#diy laundry soap

[facethejourney]

Home-made Laundry Soap that smells great and cleans your clothes: DIY your laundry soap

Their are two household chores I absolutely hate to do.  #1 Dishes! That’s a whole other blog post. #2 Laundry! I’m a stay at home mom. So laundry is absolutely a huge part of my day. But I’ll be honest with you guys. I will put it off until the basket is crawling out of the bathroom to the washer on its own. When I tell you I hate to do laundry, I’m not exaggerating in the least. It’s not so…

[northbirdblog]

Homemade Laundry Soap

Try making some of this Homemade Laundry Soap! It's easy to make, using natural ingredients, and gentle on sensitive skin!

[everydayhalfling]

Reasons to make your own laundry detergent:

Save money!

Decrease your plastic consumption!

Control what is going into your detergent!

Recipe and the financial break down are under the cut:

HOMEMADE LAUNDRY DETERGENT 1 bar Fels Naptha (or similar) soap 1C Washing Soda (165g) 1C Borax (165g) 5Ga Water (19L)

Grate the soap bar. Heat one gallon (3.8L) of water on medium-low. Add the grated soap bar and stir. Allow the soap to completely melt. Add the washing soda and the borax, stir. Allow mixture to simmer until ingredients are dissolved. Pour the soap mixture into a five gallon container. Add the remaining water. Use only hot water for this, to prevent soap from congealing. Stir the detergent well and you're done!

THE FINANCIAL BREAKDOWN* Initial costs: $1.25 Fels Naptha $15.00 Washing soda, 1 box (55oz) $9.00 Borax, 1 box (65oz) $25.25 TOTAL

5 Gallons of Detergent: $1.25 Fels Naptha $2.18 Washing Soda $1.11 Borax $4.54 TOTAL

*At the time of posting, 2022/12/12; American Dollars

[samwisethewitch]

Homemaking, gardening, and self-sufficiency resources that won't radicalize you into a hate group

It seems like self-sufficiency and homemaking skills are blowing up right now. With the COVID-19 pandemic and the current economic crisis, a lot of folks, especially young people, are looking to develop skills that will help them be a little bit less dependent on our consumerist economy. And I think that's generally a good thing. I think more of us should know how to cook a meal from scratch, grow our own vegetables, and mend our own clothes. Those are good skills to have.

Unfortunately, these "self-sufficiency" skills are often used as a recruiting tactic by white supremacists, TERFs, and other hate groups. They become a way to reconnect to or relive the "good old days," a romanticized (false) past before modern society and civil rights. And for a lot of people, these skills are inseparably connected to their politics and may even be used as a tool to indoctrinate new people.

In the spirit of building safe communities, here's a complete list of the safe resources I've found for learning homemaking, gardening, and related skills. Safe for me means queer- and trans-friendly, inclusive of different races and cultures, does not contain Christian preaching, and does not contain white supremacist or TERF dog whistles.

Homemaking/Housekeeping/Caring for your home:

Making It by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen [book] (The big crunchy household DIY book; includes every level of self-sufficiency from making your own toothpaste and laundry soap to setting up raised beds to butchering a chicken. Authors are explicitly left-leaning.)

Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair by Mercury Stardust [book] (A guide to simple home repair tasks, written with rentals in mind; very compassionate and accessible language.)

How To Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis [book] (The book about cleaning and housework for people who get overwhelmed by cleaning and housework, based on the premise that messiness is not a moral failing; disability and neurodivergence friendly; genuinely changed how I approach cleaning tasks.)

Gardening

Rebel Gardening by Alessandro Vitale [book] (Really great introduction to urban gardening; explicitly discusses renter-friendly garden designs in small spaces; lots of DIY solutions using recycled materials; note that the author lives in England, so check if plants are invasive in your area before putting them in the ground.)

Country/Rural Living:

Woodsqueer by Gretchen Legler [book] (Memoir of a lesbian who lives and works on a rural farm in Maine with her wife; does a good job of showing what it's like to be queer in a rural space; CW for mentions of domestic violence, infidelity/cheating, and internalized homophobia)

"Debunking the Off-Grid Fantasy" by Maggie Mae Fish [video essay] (Deconstructs the off-grid lifestyle and the myth of self-reliance)

Sewing/Mending:

Annika Victoria [YouTube channel] (No longer active, but their videos are still a great resource for anyone learning to sew; check out the beginner project playlist to start. This is where I learned a lot of what I know about sewing.)

