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This week at Too Cute Tuesday, a lot of our usual suspects were off on school vacation so it was just Sue and I tonight, holding down the crafting fort.
A while back, my Fort Kent friend/fellow blogger Kellie sent me a link to some cheap and easy homemade laundry detergent she made. When I realized how many jugs of plastic (not to mention dollars) this would save over time, I realized it was a perfect craft for Earth month. This April, we’re doing all Earth-friendly crafts this month.
I halved Kellie’s recipe since it was just Sue and I taking home the booty…but one penny per load of laundry?! That’s amazing, and so easy!
Materials
1/6 bar of Felds-Napta
1/4 cup Borax
1/4 cup Arm and Hammer Washing Soda
Cocktail of the Night: Dirty Underwear
1 oz vodka, 1 oz peach schnapps, several drops grenadine. To make a cocktail, fill with lemonade.
1. Head to the grocery store cleaning aisle to find needed crafting supplies. Just as you’re about to give up, notice the Borax and washing soda on the top shelf at the end of the aisle, and the Felds- Napta bars behind a display. Clearly, these aren’t the grocery store’s money making items!
2. Bring the supplies to Craft Central. Mix some beverages and read the containers trying to figure out what’s chemically in each. Interesting. Bonus: Make some chemical equations about what’s going to happen, if you feel so inclined/nerdy.
3. Grate 1/6 of the bar of Felds-Napta soap into 3 cups of water over the stove. Heat until soap dissolves.
4.Turn off heat. Stir in borax and washing soda until dissolved.
5. Pour mixture into one gallon bucket and fill rest with warm water. Let sit overnight.
6. Hang out and drink laundry-related cocktail.
Tomorrow night, I’ll be mashing it up (it’s apparently going to be a bit goopy) and stick it in jugs. Ta-da!
I apologize for the lack of photos, folks. It was not a real photogenic craft. But Sue and I did have a good time and if you tackle this project, so will you. Aren’t you crafty, and domestic?
See Kellie’s original blog post here…