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Homemade Borax Laundry Detergent

popular laundry tool for the Amish!
Course DIY Project

Ingredients
  

  • ½ cup Borax soap
  • 11 pints cold soft water
  • 9 pints melted grease (just melted enough to pour)
  • 2 cans lye Instructions aundry. 

Instructions
 

  • Dissolve the soap in the cold soft water.
  • Add grease and stir.
  • Then gradually add the lye.
  • Stir until it forms soap. Let it set in dish pans and cool. After it's cold then cut it in chunks. Works best when you use soft water to do your laundry.