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Posted: June 29 2010 at 9:14am | IP Logged Quote melanie
I've been making our own laundry soap for several months now....I love the savings! but lately I've noticed a lot of our clothes have developed these tiny holes in them...it's pretty much all been in the boys clothes I think, so maybe this is just a coincidence. They are very hard on their clothes! But it seems like it's happened in several shirts at once, as well as a few cotton type shorts. Anyone have this problem? Think it's the soap or just a coincidence?


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Posted: June 29 2010 at 9:21am | IP Logged Quote CatholicMommy
I presume the clothes are being fully rinsed? But then, everything I put in our homemade soap I also use to soak clothes in as items by themselves (even making a paste)...

Which ingredients and amounts are you using in your soap?

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Oh, let me think...I always have to look it up...a bar of soap, 1 cup of washing soda and a half cup of borax, I use this to fill one of those big plastic paint buckets with a lid, what size are they, 5 gallons? about 3/4 of the way full, and I use 1/2 cup...regular sized washing machine, not a big one.

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Posted: June 29 2010 at 10:23am | IP Logged Quote CatholicMommy
That's what we use... Now, we tend to use no more than 3-4 tablespoons (for heavy loads) when washing. But I would think that too much soap would be more of a rinsing issue than a hole-making issue... I'm not sure.

What kind of bar soap are you using?

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Oh my, maybe I am using way too much. I always have a complex even with the half cup, like I'm not using enough.

Soap- I'd like to find some fels-naptha but I haven't found any recently...so usually I use Ivory. Once I used Irish Spring because it's what we had on hand, lol.

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Posted: June 29 2010 at 11:12am | IP Logged Quote CatholicMommy
We don't personally use Fels Naptha because of some of the chemicals in it. We use Ivory or our own homemade bar soap (not the Simply Ivory - too strong of a scent for us!).



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