I finally made the laundry soap from the recipe I found here a couple weeks ago. The soap is super inexpensive (compared with regular laundry soap), and easy to make!! For anyone interested, these are the things you'll need to gather to make the soap:
*1 bar of soap (any kind you
want)
*1 cup of
Borax
*1 cup of washing
soda
*a big pot ( that holds more
than 2 gallons)
*a
grater
*a
funnel
*a long
spoon
*2 empty gallon
jugs/containers
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These are the three ingrediants. You grate the bar of soap into
a large pan, add one gallon of water and melt the soap. Once the soap is
melted, you add one cup of the washing soda and borax each, and
then bring to a boil. Add one gallon of cool water, and then use a funnel
to pour into your 2 gallon jugs.
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| Grating the soap. |
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| Soap is super easy to grate- it took less than five minutes. |
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| Beautiful grated lavender soap. |
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| The soap melted in about 10 minutes. |
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| 2 Gallons of Homemade Soap:) |
One a different topic, I have managed to keep all of my little seedlings alive so far! I'm wondering if I started them too early, as I'm sure I won't be planting anything outside for at least another seven weeks. Hopefully, they will hang in there until then, and be big and strong and ready to produce tons of veges when the time comes.
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| Cucumber plants |
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| Under grow lights- close up of butternut squash and tomato plants. |
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| In the garage, under grow lights. Everything is going well so far. |
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| Tomato plants in the window. |
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| Jessy, looking reproachfully at me while I make my soap, wanting some outside and playing time. |
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| Fish pond in my kitchen. Needed to take a pic, because I finally did some maintenance, and it looks nice again:) |
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| Fish pond |
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| Derrick folding laundry. Because what wife's heart isn't melted a lot by seeing this? :) |
