DIY All-Natural Laundry Soap Recipes

Learn how to make all-natural laundry soap with these simple DIY recipes. Create your own laundry soap at home and enjoy a cleaner, greener laundry experience. Discover the benefits and tips for making your own soap today!

Roxana McQuincy

6/23/20253 min read

clean laundry
clean laundry

If you like making simple DIY crafts and recipes then making this one can be fulfilling. You can make simple DIY laundry soap either to suit your taste with nice scented essential oils. It is fun and easy to make your own laundry soap and be experimental with them compare to ready-to-use soaps and detergents that you buy in stores.

Making your own DIY laundry soaps can also be part of making affordable and sustainable living. Using simple products for cleaning can also be a good way to avoid allergic reactions from highly perfumed, harsh detergents that may contain harmful ingredients too. Finding DIYs that can act as greener solution can be good for the environment.

DIY Laundry Soap

Using different natural products that you already have at home. You can always use washing soda, white vinegar, variety of essential oils and other DIY cleaning agents that might suit your simple recipe. Join me to make this DIY laundry soap, now let's go!

Ways to Make Simple DIY Laundry Soap

Simple DIY Powdered Soap

Ingredients

  • 1 cup of mild bar soap

  • 2 cups of borax

  • 3 cups of washing soda

  • ¼ cup of Epsom salt

  • 40 drops of essential oil or essential oil blends (optional)

Steps

  1. Measure out your ingredients and set them aside.

  2. Cut a block of soap into a reasonable portion for easy holding. Grate your bar soap into flakes on a chopping board.

  3. Add the bar soap flakes, washing soda, borax and Epsom salt into a mixing bowl. Mix well.

  4. Add your favorite essential oils to the blend.

  5. Pour mixture into a clean Mason jar and close tightly with a lid.

Mild Liquid Detergent

Ingredients

  • 5 cups of warm water

  • 2 cups of distilled white vinegar

  • ¼ cup of liquid dish soap

  • ¼ cup of washing soda

  • ¼ cup of borax

  • 30 to 40 drops of essential oils (optional)

Steps

  1. Pour borax, washing soda and liquid dish soap in a mixing bowl and whisk all these ingredients altogether.

  2. Add your warm water to other ingredients and mix well.

  3. Add your favorite essential oil or essential oil blends. Stir the mixture.

  4. Pour in a big well-sanitized bottle and store in a refrigerator.

  5. If you want to use, add two scoops per kg in a washing machine. Pour on stubborn stains before putting in a washing drum.

All-Natural Laundry Castile Soap

Ingredients

  • 4 cups of distilled white vinegar

  • ½ cup of a liquid Castile soap

  • ½ cup of baking soda

  • ½ cup of borax

Steps

  1. Pour distilled white vinegar and liquid Castile soap in a mixing bowl and stir all the ingredients in a mixing bowl.

  2. Add baking soda and borax into the mixing bowl and whisk them to get homogenous mixture.

  3. Transfer your liquid laundry soap in your clean bottle.

  4. Shake well before each use.

baking soda
baking soda

How to Use DIY Laundry Soap

  • Start by sorting your clothes based of fabric, weight and color. Read the symbols and instructions on labels on how to handle clothes.

  • Put your clothes in a drum.

  • Add your DIY laundry soap and DIY Fabric Softener in the drawer.

  • Follow the instructions of washing machine to run the wash cycle, rinse cycle and drying them.

  • You can hang dry them in the line during the sunny day or following instructions on a particular clothes.

  • Iron if the fabric is creased, according to the instructions on the clothes, old dry clothes and put them in a closet .

About me

Hello, my dear gorgeous! Welcome to my blog and learn with me as you walk in your skincare journey. I'm skincare enthusiast and a student. I like sharing my passion of beauty and skincare with the world. I like blogging, reading and binge watching YouTube vlogs and Netflix during my leisure time.

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