Washing Clothes? Washing Soda!

First of all. It is about my washing machine and our clothes. For us it works. No guaranty, that for someone else it works, too.

As I’ve written before, it started after that bad experience with the dirty washing machine tube. I’ve decided to move to the homemade mixtures. I read some blogs with some recipes to find the best for me. I like it the simple way, so I didn’t want to cook the wash mixtures. I prefer powder mixtures over liquid mixtures. I found a recipe with washing soda, baking soda and curd soap. I had to grate 100 grams of soap, khmm, there is a limit to my patience, and that is over. Once, OK, twice, maybe OK, but forever, definitely not OK. But I made it, tried it. It worked. The clothes were clean. In a little while all the mixture was used up. Grating? Again? Once again. But this is not my way.

I read some articles. Washing soda and baking soda together? It doesn’t make sense. And I don’t need curd soap, too. If the clothes of the children are very dirty, that I can handle first with some soap and then wash with the washing machine. Typically these are just the white socks. Washing soda can keep up with the green grass flecks and so on.

And the softener? Conventional vinegar (5%). I don’t like the smell of softeners. Morning fresh, lavender, rose? It’s just too much and intense. And this smell is all day with me, mixed with my perfume. I don’t like it. The smell of the vinegar, especially apple cider vinegar is not my friend too. But after washing I don’t notice the smell of that, just cleanness. And the clothes are fine, color and everything.

My recipe:

I use one or two tablespoons of washing soda (three tablespoons, if the clothes are really dirty and the water is hard. The water hardness is important. By hard water you need more washing soda.) and one tablespoon of vinegar as softener.