• March 29, 2024

Make detergent yourself - it's that easy!

You need these ingredients:

  • 20 grams of essential soap
  • 20 grams of gall soap
  • 4 tablespoons washing soda (also? Pure soda?)
  • 4 tablespoons citric acid
  • 3 liters of water
  • as desired: 5 drops of essential oil

You also need:

  • Glass bottle or an alternative detergent container
  • Big bowl
  • whisk
  • Küchenraspel

Make detergent yourself? Preparation:

  1. The curd soap and the gall soap with a Grate small grater and mix with the soda in a bowl.
  2. Put on 1 liter of water and add the boiling water to the mixture.
  3. Strongly stir until the soap has dissolved.  
  4. Let cool down.
  5. The crowd would now have one pudding-like consistency to have. Now add a second liter of boiling water and stir vigorously again.
  6. After cooling the add third liter and again stir vigorously.
  7. Slowly add the four tablespoons of citric acid and, if you like, essential oil.
  8. Again to let it cool down and transfer to your empty container.

Tips for making

The preparation of the detergent is so simple. And you can use it like any other in your washing machine. Sometimes it is recommended to add vinegar as a rinse aid in the laundry. But you should be careful with that, because the vinegar may be attacking your washer. So: never give undiluted into the machine. The citric acid is especially advisable for very calcareous water, However, it also has a slightly bleaching effect, so it is especially suitable for white linen. Lemon, jasmine or lavender have proven to be an oil scent ? or whatever you like.



Make detergent yourself in powder form

If you prefer with Washing powder instead of liquid detergent you can easily change the recipe:

  • 100 grams of essential soap
  • 150 grams of soda
  • 150 grams of soda
  • about 100 grams of citric acid (powder)
  • as desired: essential oils

Washing powder is made so fast:

  1. Finely rub the core soap.
  2. Mix the ingredients together.
  3. Put the powder in an airtight container.

If you can not decide between liquid detergent and powder, or if you are wondering what the differences are, read the following article: Detergent: Which one should I take?



Incidentally, some ingredients are real all-rounder: Natron you can also wash and care for the curtains or use to clean the oven. Kernel soap and citric acid can remove sweat odor from clothing! So you do not even start to sweat, you can also do your deodorant yourself.

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Detergent, do it yourself