Make, Sew, and Mend by Bernadette Banner [book] (A very thorough written introduction to hand-sewing, written by a clothing historian; lots of fun garment history facts; explicitly inclusive of BIPOC, queer, and trans sewists.)

Sustainability/Land Stewardship

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer [book] (Most of you have probably already read this one or had it recommended to you, but it really is that good; excellent example of how traditional animist beliefs -- in this case, indigenous American beliefs -- can exist in healthy symbiosis with science; more philosophy than how-to, but a great foundational resource.)

Wild Witchcraft by Rebecca Beyer [book] (This one is for my fellow witches; one of my favorite witchcraft books, and an excellent example of a place-based practice deeply rooted in the land.)

Avoiding the "Crunchy to Alt Right Pipeline"

Note: the "crunchy to alt-right pipeline" is a term used to describe how white supremacists and other far right groups use "crunchy" spaces (i.e., spaces dedicated to farming, homemaking, alternative medicine, simple living/slow living, etc.) to recruit and indoctrinate people into their movements. Knowing how this recruitment works can help you recognize it when you do encounter it and avoid being influenced by it.

"The Crunchy-to-Alt-Right Pipeline" by Kathleen Belew [magazine article] (Good, short introduction to this issue and its history.)

Sisters in Hate by Seyward Darby (I feel like I need to give a content warning: this book contains explicit descriptions of racism, white supremacy, and Neo Nazis, and it's a very difficult read, but it really is a great, in-depth breakdown of the role women play in the alt-right; also explicitly addresses the crunchy to alt-right pipeline.)

These are just the resources I've personally found helpful, so if anyone else has any they want to add, please, please do!

[survivalpreps]

All natural ivy laundry soap!

From- theflowerandthethorn.com

[the-learning-hub]

DIY Projects for Zero Waste Living: Easy and Sustainable Solutions for Your Home

DIY Projects for Zero Waste Living: Easy and Sustainable Solutions for Your Home

Are you ready to take the plunge into a more sustainable lifestyle? One way to do so is by adopting a zero waste philosophy, which means reducing the amount of trash you generate to as close to zero as possible. One of the best ways to achieve this is through DIY projects that not only help you save money, but also reduce your environmental footprint. Let’s start with the kitchen. One of the…

[on-a-lucky-tide]

141 and Los Vaqueros creating thirst traps in competition. The losers cook and make the tea for the next five joint ops so the stakes are high. Ghost does the filming because he's not getting his greasy tits out on camera, so Nik subs in.

Gaz, Rudy and Soap do the standard formula because it never misses; shirtless, lots of smouldering looks, flexing. There might even be some baby oil in there because Soap is Extra. They've got this in the bag.

Or so they think.

Nikolai, Price and Alejandro post videos to the Magic Mike soundtrack as they perform chores, fully clothed, but occasionally winking cheekily at the camera; doing the laundry, washing dishes, making the bed, doing the groceries, mowing the lawn, chopping wood and doing DIY. There's even a clip where Laswell does a cameo so Price can listen intently and empathetically as she mimics an emotional conversation, and Syd agrees to let Nik open the door for her and hold her hand in public. (He owes her.)

They win by a landslide. Especially insulting since they had zero social media following at the start. Soap and Gaz are distraught; Rudy proposes to Alejandro the following day because he got madly horny and broody after the first three videos. (He's 38, bro, he's the target audience.)

[3liza]

re: last reblog - saw a TikTok ad the other day of a zoomer lifestyle peddler visually coded as a Nonbinary Dirtbag Leftist (dyed ratty hair, conspicuous piercings, cheap punk clothing) attempting to sell me an ebook about how to elevate my class position by buying a turnkey business like a laundromat.

so, exploiting the poor. and I mean they aren't wrong, that's how you get class mobile. I don't think it's actually possible to run a business like that ethically and still make a profit. maybe I'm wrong. but it seems like every bit of the profit is extracted from a dependence upon the poverty of the clientele, eg, lack of access to home laundry, charging greater than cost for time, water, soap and cleanliness which are all human rights, hiring employees at minimum wage, etc. the entire basis of charging money for such an amenity is a process of creating waste also, it creates waste in travel from home to the Laundromat, it creates waste in putting a laundromat in a storefront where housing could be, it creates waste in handling money and bills for a business that isnt essential etc etc. and it's an economic coercion because clean clothes aren't something you can budget or cut down on, you basically have your clientele by the balls.

