16.04.2025

How to make homemade laundry soap

By Vitia

Without a doubt, nowadays the supermarket offers us a wide variety of cleaning products to suit everyone’s taste. However, in the past this was very different, in fact housewives had to manage as best they could to remove stains from clothes.

At that time they used cornstarch a lot that acted as bleach, it was really a trick that left their clothes impeccable. But fortunately times have changed in this sense, we have at our fingertips any product that we want.

Despite this, homemade solutions are still an option for many families. It is about making high-quality, high-yielding and economical homemade soap.

This recipe is to make powerful liquid soap, it is a combination of ingredients that will result in an excellent quality soap to wash clothes and other parts of the house.

The secret is to make the right choice of ingredients:

Recipe for making powerful liquid soap

Let’s look at the ingredients that are required:

Ingredients

  • 200 gr. of soap powder
  • 5 tbsp. of cornstarch
  • 1 liter of boiling water
  • 2 tbsp. baking soda
  • 5 tbsp. of alcohol vinegar
  • 3.5 liters of water
  • 500 ml. of detergent

Procedure

  1. To start, mix the soap powder and cornstarch well in a large bowl.
  2. Then, add 1 liter of boiling water and with the help of a wooden spoon dissolve the dry ingredients in the hot water. This action is key in preparation.
  3. When we get the mixture to reach a homogeneous texture, it is time to add the baking soda but without stopping stirring until it dissolves.
  4. Now we add alcohol vinegar, essential to neutralize the bad smell of clothes and humidity. It also acts as a degreaser and removes stubborn stains.
  5. Next step, we add the 3.5 liters of water at room temperature but always stirring and mixing is very important. As we know in the industries they use the industrial mixer but we do it in an artisanal way, so when doing it manually it is essential to stir well all the ingredients that we are adding.
  6. Finally, it is time to add the kitchen detergent of any brand, mix it and let the liquid soap sit for approximately 12 hours.
  7. The next day, we will observe that the mixture has reached the desired consistency and is ready to be packaged and reserved for daily laundry use.

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In this way we have our homemade laundry soap ready, without secrets but with excellent performance!

Councils:

To keep in mind, this simple but very effective recipe will not only help us in the household economy due to its performance and low cost when manufacturing it, but we can also sell homemade soap.

Without a doubt, it is a good investment to do this and contribute to increasing income in the household.