicarbonate , 30 grams, (average cost 0.10 cents)
essential oil , a few drops (about 0.05 cents).
1 liter of hot water
1 liter of cold water