on the other hand I'm rapidly approaching a grinding surface in terms of either entering into one of these exploitative processes as a means-of-production owner, which would be accomplished purely through debt on my part, or having to withdraw to permanent poverty, and the third option is winning the lottery either literally or figuratively through an unforeseen inheritance, sudden recovery from illness, or getting popular on social media in a way that produces profit

I think the anarcho syndicalists are broadly correct in that small organization is the correct move, eg, I'm about to lead test my apartment water supply and do some other moves that I expect to use to lower my rent, but the bigger project would be to contact the other tenants and see if they'd be interested in essential a "hostile" acquisition of the building based on having it fail a bunch of inspections, which I absolutely think is possible.

I could see using a small syndicate of partners/friends to collectively purchase the laundromat as a co-op. but would the profit splitting make it not worthwhile? maybe we would recoup from not having to hire any employees and just taking the shifts ourselves. this is the classic American immigrant model and it's a classic for a reason. I would really hate trying to do all that horizontal organizing though (huge cost for me personally)

idk how any of those stuff works. my parents are from the managerial-intellegentsia officer class and are stupid about money from a weird combination of having too much of it and too little. the overeducated poor. food insecure people who get all the jokes on Frasier. extraordinarily weird class position, it's sort of like being in the circus or being a pickpocket. you can fool people into thinking you're wealthy when you aren't, which is why I'm so insane on here about grammar and spelling, because you don't know until you're actually on the other side of it how much your level of education affects your material existence, even if the education is DIY. I have been literally homeless for periods of time and have almost always been poor, and the amount of "skating by" you can do on good grammar and nice table manners is like a big secret no one tells you anymore because the boomers pretended they got rid of all that jive during the summer of love. people have gotten REALLY mad at me on here about this topic I think because they think I'm enforcing these cultural standards every time I try to teach people about them. I'm trying to warn you!!

think of it this way: how long is someone willing to let you stay in their coffee shop or diner or house if you're "acting poor", vs how long if you're charming and helpful and conscientious? if you're loud and using "low class" dialect vs if someone has at some point taught you to act fancy? this is extremely racialized obviously. I can't speak on that.

the communist coin op laundry could have a shuttle service and group wash nights where people can combine laundry to use the big washers and dryers for larger loads at lower total cost if they were willing to sort out their clothes at the end 😔

[sable-dream]

I see a lot of 'diy gear' around so I'm surprised I've hardly ever seen bleach dyed shirts! They're honestly one of the coolest, easiest, and relatively inexpensive ways to make discreet gear - especially if you're like me and you can't exactly find shirts of your theriotype being sold.

Tutorial under the cut!! :3

What you will need:

A black t-shirt, preferably 100% cotton (avoid polyester and spandex)

Bleach

Water

Sidewalk/blackboard chalk, or a chalk pen

A paintbrush to apply the bleach

A disposable cup

A bit of cardboard or plastic to put under the shirt (to prevent the design from bleeding through onto the other side)

GLOVES and other safety gear (ie, a mask and goggles)

fabric paint, not puffy paint (optional but if you're heavy handed like I am it helps so you can fix screw ups)

SAFETY:

Work in a well ventilated area.

Wear gloves, goggles, and ideally a filtration mask when handling bleach.

WASH YOUR HANDS thoroughly after handling the bleach and do not touch your eyes or face before washing your hands

Be mindful of chemical reactions that can occur when mixing bleach with other cleaning products - never, ever, EVER mix bleach with anything containing ammonia as it can react and create toxic chlorine gas.

Keep bleach out of the reach of pets and small children, and if you have small animals like birds or rodents, work AWAY from them as the fumes can damage their lungs.

Make sure you read the back of your bleach container so you know how to handle and dispose of it safely.

Process:

Slide the cardboard into the shirt, adjusting it so you'll be drawing on the side you want your design on.

