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How to Make an All Natural Laundry Powder (Only Two Ingredients!)

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  I have been making my own laundry soap for quite a few years and like many, I got started off in with the recipe for a concentrated liquid using the Fels Naptha, Borax, and washing soda.  Through the years I started changing up the recipe, at one point going to a thick paste that looked rather like mayonnaise. The thing I liked about it then is it took only a tsp at a time and used up so little space in the laundry cupboard. Then three things happened.  The first was that I finally caved to my suspicions and did a little research into Fels Naptha and was not pleased with what I found.  Not 100% natural and had a rather poor rating for toxicity.  This did not surprise me but I was still disappointed.  This was one of the catalysts that spurred me into learning to make my own all natural bar soap so that I could make a truly natural laundry soap from it.  I will be doing a post on that in the near future as well but onto the second reason I...