and welcome to my channel I've been so busy working outside getting the
homestead already for the 2020 spring planting season today I'm in the canning
garage yes I love being in here and it's starting
to get warm enough that I can spend some days in here so I was really organizing
and working I didn't videotape it cuz I have so many
videos of me cleaning in the canning garage but I'm gonna share with you I'm
working on today my bar slope is finished it's been curing for about
eight weeks and I put it out here because I had no room anywhere else so
I'm packing up all of this bar soap now I have other soap as well so I won't be
making any more probably to the end of the year I tend to make my bar soap at
the end of the year and when it's cooler out that's when grandma Fannie made her
bar soap they always would cook it on an open fire outside they would render the
lard and then they would make their soap
now I won't keep this outside I'll bring into my pantry if you didn't see my
Amish if you didn't see my Amish soap recipe I'll share with you in the video
at the end of this one you have to remember whenever I talk about a video
that video is always at the end of the video that I'm making so I always send
you the links and everything you need to know I try to explain and share it and
the easiest detail how you can find the products that I'm using or how you can
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and in my description box underneath this video there you will see a little
link that says click more you click on that and everything is there that you
need to find I try every single video to make it as
easy as it possibly can all right so basket number one is finished it's one
thing I love about baskets they're just so universal you can use it for so many
things some of this soap I use for my laundry soap which I'm making laundry
soap coming up next because I'm totally out of it I am using everything I have
here on the homestead I have not bought anything for weeks now and I'm just
using what I have back in December whenever I got any kind of money or
anything I use that to build my supplies for when times were lean and times are
lean right now and so now I have the supplies that I had you know instead of
buying myself a new outfit or new pair of shoes I use that money to buy things
that I know I'm gonna need on the homestead hey I'm gonna make some
homemade laundry soap I've made this hundreds of times and so I'm just gonna
do it really quickly and you can watch me I have a lot of people ask me about
the aichi washers this laundry soap is good for the aichi washers because it is
low sudsing i've had many people love the homemade laundry soaps I had a few
people that are naysayers about it there are some things you need to understand
one thing is depending on your water if you have city water if you have treated
water your laundry soap may be different than somebody like me who's owned a
while also it just all depends on so many factors I don't use any other
laundry soap but my homemade laundry soap my homemade laundry soap does not
have borax in it so I'm able to use this water to water my plants
I even water my vegetables now with it simply because I don't have borax does
great to use if you have a lot of really greasy and stained clothing but more
can be hard on the environment you cannot have a problem with my soap
without having the borax that works great for me it's money-saving very much
money saving because he don't use much of it and so for me it works out great
I think in the course of the four years of showing my laundry soap I've had
three people that really complained about it but I have a feeling it's not
necessarily the homemade laundry soap that's their issue I really think maybe
it's something else with her water something else going on there because it
really is great stuff and I love it it works out great for me another thing you
have to understand this homemade products are not going to look the same
as store-bought store-bought products have things to make your clothes make it
suds and that is something that does not make your clothes clean the sudsing
chemical they use just makes it appear like it's cleaning better it has been
proving that suds and laundry soap the suds are not what makes your clothes
clean but back in the early 1900's women liked the look of the sudsing and they
thought thudding made a difference I did a lot of research on this and basically
it's saying you know what really doesn't make that big of a difference so
homemade products are not going to look like store-bought products and you know
we're so accustomed to store-bought products we're accustomed to wait to
where it looks like the way it acts the way it does things but homemade products
aren't that way because you don't have all this chemicals and so you don't have
near the chemicals and so that means it's better for you my homemade blond
Roux soap is great for my sensitive skin it works out great for my sensitive skin
but now my water isn't as hard as some people's water is I don't have a water
softener but our water here is not quite as hard is what some places their water
would be and so you would have more of a soap scum and you would have more of
that if you have really hard water it's one of those things that you can't just
have a cut and dry thing and say oh it works great for everyone because
everybody's situation is different so a lot of iron in their water some people
have a lot of this or that in their water but that is my explanation own
homemade Manresa I love it it saves
a lot of money and it saves me a lot of time because I can just whip up a batch
that will ask me six months and I don't even have to leave my home so let me
show you once again how to make it alright so I always use the dry laundry
soap I used to use the wet but the wet it I don't like it as much because you
need so much room to store it so what I do is you can use any soap you want I
cut my soap in half and I go like this I put half of our soap in there also I'm
using one box of super washing soda and then I found some of this OxiClean this
was laying around in my cupboard I don't know how old it is of when I got it but
I'm gonna use it up because I want to use I want to get rid of it and then I
have little bits of homemade bar soap that I add to it alright and then all we
do is we're gonna mix it up really fine and I do this in small batches and then
I pour it into my containers so let me get started so now we're going to use a
little bit of some essential oil this here is actually oil for soaps and we're
gonna use some cranberry and we're going to mix it up just a little more
now we're just gonna keep doing this until I'm finished so I probably do this
about three times alright so this is what it looks like this looks like
regular laundry suit I know there's hundreds and hundreds of videos on
laundry soap so I just want to share with you a little bit my thoughts on it
and I really wanted to share with you how I do it
these jars I don't know a long time ago at the thrift store and I use these jars
to put my soap bin
you
don't forget if you like videos like these that have to do with cleaning I
have a playlist with all kinds of videos how you can have a clean home it's
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playlists and last but not least it takes about one to two tablespoons per
load that's all it takes my friends to have a clean laundry one to two
tablespoons per load