NEYAS's Recipe:
Ingredients:
For 1 liter of laundry detergent, you will need:
– a 1-liter glass container with a lid.
– 17 g of Marseille soap flakes.
– 17 g of baking soda.
– 15 g of soda crystals.
– 900 ml of water (you need to leave room for the ingredients and for stirring).
– 20 drops of essential oil.
If you have a lot of white laundry in your load, you can add sodium percarbonate to brighten whites. For 1 liter of detergent, plan for 11 g of sodium percarbonate.
Recipe:
Heat the water in a saucepan.
When it starts to boil, add the soap, baking soda, and soda crystals.
(and percarbonate if needed).
Stir until the soap flakes are completely dissolved.
Let it cool slightly and transfer it into one of your old detergent bottles.
Once the mixture has cooled, add the essential oil of your choice: true lavender (lavandula angustifolia) and grapefruit (citrus paradisii) especially for babies or during pregnancy, petitgrain bigarade (citrus aurantium amara), monoi, mint, lemon... .
Avoid myrrh, frankincense, benzoin, litsea cubeba, tangerine oils... which could stain clothes.
Be careful, as it cools, the mixture may slightly solidify in the bottle. This can happen if the detergent concentration is too high relative to the amount of water.
Simply run the bottle under hot water and shake vigorously. You can also add a little more hot water to dilute it further.
Pour 10 cl of the mixture into your washing machine's detergent dispenser.
1 liter of this detergent allows you to do 100 washes !!!!!
A brief history of laundry...
In PREHISTORIC times (100,000 –30,000 BC), prehistoric man washed himself and cleaned his clothes using only water.
In ANCIENT TIMES (2500 BC - 476 AD, approximately 3000 years), Romans used public laundries called "fullers' workshops," where employees washed clothes using certain detergents (soap, tallow, etc.). Human or animal urine was commonly used as a cleaning agent in ancient times. The first "primitive" soap was obtained from wood ashes and other plants, extracted with water. The word soap is said to come from the name of a hill in Rome, Sapo Hill, where animals were sacrificed and burned. The tallow, i.e., animal fat, and the ashes from the pyre were carried by the rain flowing down the hill, mixing with the clay soil to the edge of the Tiber. Its use originated in the East before spreading to the West.
In the Middle Ages, people began to have a superstitious fear of water, believing it carried diseases. Clothes were only washed after being worn for several months with soap. In Northern European countries, soap was made from animal fats; in Mediterranean countries, like Southern France, soap was made from olive oil.
During the Renaissance (1450 –1700), doctors feared the spread of contagious diseases and advocated bathing every day! In France, soap was made on a small scale from goat tallow and birch ashes. In the 17th century, the first industrial soap factory was built in Toulon.
In the 18th and 19th CENTURIES, personal cleanliness went hand in hand with industrial development (the first washing machine was created in 1850).
In the 20th and 21st CENTURIES, until the Great War, every farm had a wash tub for laundry. During the two World Wars, research in detergents was accelerated due to shortages of animal and vegetable fats and the armies' need to clean uniforms in cold, hard water.
Soap-based products were gradually replaced by synthetic detergents derived from petroleum, vegetable oils, and animal fats.