Washing powder for automatic machines

The shelves of the hardware stores are simply bursting with an abundance of detergents - for manual and machine washing, for white, black and colored linen, for hard water - in a word, you can find anything you like. Nevertheless, some housewives prefer to make detergents themselves. Why, and whether it is possible to make a washing powder for an automatic machine with its own hands? All this will be discussed in our article.

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Why do I need homemade powder?

New powders, gels, pastes and liquids for washing appear almost every month. However, on closer examination, it turns out that finding what you need is not really that easy. Either the powders contain not too useful substances, or the smell is too harsh, or the product is too expensive.

Make a washing powder yourself - safer, cheaper, and time will not take much. Not to mention the fact that you can do the kind of perfume you want.

The most harmful elements of factory powders

In industrial detergents there are always surfactants. Even if you thoroughly wash linens, they can not be removed completely - they are too firmly attached to the tissues. Add them to form foam and dissolve the fats.

Why are these substances harmful?

1. Easily penetrate the body through the pores of the skin.
2. Many people have such powders causing allergies.
3. There is an opinion that they negatively affect the reproductive function.
4. Causes metabolic disturbances.

Important! In many cases, phosphate is added to the powder. They soften the water, improve the quality of washing and enhance the effect of surfactants. However, for health, the compounds of metals with phosphoric acid are not particularly useful, and only increase the negative impact of surfactants.

Having made the powder yourself, you will be firmly sure that there are no harmful substances, and this is the main advantage of such detergents. Only natural products, harmlessness of which has been checked for centuries.

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How to replace surfactants?

The main task of the detergent is to wash, that is, to remove impurities. What's the point, if it will be useful for health, and on panties and dresses there will be spots? But in a regular hardware store, pharmacy or hypermarket you will find a lot of very simple drugs, moreover, very cheap, which will successfully replace both surfactants and phosphates.

For most self-made detergents you will need:

• household or baby soap;
• drill;
• baking soda;
• calcined soda;
• vinegar.

Household soap is good in that there are practically no additives in it. That is, it by definition can not cause allergies. Instead, you can take any toilet, but the best baby without flavors.

Buru can be bought at a pharmacy, at a chemical store or where you sell goods for gardeners. There you will also find soda ash - of course, it can be made at home from ordinary food, but this is not a very pleasant process.

For preparation of softeners or paste, vinegar is needed - a usual food, with a concentration of 3% or 9%.

Before taking on the job, take care of the necessary equipment. Surely you already have everything you need:

• grater;
• several bowls;
• large glass jar or paper bag.

Features of simple substances

Baking soda has the ability to clean everything that gets caught without causing any special damage to objects. With fibers of the fabric, it comes in exactly the same way as with a kitchen sink or stove - cleans, but does not damage. In addition, it miraculously whitens and perfectly removes smells.

Important! The only thing to keep in mind is that soda sometimes "eats" the dye, so it's not worth using it for colored or black natural fabrics.

Calcined soda

This is a more effective remedy than baking soda. In principle, it is not necessary to add it, but if it is there - the washing will go faster.

Important! If it comes in the recipe of a powder for washing with your own hands, but you do not have the opportunity to buy this substance - just replace it with the same amount of baking soda.

Drill

This substance has several names:

• sodium tetraborate;
• boron sodium salt.

Bura perfectly cleanses the most diverse spots, and also has the property of disinfecting things. This is especially important if you are going to make powder for children's things.

Flavors

Fragrance is optional, but many like it when it smells of linen, lavender or anything else, just as pleasant. Nothing is impossible. You can add to your creation any essential oil.

By the way, natural oils not only give things the right flavor. They additionally disinfect the underwear and its specific effect:

• tea tree oil prevents fungal lesions;
• chamomile and lavender soothe;
• eucalyptus softens the cough;
• citrus - dissolve fats.

So you can do a new detergent powder every time for yourself, depending on what you need at the moment.

Important! Do not use perfume and deodorants for making detergents.

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Laundry detergent from soap and soda

This is the simplest recipe, so for the experiment you can choose it. You need:

• laundry soap - 150 g;
• food soda - 500 g;Calcium soda
• - 400 g;
• essential oil;
• large or small grater;
• bank for storage.

Important! Whether the tool for an automatic typewriter is suitable depends, oddly enough, on the grater:

• If it is small, the shavings will turn out to be fine too, and your product can be completely put into the detergent container.
• Soap, grated on a large grater, suitable for hand washing and activator machines.

How to cook a detergent for self-cleaning machines:

1. Scrub the soap.
2. Add soap and ordinary soda ash to the soap.
3. Stir well.
4. Add a few drops of essential oil.
5. Mix again.

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Soda, salt, soap

To prepare the powder for washing with your own hands, you can take ordinary salt instead of soda ash. The principle of manufacture is the same - the smaller the fraction, the more the tool is suitable for drum machines.

What will be required:

• baby soap or household soap - 100 g;
• food soda - 200 g;
• salt - 200 g;
• flavor.

