Laundry Bar Question

[rodeogal]

Please forgive me if this is somewhere on the forum. I tried to search and even looked at all the thread titles MANY pages back.

Do you make a laundry bar? Do you use coconut oil and lard, or do you use only lard? Do you use something else? I have found several recipes on the internet, but not sure which to tackle. 100% lard would be very cheap!
Thanks!!

 

[Crocoturtle]

I'm going to tag onto this thread and say that I just yesterday made 100% coconut soap with 0% superfat for laundry purposes and for the most part it came out gorgeous and perfect, feels just like Charlie's soap.

Question though, how long do you let your laundry soap set before cutting? I usually cut my soaps after 36-48 hours but this soap I cut after 23 hours and it was so brittle I had the hardest time cutting it and wound up breaking a lot of it. (fortunately I planned to shread most of it anyway.)

 

[CaliChan]

Ive been thinking of doing a laundry bar that is 70% lard and 30% coconut. But if you have an HE washer then i would just do 100% lard. HE washers need low suds .

 

[chicklet]

I made 100% lard soap for laundry a few months ago. It does get very hard quickly. It makes very pretty white bars that smell (to me anyway) like they might be 99 and 44 one hundredths percent pure soap. I don't remember exactly the time frame as far as curing, but I know I didn't let them cure as long as other soap. After grating with a box grater, I spread the soap out in the lid of a box that holds a case of copy paper and let the soap cure in that form a few days. After that I ran the grated soap thru a food processor to get it to a fine powder. All that may have not been necessary but I had read that soap flakes did not dissolve well in cold water. This does so I will probably do the same thing next time.

 

[hoegarden]

I did my laundry bar using 70% CO, 20% PO and 10% rice bran. No lye discount or superfatting.

 

[Thomask]

Here is a recipe ive been working on. I use fels naptha bar soap, but am going to try my own bar soap instead next time. Ill use lard or coconut oil.

2 gallon bucket
6 cups water
1/2 c washing soda
1/4 c borax
1/2 bar fels naptha
35 drops lemon EO
Water to fill bucket

Fill bucket with hot tap water

Remove 6 cups and boil on stove

Add grated fels naptha ( or homemade bar soaps ) to the boiling water and stir untill melted. Add the dry ingredients to the hot water in the bucket and stir well. Then add the melted soap. Add fragrance oil after. I only use enough fragrance oil to make the batch smell good, not to come out in my clothes. Very gentle. No sudsing at all. I may double the washing soda and remove the borax in my next batch.

I know the original poster probably found something in the mean time, but this thread came up on search, so i thought i might chime in incase people are still looking!

Thomas

 

[CaliChan]

Please forgive me if this is somewhere on the forum. I tried to search and even looked at all the thread titles MANY pages back.

Do you make a laundry bar? Do you use coconut oil and lard, or do you use only lard? Do you use something else? I have found several recipes on the internet, but not sure which to tackle. 100% lard would be very cheap!
Thanks!!

It depends on the type of washer you have. HE washers dont use as much water so they require a low suds soap so it would be better just to use lard with a 0% superfat. But if you have a regular washer i would add coconut oil. Thats what im planning on doing. (my grandmother-inlaw has an HE washer which made me want to look that up)

--Oops i forgot i already posted here. haha i should probably get some sleep

 

[hoegarden]

I made my laundry soap and formula is 70% CO, 20% PO and 10% RBO. I use it for handwashing.

Do you guys means that you will throw the soap bar into the washing machine?

 

[lizflowers42]

I made my laundry soap and formula is 70% CO, 20% PO and 10% RBO. I use it for handwashing.

Do you guys means that you will throw the soap bar into the washing machine?

No, they mean shredding for laundry soap.