Sara explains how she reduces waste, saves money, and helps the environment by making her own laundry detergent. She reuses empty milk jugs and plastic containers collected from friends and family. With a simple recipe using inexpensive ingredients, she saves over $400 per year compared to store-bought detergent. If more families followed her example of reducing, reusing, and recycling, it could save thousands in the community and be good for the economy.

1. I am going to tell you how I reduce, reuse, and recycle!
By the time I am finished, I hope you decide to do the same.

2. My name is Sara Kleinpeter, I am a mom of 3 boys. This makes a
total of 5 people in my house. I needed a way to save money, for
my family.
One day, I thought to myself, “I bet I can make my own laundry
detergent, instead of spending $15 every 2 weeks”. With this
thought, I went online and searched for “do it yourself liquid
laundry detergent” and found this recipe on the Dugger family
website.
Since I do not have 10 gallon jugs just lying around, I asked my
friends and family if I could have all of their empty milk jugs or
plastic containers with lids. I hope you enjoy this recipe as much
as I do. By all means, we can all do this.
In this slideshow, I will also tell you why it is important and
rewarding to reduce, reuse and recycle.

3.  Borax ($2.99 at Wal-Mart or Target–in the laundry aisle )
 Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda (NOT Baking
Soda–$2.99 at local grocery store in laundry aisle )
 Fels-Naptha Soap Bar ($1.56 at local grocery store in
laundry aisle )
 5-gallon bucket with lid (around $4 at Home Depot, but I
use a 5 gallon Rubbermaid tote that I paid 3.97)
 10 gallon milk jugs (or other containers) that have
been cleaned and rinsed (the concentrate will disperse
more evenly if you go ahead and divide it up.
 OPTIONAL: Essential Oil Drops for fragrance (not sure
the price, because we didn't use any)

5. Grand Total: $11.54 for 640 loads (180 loads
in a top-loading machine). That’s a little
more than 1 cent a load!
And the savings are even greater the next
time you make this because the only thing
you’ll have to buy is the Fels-Naptha soap
bar!

6. Directions on how to make your own
laundry detergent

15. Once you’re ready to use the laundry soap, shake it in the
container first. Then add:
-5/8 cups for a regular top-loading machine
-1/4 cup for a front-loading (HE) machine

16. When making my own laundry detergent, I reduce the amount of
money I have to spend on laundry detergent. By making my own
it only cost only pennies for the amount of laundry detergent I
get with this recipe, compared to the name brands you buy for $15
every two weeks.
I reused my last laundry detergent bottle and milk jugs that I have
collected from family and friends.
Last is recycling, being that I reused my laundry detergent bottles
and milk jugs, that I received from my family and friends, I am
recycling the plastic that would have been thrown away before.
Not only am I saving money, but I am saving energy too.
You see Recycling one gallon plastic milk jug can save enough
energy to run your clothes washing machine for over an hour –
more than enough for a full load of clothes. Can you imagine
what 10 gallons recycled over and over would save? Let me show
you just how much over just one year.

17. I wash about 2 loads of clothes a day. That is one
gallon of laundry detergent every week and a half,
to two weeks.
By recycling 10 gallon plastic jugs, I am saving over
10 hours of energy in just 26 weeks. That is over 20
hours of energy in one year. This is just my
family’s savings. Can you imagine if only 4
families saved that much in one year? No, don’t
imagine, Let me show you in a chart. The amount
on the left is the amount of hours saved by the
gallons of milk jugs recycled.


18. 900
800
700
600
500 10 gallons
400 20 gallons
300 40 gallons
200
100
0
2 weeks 26 weeks 52 weeks

19. As you can see, if 4 people saved 10 gallons of
milk jugs by making their own
detergent, there would be over 800 hours of
energy saved in one year.

20. Let’s talk about the cost. If it cost .55 cents per
load, when you make your own laundry detergent.
$11.54 for 640 loads (180 loads in a top-loading
machine), that would be .55 cents a load!
You would have to buy 6 gallons of store bought
laundry detergent, just to get to 640 loads of
clothes, that you can wash with the do it yourself
detergent. This would be $15 per every 2 weeks.
Need a picture? No problem, here you go:

21. $900
$800
$700
$600
$500
Self made detergent
$400
Store bought detergent
$300
$200
$100
$0
2 weeks 26 weeks 52 weeks

22. As you can see, it cost $780 for one year
worth of Store bought laundry
detergent. And, only $364 for one year
worth of do it yourself detergent. This is
a savings of $416 per year! 10 families
would save$4,160. Let’s just imagine that
10,000 families made his or her laundry
detergent. That would be a total savings
of $4,160,000.

23. $4,500
$4,000
$3,500
$3,000
$2,500
5 families
$2,000
10 families
$1,500
$1,000
$500
$0
2 weeks 26 weeks 52 weeks

24. To conclude, you are not only saving Energy but you
are also saving money by making laundry
detergent yourself.
The more families that make laundry
detergent, the more money that is saved, and the
more money saved per year, the more money you
can put to bills. The more money you can put to
bills, the more money that goes back to the
Economy.
If people start making their own laundry
detergent, this would be good for the Economy.
So I am asking you, let’s all reduce, reuse, and
recycle, starting one step at a time.
Homemade laundry detergent.

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