~Make Your Own Products~ Recipes & Other Helpful Tips Directory

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  • KayMMIV
  on Dec. 8, 2008 at 6:55 PM

• for the washing soda look at your local grocery stores in the laundry aisle, not mass ones, but local. even if they don't have it they will normally order it for you if they have arm and hammer products and since it comes in with the normal shipment you still pay the same amount as if they carried it. for the bar soap you are absolutely right, you can sub any bar soap for any bar soap called for in a recipe like this. it's all just preference.

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  Hi there, I just wanted to let you know how much I've enjoyed this site!  I

   finally started making making my laundry soap (dry) a couple weeks ago and absolutely love it.  I was able to buy the borax locally but had to buy the Fels Naptha & washing soda online, which made it a bit more expensive with shipping.  I started using the soap about a month ago, and am so pleased with it that I'm making some for Christmas presents.  Weird, I know, but I have several friends asking for it.  This soap works great.  Next batch I want to try with ivory bar soap or something similar, I think I read on here you can use that in place of the Fels Naptha, and that's one less item I have to send away for.

  I finally received all the stuff to make the dry dishwasher detergent with Citric acid, doing that next. 

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  • Jesseklj
  on Dec. 14, 2008 at 9:25 PM

• yes, thank you so much for all your hard work and time put in!!!  This is so helpful

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  • SherriPontious
  on Feb. 5, 2009 at 12:58 PM

• Ok, I feel silly for asking, but doesn't cleaning with vinegar make your whole house smell like vinegar?

  ~SB~

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  • KayMMIV
  on Feb. 5, 2009 at 2:40 PM

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  Quoting SherriPontious:
  
  

  Ok, I feel silly for asking, but doesn't cleaning with vinegar make your whole house smell like vinegar?

  
  nope, it only smells like vinegar while it's wet, once tried it disapeers.

  
  
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  • MommyKat
  on Feb. 5, 2009 at 3:25 PM

• Thank you for all these tips. 

  I can't wait to try my own dishwasher and laundry soap!!!

  Kay you seem to know a ot about soapmaking.  How did you learn??  I would love to be able to look at a product and know how to make one equally as good.

  Thank you.
  

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  • HelenJ
  on Feb. 6, 2009 at 12:01 PM

• This is one of the MOST awesome, useful resources I have ever (I mean it, ever) found. This directory answered SO many questions and gave me ideas to make things I didn't know I could make! Thank you so much Kay!

  
  

  
  

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  • TilmannsGirl
  on Feb. 19, 2009 at 10:33 AM

• I don't know if it is because they made changes to the groups or what but I can't get any of the links above to work! I was looking through them last night and they worked fine.. now it tells me I have reached this page in error or something along those lines. Is anyone else experiencing this? Thanks!

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