Home made Laundry Soap

For a while, I've been wanting to make my own laundry soap.  Today I found a recipe at Life in a Shoe:
 
HOMEMADE LAUNDRY SOAP

• 1/2 bar of Fels Naptha soap - my local hardware store stocked this at my request.  Very nice, but next I want to try Kirk's Castile Hardwater Soap, because  if our water were any harder it would be a rock.
• 1 cup borax - available at WalMart near the laundry detergent
• 1 cup washing soda - also available at WalMart near the laundry detergent
• 1 TBS glycerin - look for it near the first aid supplies

Just 4 ingredients, see?
Grate the soap; it's easy, really.  It's soft enough to easily grate it on a handheld cheese grater.  Heat til melted in 8 cups of water.  Simmer a few minutes to be sure it's thoroughly melted.  Stir in remaining ingredients until thoroughly dissolved.  Add enough cool water to make 2 gallons.
You're done.  What?  You thought it would be harder, didn't you?
Just pour into a couple of gallon jugs.  Give it a stir or a shake now and then as it cools to keep it smooth and creamy.  It will thicken as it cools.  Ours looks a lot like a thin creamy shampoo, or a jug of heavy cream.  Yummy, but don't taste it.  Just sniff.

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