Use the chalk to draw your design on the fabric - don't worry about screwing up here, it'll wash out later. (If you want to, you can digitally draw your design, print it out, then trace the back with chalk and press it onto the shirt to transfer the art)

Put on your safety gear (ESPECIALLY your gloves) and move to a ventilated area (I did this on my back porch)

Carefully pour some bleach into your cup, then cut it with water. Remember that the more water you add, the more of the solution you'll need to apply to get your design to show up.

Apply the solution over your sketch using your paintbrush. You might need to apply it multiple times if your bleach solution is less concentrated.

Once your satisfied with your design, let it sit for 20 minutes to allow the bleach to fully stain the fabric.

After 20 minutes, rinse out the fabric under cool water. Make sure you're wearing your gloves as you do this so you don't hurt your skin.

Wash your shirt in your washing machine by itself, otherwise the bleach might transfer to other laundry. Put it in the dryer after or hang it up to air dry.

Clean up your area, wash your paintbrush out thoroughly, throw the cup away, and then remove your gloves to scrub your hands with soap and water.

Once your shirt is clean and dry, you can use fabric paint to touch up any mistakes. I used black paint to remove excess lines and white to give my design eye shines. Follow the directions for fabric paint on the back of the bottle, as the instructions for washing it can be different. Don't use puffy paint, the touch ups will end up raised and it'll look funny.

And there you have it! :D DIY gear shirt for all your alterhuman needs >:)

[pfhwrittes]

Welding anon here, I technically didn’t complete the program bc I am missing a single credit, which is fine by me because I ended up switching up and going into agriculture instead, which I am much happier to be in and I just got my degree for it. I don’t regret taking that program because I enjoyed the work (best I can describe it? It was almost like piping a cake) but I was the only girl in the room, not usually a problem for me but the guys didn’t talk to me at all and it was soul crushingly isolating

I always pictured him as a welder bc ye he has massive beefy arms and him being an explosives expert, I could see him enjoying the sparks and the process of creating something durable and strong. Both require a good bit of math, (not to mention shooting math which I still struggle with too) Just seems like a dude who finds fulfillment in difficult, heavy precision work. All those scars on his arms too… yea he’d be a hot welder, all sweaty and bit dirty and smelling like steel. Would make you a welded flower bouquet and it would look immaculate

I did also dabble in wood working (not carpentry. If ur curious I was making bee hives bc I was a bee keeper for a time and my company was so small I had to learn how to do everything) price is so carpenter core. He would smell like freshly cut wood, just a bit smokey and strong. I can just picture saw dust absolutely filling his pockets and trailing it around everywhere by accident. Carpenters always have really calloused, rough, strong hands and that’s just so him. Obsessed with carpenter price ngl.

I’m kinda redneck as fuck and I have the obsessed with being outside flavour of autism. I do have buff arms too 💪 (sorry this is a long ask sorry)

welding anon (or maybe i should just call you buff 💪 anon because hell yeah hell yeah hell yeah) please do not ever apologise for long asks. i love long asks. i cherish long asks. i cherish you for sending me a long ask.

firstly, the guys on your course SUCK for making you feel isolated. i get it on some level as i've been the only non-cis person on-site before. i know i've been lucky as i am technically a plumbing nepo-baby so any other shit has been shut down hard by my mum but more often than not she's the only woman on-site. thankfully she's got something like 40 years experience working with the guys she works with so she knows everyone and their children (and all the gossip, tradies are incorrigible gossips and i love it so much).

secondly, fuck yeah to finding something you love doing! i'm incredibly proud of you for getting your degree! go you! and also you're an incredibly talented multi-skilled individual, be proud of yourself for all the skills you have (welding, woodworking, beekeeping!!!).

thirdly, it's official you've converted me into a welder!soap person. you're absolutely correct. he would love welding. sparks + maths + methodical + challenging = welder!soap. he'd be so cheesy about giving you a metal flower bouquet too. excuse me for a minute while i think about sweaty soap with big beefy arms. oooooh boy 😵‍💫

finally, you are entirely correct that carpenter!price would smell so good. ugh, the smell of cut wood is addictive and definitely one of my most favourite smells in the world (i am that person that lingers in the timber yard in a B&Q just to get a whiff of the cut pine). carpenter!price would love his sweetheart fussing over his callouses and rubbing hand cream into his hands before bed every night, you can't tell me he wouldn't. i think the fact that he smells so good definitely makes up for the fact that you'd be fishing pencils and sawdust out of his pockets every time you did laundry. plus you'd have the most beautiful kitchen cabinets that are the envy of all your friends just because he wanted to give the kitchen a "spruce up" (side note: never trust a tradie to do their own DIY, you WILL end up living in a half-finished construction site for over 2 years).

