homemade laundry soap

About five years ago, I was looking for ways to cut our grocery bill.  One of the ways I found was to start making our own laundry soap.  I bought the ingredients, and have not purchased laundry soap since!  Seriously easy, and seriously CHEAP!  Plus, it's good soap!  If you are not already making laundry soap, I highly recommend it.  I found the recipe on tipnut.com.

Homemade Laundry Soap:
~2 cups of the fels-naptha bar soap.  In my area, they only sell this at CVS pharmacy.  It usually runs about $1.19 per bar.
~1 Cup washing soda.  In my area, they sell this at Orchard Supply or at Nob Hill foods.  It is usually about $3 a box, but will last for several times of making soap.
~1 Cup Borax.  This is pretty common, and can be found anywhere.
~1 covered container, about 3 quarts.

~I cut my bar soap into about 8 pieces, and then I put it in my food processor.  It grinds it down to a nice fine powder in under a minute:)  If you don't have a food processor, you can grate it by hand, and the finest grate.
~Measure out two cups into a container that you want to keep your laundry soap in.  Add washing soda and borax.  Mix to combine.  That's it!
Happy laundering!

*I have a friend that adds essential oil to her soap so that it smells nice, but I have never done this.