Savings with Laundry Soap

If you are a fan of Pinterest you should know by now all the recipes that are offered to make homemade laundry soap. The one I use is on the Duggars website. With a drooling messy toddler my laundry load has doubled and so has the stains on the laundry. 
This soap works and although my cloths don't come out smelling like a perfume factory, I have fresh clean cloths for cheap!

How much am I actually saving? 

So I do about 6 loads of laundry a week, sometimes this changes depending on what is going on that week. Also, this does not count my diaper laundry (I use a separate detergent for that)

I wash my sheets once a week and Ben's greasy work clothes twice a week. Everything else is regular wash.

Time to do some math here-

If I were to buy laundry soap I would use...

Walmart - All Free&Clear: $11.97 for 96 loads-4 months
Estimated amount for Homemade laundry soap: $2.00 per batch 3-4 months

By-the-way each batch is about 10 gallons.

I use a little under a cup per load. I can't give you an exact estimate but if you think about it you are still paying less!

Savings:  $30 per year!

This factor could change if you use a different detergent with different prices and such, so you could actually be saving more than you may think.

The savings would increase if I had a HE washer, and with plans of having another baby that's even more of a savings. Like I said, there are many different kinds of ways to make your own laundry detergent, this is just what works for us Barrows'.


Research, take a look out there, try different ones to fit your life style. I'll be posting a video on this soon so that maybe you can get a better idea of how to DIY!

Thanks for reading! Stay tuned!

Love, Jess