Lanza Marsiglia solid laundry soap 250 g

Eco-friendly washing or how to make soap slime

I'm sure many of you remember how our grandparents, and often our parents, used to use castile soap for washing. In our grandmothers' time, castile soap with deer hair was famous, and later soap was sold in the form of soap flakes. It will come as no surprise to you that castile soap is experiencing a renaissance again, thanks in large part to young moms trying to protect their young children from the aggressiveness of today's laundry detergents.

Allergies and rashes are a common problem with children, and so moms are increasingly turning to washing in core soap. But often they don't know how to do it, or they have doubts about whEther such washing will ruin an automatic washing machine with lots of electronics and clever features. So in this article, you'll learn all about washing in core soap, and I'll warn you that you won't ruin your washing machine in any way.

So what do we need?

• 1 bar of castile soap
• Baking soda - Do not use Baking soda as it causes the laundry to turn grey.
• A 10 litre bucket (with a lid so the washing emulsion doesn't dry out over time)
• Water

Grate the soap cube on a coarse grater into the bucket. The grammage of the soap is indifferent at this point as we will be working proportionally.

Pour the grated soap over warm Water (I pour 2 kettles of 1.7 litres one at a time) and stir thoroughly with a whisk. Let the soap melt, stirring occasionally. Each soap has a different dissolving time, but half an hour is usually enough.

While the soap is dissolving, prepare the Baking soda. See what weight the soap was and weigh out half the amount of Baking soda. Example - if the soap is 180 g, we weigh out 90 g of Baking soda. Then put this in a smaller pot or other container. Once the soap has dissolved, pour hot Water over the Baking soda, stir until it is dissolved, and then pour it into the bucket with the soap. Stir and watch the mixture thicken. Stirring constantly, then add more Water. This time the temperature doesn't matter, I prefer cold so the bucket doesn't boil. Gradually top up the bucket to the desired amount.

Each soap has a completely different grammage. So if we have a small soap, we can add less Water, if we have a large soap, we can add up to 10 litres. But it is better to add more Water (I recommend always adding at least 8 litres, because the soap thickens gradually, it will only turn salty on the second day, and if there is not enough Water, the washing emulsion is much stiffer). If the soap is too stiff, we can "scrape" it with a spoon before washing, so that it dissolves better during washing. If the soap is thin, it does not matter, it is then a liquid washing gel, but we put a little more in the wash.

Use 2 dcl of soap emulsion per 5 kg of laundry. It's better to put the soap in an empty drum and put the laundry in afterwards, because it's harder to put soap in a full drum.

We close the washing machine door, put ordinary fermented vinegar (1 dcl) in the container where the fabric softener is poured and start the programme. The vinegar acts as a softener for the laundry. Soap is strongly alkaline, and if we did not add a substance with a low pH, the laundry would be too hard after drying. The vinegar softens the laundry wonderfully - and do not worry, the laundry does not smell of vinegar at all, the vinegar does not cause any stains, on the contrary, the colours are fixed by the vinegar (those who have ever dyed or batiked textiles know). After washing, the laundry smells of soap. With all-natural soaps without perfumes, the smell is neutral, there is practically nothing.

Washing in soap is excellent in this respect. It really washes out everything, the colours are still nice thanks to the vinegar, white is white. I wash all my jeans in soap, only I always turn them inside out. The vinegar fixes the colours nicely, so that black t-shirts are black and not washed out even after frequent washing.

Máme v rodině samé kluky, takže fleky jsou na denním pořádku - od trávy, od hlíny, od kečupu, od ovoce atd. Na fleky platí žlučové mýdlo, které je možné koupit za pár korun v DM drogerii. Z tohoto mýdla však nedělám žádnou emulzi, ale natřu ho přímo na flek. Kus prádla s flekem položím do vany, sprchou ho pokropím, aby se namočilo. Vezmu do ruky žlučové mýdlo a celý flek důkladně potřu, až vidím, že se dělá taková tenká mýdlová vrstva. Pak ten kus zabalím flekem dovnitř a nechám mýdlo působit delší dobu, nebo prádlo vezmu a hodím ho rovnou do pračky (záleží na intenzitě fleku).

The bile soap is never rinsed out before washing, the treated piece is washed with the rest of the laundry in the soap emulsion as described above. The bile soap removes the stain during the wash. It works perfectly, the colors are not ruined in any way, no washed out spots or anything like that. After washing, nothing is visible at all, as my light blue jeans, accidentally dripping with blood, can attest.

If you need to bleach some laundry, I recommend adding regular baking powder to the soap before washing. Baking powder contains phosphates (phosphates), so it really whitens the laundry. You can pour 1-2 bags of baking powder directly into the drum with the soap. At washing time, you can then think about whEther baking powder is suitable for you to eat. I've concluded that it's not for us. I use cream of tartar (available at health food stores) or regular Baking soda (available everywhere) as a substitute.

Ani náhodou. Peru v mýdle více než rok, doma i na chalupě, a za tu dobu nenastal žádný problém. Má kamarádka pere v mýdle mnohem déle než já a je také velmi spokojená. Podotýkám, že obě používáme ty velmi chytré přístroje, které prádlo samy zváží, určí čas praní, mají všecky možné funkce, prostě stručně řečeno jsou celé digitální a ne zrovna levné. Ocet ani mýdlo pračky neničí, jak se většinou lidé obávají, naopak - jsou přínosem. Mýdlo je silně zásadité a pěkně vypere i v hodně tvrdé vodě. Průplach octem pak zamezí ukládání vodního kamene z máchání. Objektivně musím říci, že buben v pračce na chalupě září novotou, ačkoli pereme ve vodě čerpané ze studny, která je tak tvrdá, že po vyschnutí zanechává na umyvadle mapy. Proto jsem začala používat ocet také místo leštidla do myčky. Nádobí je od té doby krásně lesklé a myčka se nezanáší.

Advantages of washing in soap

• Washing in soap saves money. A bar of soap usually costs between 15 and 40 CZK. Super quality natural Marseille soap costs around 150 CZK, but its grammage is usually 600g, which is enough for two buckets of washing slime. A bottle of vinegar costs about 10 CZK and 1 kg of crystal soda costs on average 25 CZK (1 kg of soda is enough for about 10 buckets of soap emulsion). You can buy good quality bile soap in DM for up to 20 CZK, other brands of soap are (I don't know why) much more expensive.
• The soap is gentle on the skin. It contains no bleach or colour brighteners, just no cheMicals.
• The laundry is well washed.
• Washing in soap is environmentally friendly.