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About a decade ago, back in the ARfcom Ferfal days, I ran across a thread about making a kinda/sorta homebrew wash detergent using regular powder, 20 Mule Team, Borax and Fels Naptha. The stuff works great but we've gotten away from messing with it the last few years. Well Miz Kris got a wild hair to deep clean some clothes so we mixed up an impromptu batch and here are the results. Mind you, these clothes had already been thru our 3 yo washing machine 2x. These are just the clothes we wear regularly around here. Her barn clothes and my club clothes are about as dirty as our mess gets. Nothing so dirty as a construction guys clothes or some such and lookit it. šŸ˜ŸšŸ¤¢

These'll get rinsed, re-rinsed and ran thru the washing machine for a rinse-n-spin..
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Inglis said:
What is the formula and is it septic tank safe?
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Here's the recipe. Great stuff and no UV brighteners so you won't look radioactive to deer or NV.

Home Made Laundry Detergent

So this something that has saved me tons of money over the past few years. It's time for me to make another batch. Figured we needed a thread here for it too. For those that don't know, this stuff cleans better than anything I've ever bought and it's low foaming so it's high-efficiency washer...
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Johnny said:
Here's the recipe. Great stuff and no UV brighteners so you won't look radioactive to deer or NV.

Home Made Laundry Detergent

So this something that has saved me tons of money over the past few years. It's time for me to make another batch. Figured we needed a thread here for it too. For those that don't know, this stuff cleans better than anything I've ever bought and it's low foaming so it's high-efficiency washer...
carolinafirearmsforum.com
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Thanks
 
JimP42 said:
I that dirt or dye in the water?
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Dirt.. I coulda prolly planted a garden in the tub. These new washers ain't no count.
Grits said:
Make a years worth of laundry detergent for less than $25 and the stuff works. I need to get off my butt and start making it again.
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And that's me as well. It ain't like it's hard. I use an old food processor to grate the Fels-Naptha. the rest gets blended in.
Sorry things.. šŸ„“
NCLivingBrit said:
Bottle that and sell it on OnlyFans!
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There's prolly some sick little sub sect that'd want it.. šŸ˜†
beamernc said:
We have been making and using this for about 12-15 years.
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We've never tried the liquid version. That might be a bit more useful for other things as well..
I've lost the link to the old ARfcom thread. Thanks for posting the recipe! šŸ¤ šŸ‘
 
NCLivingBrit said:
Bottle that and sell it on OnlyFans!
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Gotta step it up. They making beer with theirā€¦ yeastā€¦ now. šŸ¤¢

We made a big batch of the liquid soap years ago, lasted a long time and worked well but it separated something awful and was difficult to get mixed back up. Perhaps an error we made.
 
OutLore said:
Anyone know if adding a squirt or two of permethrin will have any effect on these recipes? I'd like to have something that will at least have a small anti-tick property to it.
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I can't conceive that doing anything but wasting permethrin. The percentages just won't compute.

The method I follow, .5% soak, good for 6 weeks or 6 washes, has proven extremely effective. Compared to an average of 20 other dudes in my camp that either don't know or won't listen. They are all constantly getting eaten up by chiggers and picking ticks off of each other like chimpanzees, I have had zero ticks found and zero chiggers bites over the last 4+ years of a minimum of 8 weeks a year rolling around in the woods playing with the Army.
 
I originally did the liquid and used it but have since recently went to the below recipes just because its easier to me to make and keep. It works well and the wife was happy and seems to like it better. It was funny our washer would occasionally get to smelling when using store bought and you would have to try to clean it. Since switching to the below the smell has gone away and hasn't been back. Beware the large batch makes a good size portion so plan accordingly for mixing but works well for my household of 5 and last a long time.

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Johnny said:
I can't conceive that doing anything but wasting permethrin. The percentages just won't compute.

The method I follow, .5% soak, good for 6 weeks or 6 washes, has proven extremely effective. Compared to an average of 20 other dudes in my camp that either don't know or won't listen. They are all constantly getting eaten up by chiggers and picking ticks off of each other like chimpanzees, I have had zero ticks found and zero chiggers bites over the last 4+ years of a minimum of 8 weeks a year rolling around in the woods playing with the Army.
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That's what I do now, but I'm not sure if these recipes would shorten the period of effectiveness. You're right though, thinking about it adding it to the mixture would likely use way too much.
 
Pretty much everybody uses way too
much detergent in every wash load.

Run your load through another cycle after you wash and don't add any detergent. You'll be amazed at the Sud action from the residual crap left over.
 
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