Haha, it was a couple months ago, it's far too late for the shirt now. Now I try to wear black on baking days. Maybe I should get an apron like you said!
Ours were white with commercial soaps, but they have been getting dingy. I'm thinking about soaking them, adding oxi-clean, or just replacing them. We have been living in apartments, so their washers suck, that could also be the cause.
We make our own laundry detergent too. I think I'm going to start gelling it, we've noticed some of our whites are getting a little dingy and I'm worried it's not fully activating in the washer. It's the Borax/Washing Soda/Fels Naptha mix. Any suggestions??
we buy the coconut oil from Bulk Apothecary (they have a website). It's the 76 degree oil, I get 8lbs for 20$-ish. Seems like a decent price to me. I can make almost 4 batches of soap off of one bucket. For the quality of soap, it's a fantastic deal. They also sell much larger quantities, up to...
We started making our own soap this year. We make it from coconut oil mostly. I just purchased Lye from Bulk Apothecary (in OH) and it came in nice bottles, crystallized. Making lye from ashes is, from what I heard, where lye soap gets it's bad name. Every species of tree produces different...