A laundry soap update!

So you’ll have to skip back few entries to see that we decided to jump in with both feet and try homemade laundry detergent that they said could be made for a fraction of the cost of regular store bought detergent.  I think I recall that we spent around $26 for our first batch.  Our experiment started on January 1, 2013… It’s now April 3.  Here’s what’s left of the first batch

Yes, it’s still about half full after 3 months.

And here’s our very exacting scientific method for tracking detergent usage – the hash mark method (which we also screwed up a bit so ignore the black marker part). 

105 loads done so far (that we remembered to mark down) and it’s only half gone!  That means we should be able to easily break the 200 load mark by the time we reach the bottom of the jar!

Doing some math, with the help of others, I figure each load is costing us right at 13 cents!  You can’t beat that!

I know that some of you are thinking that our clothes are probably not coming clean, look terrible and it smells like they’ve come out of a gym duffel bag instead of the dryer – but you’re wrong!  I honestly have only noticed two differences between this detergent and the Tide we were using before :

#1 – The homemade detergent smells great (and several people have commented as much)

#2 – The commercial detergent has been ripping us off for all these years charging what they do!

And the great news is that now that we know how to make it we can buy the ingredients as they go on sale – which will make it even cheaper per load.  I believe the popular term is – WINNING!