The manufacturing process is the same as in the first case: rub, mix, place for storage.

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Recipe with Citric Acid

Citric acid is also an excellent detergent. It perfectly copes with many pollutants, so it can be used for washing dishes, and for processing kitchen furniture, and for fabrics.

For this detergent you will need:

• laundry soap - 200 g;
• baking soda - 500 g;
• calcined soda - 500 g;
• salt - 2 tbsp.l;
• citric acid - 3 tbsp.l.;
• flavor.

Start working with cooking soap - grate it. Then add the ingredients in this order:

• soda;
• salt;
• citric acid;
• flavor.

Important! Citric acid helps to preserve color, so this powder for washing by oneself is especially good for color and black materials. For whites, however, he too will do.

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Softener with Vinegar

Can I make the simplest powder from soap and soda so that it does not "eat" the dye? You can, if you add a little vinegar. The ratio is as follows:

• soap - 200 g;
• food soda - 200 g;
• calcined soda - 200 g;
• vinegar - 2 tbsp.l;
• flavor.

Vinegar is added after the soda and soap are already mixed. After adding these ingredients, the powder must be mixed again. Aromatizer in this case is very desirable, as the vinegar smell rather sharp.

Important! Vinegar can be 3% and 9%, but must be transparent, so as not to leave stains.

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Liquid detergent

Liquid and gel preparations are suitable for washing machines such as powders, which are not always well washed from the tray. You can cook this at home.

You need:

• soap - 100 g;
• soda - 200 g;
• water - 1 l;
• essential oil.

Important! To store such a tool, a glass or plastic can with a tight lid.

It is prepared as follows:

1. Scrub the soap - in this case it does not matter at all, whether it is large or small.
2. Add soda.
3. Boil the water.
4. Pour a mixture of soap and soda with boiling water.
5. Wait until the powder has dissolved.
6. Add the essential oil and mix everything.

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Tools with drill

There are several options for manufacturing detergents with borax.

Option 1

Mix grated soap, borax and soda ash in equal amounts. Try to avoid noticeable lumps.

Important! By the way, for making powders it is very useful to use a mixer, only then it must be washed very well.

Option 2

For this recipe you will need a coconut soap, but you can do without flavor. To prepare a detergent for automatic machines with their own hands, 100 g of soap shavings and 150 g of borax and soda are mixed.

Option 3

Stir 300 g of grated soap, 200 g of borax and soda ash and 100 g of baking soda. If necessary, add flavor.

Option 4

In some cases, factory water softeners can be used to prepare household powders. Soap in this case is not needed. Mix:

• for 100 g of soda ash and softener;
• 200 grams of borax and flavor.

Variant 5

This is a children's powder for washing with your hands - with disinfectant and antifungal agents.

Mix:

• fine soap shavings - 150 g:
• borax - 200 g;
• food soda - 500 g;
• tea tree oil - a few drops.

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Washing paste

This tool is also made based on borax.

Important! It can be used not only for washing, but also, for example, for cleaning kitchen furniture or sanitary ware.

To prepare a liquid detergent, you will need a bucket, a small pot and water, in addition to soda, borax and soap.

In Action:

1. Scrub 100 g of soap.
2. Put it in a saucepan.
3. Fill with cold water - it needs about 1.5 liters.
4. Place the saucepan on the stove.
5. Make a small fire.
6. Beat the contents of the saucepan until the soap dissolves.
7. Add a borax.
8. Add soda.
9. Continue to beat.
10. The mixture should increase approximately twice as much as the dough.
11. Remove the saucepan and cool at room temperature.
12. Pour in a bucket of hot water - about a quarter.
13. Put the contents of the pan in boiling water.
14. Stir.
15. Leave for 24 hours.
16. Transfer the product to a glass or plastic jar with a tight lid.

Important! This means you will last for a long time, because for a standard washing machine, only a glass of substance is consumed in the machine.

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Safety rules

You can not name the manufacture of washing powders, pastes and liquids by complex chemical processes. You have to deal with simple substances that practically can not harm you.

However, some safety rules must still be followed.

1. Work in a mask or respirator - some substances irritate the mucous membrane.
2. Use the scales - exact compliance with the proportions is necessary for washing to be effective.
3. Flavors use those that do not cause discomfort to your family members.

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How to use self-made tools?

• Detergent powders and pastes, prepared with their own hands, use exactly the same as the factory ones. Consumption is small - 1 glass of money per 5 kg of laundry.
• If you wash in an automatic machine, the powder can be placed in both the container and the drum.
• If you managed to grate the soap finely - pour the product into the tray, into the main wash compartment.
• Powder with a coarse fraction is best placed directly into the drum, it can not be washed from the tray.
• Liquid and pasty products can be placed in both a container and a drum.

Now you have several recipes at hand to experiment and pick up a detergent powder for your machine, which will fully satisfy your requirements for ease of manufacture, efficiency and gentle washing.