Save $ on Homemade Soap

Everyone washes clothes and the soap can be expensive especially if you have to wash a lot. However, there is a way to make your own soap for very very cheap and it works just as good if not better than the store bought. It's called "Duggar" soap from the TV show "The Duggars".


What you need:

• 5 Gallon Bucket
• Super Washing Soda (Arm and Hammer)
• Fels Naptha Bar Soap
• Box of Borax
• Funnel
• Cheese Grater 
• Empty Soap Dispenser or Empty Water Gallon Container
• Saucepan 
• Measuring Cups
• Large Paint Stick (regular size paint stick will work too)

First thing you want to do is take your saucepan and fill it with water and begin to heat it over medium heat. Take your cheese grater and begin to grate the Fels Naptha bar soap into tiny pieces into the saucepan. When this is complete stir the soap until it is fully dissolved. 

Then take your 5 gallon bucket and fill it halfway full with warm water. Take your saucepan with the soap and pour it into the bucket. Then add one cup of Super washing soda. And a half cup of Borax. Take your paint stick and begin to stir the solution. Then you want to add more water until you get pretty close to the top of the 5 gallon bucket. Keep stirring the solution until is mixed really well. After the solution has been mixed put the lid on top of the 5 gallon bucket and let it sit over night.


The next morning the solution should have congealed. Take your paint stick and stir it really really well until it is mixed. Now, take your empty container or containers and fill them halfway using your measuring cups and funnel into the containers. Do not fill them full. Fill them halfway and then top them off with water until they are full.


Whenever you use the soap shake the container really well to mix the solution. That's it!!


For a top load machine use 5/8 cup. And a front loader use 1/4 cup per load. This works in H.E machines as well. To give your soap more of a scent you can use essential oils like tea tree oil, rosemary, lavender etc..

I personally don't add more water to my empty containers. Instead I just fill them halfway full and then shake them really good before use to mix. Then I just use a little less than I should.

This will no doubt save you money. One batch match 10 gallons of soap. And when you need to make more just buy another bar of the Fels Naptha. The super washing powder and borax should last you a while.