My Speech on Laundry Detergent By Stephanie Brown
Have you ever walked down the laundry detergent isle and noticed on your favorite detergent it reads “NEW AND IMPROVED”? How new is soap? How can you improve it?
With current economic situations, this should bring up a financial question, as well as a common sense issue to ask yourselves. According to the EPA an average American family does about 400 loads of laundry a year. Laundry detergent cost about .20 to .30 cents per loads and most people use 2 to 3 times more than the recommended amount. This habit will cost the average consumer between 75.00 – 150.00 dollars more per year on the cost of soap. Let me explain how you can avoid these high cost. For about 10-15 dollars you will be able to make enough laundry detergent to last you a few years. That’s a large amount of savings. Now let me tell you how easy it is…
Here is everything you will need..
-a 5 gallon bucket with lid
-a large pot
-spoon for stirring
-a measuring cup
-water
-3/4 cup of borax
-3/4 cup washing powder
1 bar of fels naphtha soap
All these ingredients can be found at Wal-Mart in the laundry isle. After gather everything u need, the first thing u need to do is heat up 2.5 gallons of water to boiling, while your water is coming to a boil take your hand held grater and grate your soap. For this particular recipe you will need to use the whole bar of soap. You’re probably thinking that grating a whole bar of soap will take you forever, but it actually will only take you about a minute to a minute in half. Not too long at all right? After you get your soap grated and your water has come to a boil, you now add the soap to the water, mix until the soap has dissolved. It should only take a few minutes. When your soap has finally dissolved, turn off