About my clothesline...

[PotterWatch]

I have looked for the Fels Naptha soap in Target, Walmart, and my local grocery but haven't been able to find it. I did find a bar soap in the laundry aisle at Walmart but it definitely had dyes and fragrance. I haven't been able to find the washing soda anywhere. I'll try it if I can find ingredients that don't have the stuff that irritates my youngest son, but I haven't had any luck yet.

Kristen, what is in the detergent you were cooking on the stove?

 

[okiemommy]

I have looked for the Fels Naptha soap in Target, Walmart, and my local grocery but haven't been able to find it. I did find a bar soap in the laundry aisle at Walmart but it definitely had dyes and fragrance. I haven't been able to find the washing soda anywhere. I'll try it if I can find ingredients that don't have the stuff that irritates my youngest son, but I haven't had any luck yet.

Kristen, what is in the detergent you were cooking on the stove?

This is what I did, I went to a local family owned grocery store and found the fels naptha in the body soap isle. Some stores it's with the body soap and some stores it's with the laundry soap. You might try safeway, lucky( no they got bought out didn't they?? Williams? I can't remember what the grocery stores are in CA...Does Trader Joe's carry non food items?

Anyway sorry if you have looked all these places, and hope that you are able to find the ingredients.​

 

[FunnyFarmer]

About the homemade detergent--what is washing soda?
And is the Fels Naphtha soap like castile soap?

Erika

 

[SproutGirl]

I don't understand how the "freeze dry" thing works. How can clothes get dry in outside in the winter if hey freeze? Wouldn' the ice from the frozen wash water get them wet again?

Here's a good trick to get rid of those "shirt nipples:" hang your shirts upside-down. By puitting the clothes-pins on the bottom of the shirts, there will be no visible marks from the pins.

 

[SterlingAcres]

I'm wondering about the winter thing myself. I'll probably hang our clothing inside this winter; I usually do.

I hang all our laundry upside down. Weird.

 

[GlacierNan]

Hi,
I use the grated dry soap mix with Fels Naptha , Arm and Hammer Washing Soda And Borax( not the borax hand soap) All of the ingredients can be bought on this website www.soapsgonebuy.com and she sells 1 lb and 5 lb bags of it all mixed for you if you want. I haven't used anything else in several months and I don't need dryer sheets at all.
I am really sold !!

 

[miss_thenorth]

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Vinegar does NOT make your clothes smell of vinegar. It helps take soap residue off your laundry, so there won't be as much soap smell, either.

But the vinegar naturally softens the laundry, the smell evaporates ( I don't even notice it when I take it out of the washer).

i used to use vinegar in the rinse cycle all the time, as my dd and I have sensitivities to the detergent, but since i started using the home made soap, I don't even need the vinegar.

I have been line drying for years, since before it was the "in" thing to do. cool

My clothes are pretty soft with the home made soap, but I don't line dry...Maybe some vinegar, line dry, and then fluff in the dryer for 10 min. Better than 50-70 mins each especially if I combine the loads. And less trips; I can bring several loads in at once and fluff in the dryer. Great info!

vinegar is a wonder substance isnt it? I have heard to clean your house with vinegar and would like to, but I don't want it to smell like vinegar

I clean my house with vinegar, and I prefer it to other cleaners, mainly b/c of the smell. Once the vinegar evaporates, you can't smell it, whereas if you use an ammonia base cleaner, you can smell that for a while afterwards. vinegar does not irritate my sinuses like commercial cleaners either.

I fill a squirt bottle of 1/2 water, 1/2 vinegar to clean bathtubs, showers etc. pure cinegar to clean windows and glass tables. I clean floors with it jsut about anything!!

OK, back to clotheslines....

 

[krjwaj]

I have looked for the Fels Naptha soap in Target, Walmart, and my local grocery but haven't been able to find it.

I couldn't find it in our local Harris Teeter, but according to the Dial website, Kroger stores carry Fels Naptha. We got the rest of the ingredients at Harris Teeter.​