[northbirdblog]

A refreshing and relaxing sugar scrub to brighten up and smooth out your skin!

[against-all-0dds]

WASH YOUR DIY CLOTHES 

PLEASE PEOPLE! THEY GET NASTY! 

I washed some shorts that I diy’ed today, here’s how I did it.

Put them with some laundry detergent and cold water. You don’t need a buncha detergent, just a lil, and the water can be warm if you want, but cold or cool is best. I don’t have a bathtub so I used a storage bin. Swish them around with ur hands for a little while.

2. Then u gotta rinse them out, use as little water as possible cuz saving the planet, but also don’t leave soap in them.

3. Usually gotta rinse them twice

Usually gotta rinse them twice

Let ‘em air dry. Sometimes I put hang them up and blow a fan on them.

And there ya go, clean diy punk clothes!

[dandelionsresilience]

DIY Laundry Detergent

No Soap or Borax

2c baking soda + 2c washing soda + ½c citric acid + ½c salt | use 1Tbsp per load

Horse chestnuts + water (optional)

Horse chestnuts (conkers) + water

Soap, but No Borax

3.5Tbsp grated laundry bar + 3L water + ¼c baking soda | use ½c per load

5oz bar soap + 1c washing soda + 1c baking soda + 1c salt | use 1-2Tbsp per load

1c grated bar soap + 2c washing soda + 1c baking soda | use ¼c per large load

Soap and Borax

1 bar soap + 1c washing soda + 1c borax + 5Gal water | use 2Tbsp per load

2-5oz bar soap + 3c washing soda + 2c borax | use 1/8c per load

3 grated soap bars + 4lb borax + 3lb washing soda + 3.5lb baking soda | use 1-2Tbsp per load

Add white vinegar to soften & fight stains

Make washing soda by baking baking soda! (read link for details)

Baking soda can substitute for borax

Some recipes call for you to boil ingredients together, be sure to check the directions

For dry detergents, make it as fine a powder as possible to make sure it dissolves, and add the powder directly to the washing drum (where the clothes are), not the separate little drawer you put liquid soap in

Other recipes

Other recipes, including baby-safe and laundry pods/bombs

Other recipes, with a few more unique ones near the bottom

[dashofmonsters]

hewwo ! how do you make your soaps & things ?

I followed a few recipes I found online. I can't remember the sites but I did write down the recipes

Laundry detergent powder :

2 cups baking soda

1 cup washing soda

1/2 Borax

1 bar of castile soap finally grated

Fragrance or Essential Oils (optional) I use P&J Trading for my oils

Mix well and shake in jar

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Dish Soap:

2 cups of castile soap

6-8 oz of distilled water

3-5 tablespoons of washing soda

heat up water and castile soap and slowly add in the washing soda, stirring as you add so it doesn't clump.

Once the ingredients have been well mixed, add in an essential oil of your choice before pouring contents into soap pump.

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Scouring powder:

2 cups baking soda

1 cup washing soda

1 cup non-iodized salt

essential oil (optional)

pour contents into jar and shake well

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For the Liquid Castile soap I used Whole Naturals

For the Washing Soda I used Pure Originals

For the Borax I used 20 Mule Team

For the Baking Soda I used the local store brand

For the Bar Castile Soap I used Kirk's Coconut oil Castile Soap

Oils I used for Laundry Detergent were from P&J Trading

Oil I used for Dish soap & Scouring Powder is from Viva Doria

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If anyone is interested in the oil blend I used for the Laundry Detergent I can update this later in y'all use P&J Trading oils or want to.

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UPDATE:

The dish soap recipe needs less washing soda. I had to alter the recipe because the one I used from a DIY site was no good. The washing soda to castile soap ratio made the dish soap thick and gel like. I'm going to probably have to reheat it, add more water & soap and save some for later.

[sarcoptid]

Having to google "DIY laundry detergent" sucks but at least I finally know what castille soap is. living and learning 👍