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Laundry Basics

This document provides instructions for basic laundry tasks. It discusses reading care labels, sorting laundry by color and soil level, treating common stains with household ingredients like dish soap and hydrogen peroxide, and making homemade laundry detergent from inexpensive ingredients like borax, washing soda, and Fels Naptha soap for significant savings compared to store brands. Key steps include sorting by color and care instructions, pretreating stains, and a recipe for laundry detergent that costs around $20 to make enough for 500-800 loads.

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Laundry Basics

This document provides instructions for basic laundry tasks. It discusses reading care labels, sorting laundry by color and soil level, treating common stains with household ingredients like dish soap and hydrogen peroxide, and making homemade laundry detergent from inexpensive ingredients like borax, washing soda, and Fels Naptha soap for significant savings compared to store brands. Key steps include sorting by color and care instructions, pretreating stains, and a recipe for laundry detergent that costs around $20 to make enough for 500-800 loads.

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Laundry basics

Components of demonstration

● Reading care labels


● Sorting laundry
● Treating stains
● Make your own laundry soap
● Basics of ironing clothing
Care Labels

● How many of you know how


to read the care label on
your clothing?
● What kind of things would
you expect to find on the
care label?
Reading the care label
What can you decipher from this care label?
Sorting laundry

● How do you sort your laundry? Do you sort by


color or do you just put everything in one load?

● Putting your laundry all mixed in one batch can


most likely come out in a disaster. Some of
your clothing may become dyed another color
or they may come out dingy looking or even
some of your clothes could become damaged.
● Sorting by colors and reading the care labels is
usually one of the best ways to do laundry.
Make sure as you sort that you remove anything
that needs to be on a delicate wash or needs to
be hand washed.
● Most of the care tags are going to say to wash
with like colors on warm or cold water and
tumble dry low.
● Make sure that you turn everything inside out.
This will protect them during the wash and help
with the fading of seams.
● Anything that is darker colored like indigos and reds are
most likely to bleed their color in the was. It is
suggested to wash them in a separate batch and inside
out for the first couple of time. You can even put them
with other clothing of that same color.
● For heavily soiled clothing was together and not with
any lightly to medium soiled clothing. Dirt (or any thing
else that is on it like grease from a mechanic shop) can
transfer and stain or make other clothing look dingy.
(after these loads especially if they are really dirty wipe
out the machine with a clean rag to get any residue out
that was left behind
Treating stains- the basics
Sorting your laundry
● To pat or to rub that is the question.
● What kind of common stains do you seem to
always be treating?

● Common household products can do the job as


well as the fancy store bought stain remover. The
following are some that are good to use and are
generally found around your home
● Dish soap
○ Use for tough food stains especially if it
is oil based stains or just plain grease
stains
● Baking soda
○ Helps clothing come out cleaner and
helps whites look less dingy. Adding ½
cup to a batch of laundry should do the
trick
● Hydrogen peroxide
○ At full strength it works on blood stains once you
put the peroxide in let it set for a few min then run
the stained area under cold water to also help lift
the stain
○ 2 parts peroxide to 1 part dish soap will help lift
grass stains, whine, chocolate, and armpit stains.
● Rubbing alcohol
○ Removes permanent marker this one you can rub
a bit as long as it is not on a delicate fabric. If you
do rub make sure that you rub a bit vigorous so
that you can get the stain out
Make your own laundry soap

● Making your own laundry soap for some


may be easier on a budget than having to
buy the store brand soap every other
month or so. Making your own in bulk can
help you save in the long run. Depending
on where you get your items for the
laundry soap you will spend between
$15-$30 for about 500-800 loads.
Laundry soap recipe

● 1-4 lb box of borax


● 1-3 lb box of laundry washing soda
● 1-1 lb box of baking soda
● 3-bars of Fels Naptha laundry bars (Irish spring original scent works
good also)
● 1-2 containers of scent booster (you can use any type of scent
booster like Downy unstoppables or even the Snuggle scent booster
packs
● 1-3 lb container oxiclean powder
● 1- Tablespoon measuring spoon (get a cheap one or use on that you
don’t use for cooking any more)
● 1-3 gal container or any container to store the soap in.
Cost analysis of laundry soap (remember price will vary depending on where you purchase your items)

● Baking soda 1 lb ---- $0.82


● Borax 4 lbs ------ $4.47
● For one package (26 count) of snuggle scent
boost packs---- $3.97
● 3 Fel naphtha bars ($0.97each)-----$2.91
● Arm and hammer super washing soda ---- $ 4.39
● Oxiclean powder stain remover 3 lbs---- $4.39
● Grand total of laundry soap = $20.95 (before
taxes)

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