In search of an HE (High Efficiency) laundry soap recipe

[Obsidian]

I did grate it by hand but I got a salad shooter recently, best invention ever.

 

[Stacie]

In that recipe you linked to, she says she grates her soap with a food processor. I'm not sure about the hardness of he Fels Naptha, though. This CO soap is hardhardhard. Ah well, now I don't have a food processor. The salad shooter looks like a possibility...and probably cheaper than another food processor. Now that I destroyed his big food processor, I'm a little leery of buying another thing to destroy...

 

[Obsidian]

Check thrift stores. I've never grated 100% CO soap so I'm not sure how it will do in a salad shooter. I'd probably stick with hand grating the really hard bars, it only take a few minutes. fels naptha is softer, grates really easy.

 

[Seawolfe]

I use a hand grater on my 100% coconut oil soap. It's a box type grater and I grate on the larger holes. It takes less than half an hour to grate up what I need to fill a big coffee tub with mix that lasts a few months. The soap is hard enough that I would be afraid to try a food processor, but it's not that bad.

 

[Dahila]

On the third or fourth day I grate CO laundry soap , it is still soft then let it cure on huge plastic plate, moving it a bit every day or when I am downstairs in laundry room. When it cures enough like 3-4 weeks I put it in the food processor with borax and washing soda and baking soda.
Yesterday i gave a box of that to my son, his eczema is not so bad anymore. I left some bars, it seems to work well with the sponge for hand washing dishes
HE-high efficiency washers top and front loaders require low suds and what I make is low suds. I am using it for a year and have no problem with it.

 

[CanaDawn]

Grate your soap by hand before it's fully cured, and then it powders easily when it's dry and is much much easier to grate than when it's hard.

 

[Stacie]

Grating before it's cured...brilliant. Thanks!

 

[seven]

just my luck. all the soap bits and ends that i want to use are fully cured.

has anyone here tried making laundry powder using the end cuts that have SF?