I've been making the DYI liquid laundry soap for a few months now and really like it. I will never buy laundry soap again! I use the liquid detergent just fine in my front loader, not sure about the powder soap.I use almost the same recipe posted here but add 2c of oxiclean. Just make sure to add it slowly and outside in case it bubbles over. I also do not care for the scent of Fels soap so I bought a bottle of clean linen oil in the candle section at Walmart for $1 and added a little to the soap and my DYI liquid laundry softner. I also don't have alot of storage space. Rather than 10, 1 gallon containers setting around, I leave it in a 5 gallon bucket. When I need soap I refill an old Tide bottle about half way and then fill up with water and shake. Takes up less space and is quickly refilled.
I am interested in trying this on my carpets. Sounds like others have had good results with this. Do you have to rinse your carpet after cleaning with this?
I also really like DYI fabric softner. I have tried the DYI powder dishwasher soap and do not care for that. I got a film on my dishes that was difficult to remove, guess I will stick with Cascade for now
. I am going to try to make DYI fabreeze next. Anyone have other DYI money savers they use?