Making your own washing powder is easy. The process involves three steps.1)Go to the shops and buy a bar of environmentally friendly soap, washing soda, borax if you use it, vinegar2)Get a big bowl, a rasping board (cheese grater will do), a whisk. 3)Prepare mentally for spending ten minutes in your kitchen doing nothing but grating a bar of soap.
step 1;
Take the bar of soap you have purchased to your kitchen table. The best soap is of course ecologically friendly soap. To know what is a good ecologically friendly soap, check that it's made of vegetable based fat, that it is not tested on animals and that it is 100% bio degradable. My favorite type of soap is Castile Soap. My second favorite soap is Sunlight Soap, but I have yet to find the evidence that this is not tested on animals. Sunlight soap is the stuff your grandmother used to wash her clothes. It was introduced in the US at around 80 years ago and it got a bad name because the product was marketed in bright yellow packaging. This resembled an instant drink and tonnes and tonnes of yanks found themselves making, then sniffing, then DRINKING the soap! OK. Get your grate out. It is of course best to pulverize the bar of soap as best as you can. But the process can be tedious, so a rough guide is that the whole bar of soap should not take you longer than around ten minutes of hard work grating. If you have a kitchen blender and want to use it, you can do that too, but don't blame me for soaping up your food if you don't manage to clean this thing afterwards. .
step 2: