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A Laundry Bar

Posted By Suzanne McMinn On July 16, 2010 @ 1:05 am In Handmade Soaps,Primitive Crafts & Country Style | 24 Comments


Take homemade laundry detergent to the next level! Make your own homemade laundry soap to grate into your detergent mix!

Do you not make your own laundry detergent? You can find my recipe here: Homemade Laundry Detergent.

Have you been making soap? You can find my step-by-step soapmaking tutorial for hot and cold process soap here: How to Make Soap.

Read more about the different processes of making soap and what goes into soap here: Getting Ready to Make Soap: Part 1.

See all about the scary lye here: Getting Ready to Make Soap: Part 2.

And find out all about the necessary tools and utensils here: Getting Ready to Make Soap: Part 3.

If you want to develop your own recipe or test a recipe you’ve found online, use a soap calculator: SoapCalc. Do not make changes to a soap recipe without checking it through a soap calculator.

One more note: Wear safety gloves and goggles and always follow safety guidelines when making soap!

I have two recipes to share with you today, one with lard and coconut oil, and one with Crisco shortening and coconut oil. Both of these recipes make a super-sudsing and hard-grating laundry bar. Please do not substitute other brands of shortening. Shortening brands are not interchangeable! Different shortenings have different lye calculations. The shortening recipe below is formulated specifically for the regular (NOT BUTTER) Crisco.


Homemade Laundry Bar:

Coconut Oil & Lard Recipe
lard — 16 ounces or 453.592 grams
coconut oil (76-degree melt point) — 16 ounces or 453.592 grams
distilled water — 12.16 ounces or 344.73 grams
lye — 5.191 ounces or 147.155 grams

Coconut Oil & Crisco Recipe
Crisco — 16 ounces or 453.592 grams
coconut oil (76-degree melt point) — 16 ounces or 453.592 grams
distilled water — 12.16 ounces or 344.73 grams
lye — 5.134 ounces or 145.538 grams

These are two pound recipes.

Add 1 ounce of scent, if you wish. If making soap by cold process, add scent immediately following trace. If making soap by hot process, add scent after the full cook time, just before placing in molds.

I made this soap using the hot process method, which is my favorite way. You can also make it by the cold process method. See my soap tutorial for all the info on these two methods of soapmaking, and How to Make Hot Process Soap in a Crock Pot for a simplified hot process tutorial. If you haven’t tried making soap yet, why not? It’s so easy, and so much fun.

This recipe traced up very quickly using a stick blender–in about 5-6 minutes. It also cooked up in the crock pot very quickly–in about an hour.

Okay, who’s making a homemade laundry bar for their homemade laundry detergent? You can do it!

Clover says so.


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