In honor of Earth Day we decided to make homemade laundry soap. Ray actually did all the work, I just helped shop for the ingredients :-)Here is a link to the recipe and a photo of our "slime". We used Kirk's Castile soap, Arm & Hammer Laundry Soda and 20 Mule Team Borax. These were all available locally in our small town, so they should be easy to find. I will let you know how well it works when I try it out this weekend.
Now for the cougar update- A few years ago I was driving down a dirt road in a pretty remote area of northern Michigan and saw a large animal crossing the road. It was a cougar! Now, I am something of an outdoorsy type and have seen many wild critters while delivering the mail, camping and fishing, so I think I know a cougar when I see one. However, the official word from the DNR at the time was that there were no cougars in Michigan. As time went on, more and more were sighted in Michigan. Well, I thought I was one of the only people to see one in my area, but on Monday a customer of mine came running out to my car to tell me that he had seen one across the road (about 200 feet) from his house! I was so excited to know that I was not a lone loony! He also told me that the corner store had a photo of a cougar, and that another local had seen one feeding on a road kill deer. I will have to make sure I have my camera with me from now on. If I get any pix I will post them.
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That looks very similar to the stuff we made, except ours had a somewhat greenish tint. It works really well. If you want to be able to pour it out of a detergent bottle, you can water the goop down some and stir it gently to make it more liquid, but then remember you'll need to use more of it out of the detergent bottle.
trent- thanks for the comment! If I can find some soap flakes I think I will try to just make it into a powder. That way it will be easier to store. BTW my hubby used it today to do some wash and it worked great!
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