sewbeadit

Where do you get the washing soda? Never heard of it and I am oooolllllddddddd.

himnherr

I buy mine at Walmart or Dillons/Kroger. It is in the detergent aisle. It looks like a big box of baking soda only it's a bright yellow not the gold color of baking soda. Mine is made by Arm & Hammer.

Baby Catcher

I just bought the ingredients and made the powdered version. The Fels naptha soap is really strong smelling! I have a load of towels I just washed and they are in the dryer. I hope the strong smell didn't stay on the towels. I'll let you know.

kathome

Using the recipe that I follow, the scent of the Fels Naptha is strong in the bucket (I make the powdered kind) but once out of the washer, I don't have much of a scent at all. Maybe you used too much Fels Naptha????

Baby Catcher

Towels are out of the dryer and came out clean, soft, and fluffy! No scent at all. The soap was really strong when I grated it so I was worried it would stay on the laundry but it didn't. I will recommend this to my daughters and patients.

libbiebean

I use the Fels, Borax, Washing Soda, the liquid form. Totally happy with it. Is your recipe different? Alwys interesting in trying something new.

postal packin' mama

How much water? Just 'some' water to boil it in and then add additional water to bring it up to 2 gallons?

sharon b

Where do you get the Fels bar soap ?

Fabriholic

I have thought about making this soap, but I have used Tide for coldwater for several years now. Can anyone tell me if this works in coldwater? I have 2 bars of the fels naptha soap from when I cleaned out my parents' house. (If I recall correctly my mom had used the soap if we got cuts or scrapes? Anybody know??)

TanyaL

I grated my bar of Fels Naptha soap and tried to dissolve some of it in cold water, then warm water. It wouldn't dissolve. So I went ahead and boiled and simmered the soap and made the liquid mixture because I thought that if I couldn't get it to dissolve in a pan of water it wasn't likely to dissolve in the washing machine. The dissolving seemed to depend on the temperature of the water not the amount of agitation of the water.