I'd love the opportunity to walk you through essential oils. Would you love the chance to find someone to help mentor you through the process? What if I told you I would help you for FREE! Check out this link for the rating- Kirk's Castile Soap If I could find the Kirk's Castile locally in the fragrance-free bar it would be a 1. The soap I use, Kirk's Castile Soap was a 2. I checked and the ingredients I use for my DIY Powder Laundry Soap all listed “A” except for Ox圜lean which was a “B” but Oxyclean does make an Oxyclean Baby if you wanted all your ingredients with an “A” Rating.īorax rated an “F” for respiratory concerns and seeing I set my standard to “A” and “B” ratings I'm leaving it out.įor the Kirk's Castile Soap, I had to look it up in the Cosmetics Database where the rating is slightly different and is based on a numbered scale with “1 & 2” being “Low Hazard”. While “F” means the product is highly toxic or the product has little to no ingredient disclosure. An “A” Rate indicates very low toxicity to health and the environment along with sharing a detailed ingredients list. My goal was to have each of my ingredients in my DIY Powder Laundry Soap as an “A” or a “B” rating which is way better than the regular store-bought Tide detergent I used in the past which rate at a “D” or “F” on the EWG Database. Now so much has changed with EWG that I never use them for my research now.) Toxic chemical free homemade laundry detergent I did this research before EWG was a sell out and back when you could trust their recommendations. It's been addictive for me to look up different products to see how they rate. The website I use to check is It has become my new favorite website. I did take the research one step further and made it a point to check to see if all the other ingredients I use are given a high safety level. I like leaving it out so I can save the extra $5+ and my clothes get just as clean without it. If you land on the “I want to use it side”, this recipe will still work fabulously if you want to add a 4lb box of Borax to the mix. I do not have a medical degree or a background in Chemistry (other than the few classes I was tortured into taking in college) so I'm not going to even pretend to tell you if it is safe or not for your use. I've decided to just say, if you use Borax or not, it should totally be your own personal decision. Let's just say that the Borax safety issue is quite the Rabbit Hole and I still am not sure on which side of the hole I land. I do want to add that before I wrote this blog post, I did take the time to do some more research on the subject of using Borax safely in a DIY Powder Laundry Soap. My DIY Laundry Detergent Ingredient Safety Research It's a great alternative but my youngest has the most sensitive skin ever and every time I use anything other than my homemade recipe made with simple ingredients or Young Living's Thieves Laundry Soap she breaks out in a rash everywhere the fabric has touched her skin. I also want to add that I have at times when I just didn't feel like making my own laundry soap recipe, I will buy store-brand laundry detergent like this one. So if you have clothing that needs extra gentle care or something you want to keep and wear for decades then maybe a homemade laundry soap is a bad idea for your cleaning routine. Plus my girls are growing out of their clothing so fast that their clothing is getting handed down faster than I can wash. You will hear those that are against Homemade Laundry detergent talk about how it wears out clothing faster and that it leaves a residue.īut for me working on a farm wears our clothes out faster than any homemade soap could ever dream of. I've used our Homemade laundry detergent recipe without Borax for almost 9 yrs now and our clothes come out clean and not dingy and we live on a farm that produces some pretty dirty clothing with really tough stains. I'm personally of the camp it works for me and we have hard water which some say makes using your own homemade laundry detergent a disaster. I've decided you are either one of two camps, It does clean or homemade detergent is terrible for your clothes and doesn't work. Oh does the question, “Does homemade laundry soap really clean?”, strike a lot of debate.
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