Laundry Gloop - Gloopy Thread !!!

mcculloch29

Sunlight... ah memories. It seems strange that even tho' a suburb was named after it in the UK (Port Sunlight) we can't get it here. (Apart from at a price on Amazon.)

BitterAndTwisted

Have you had a look on the carbolicsoap.com website? Their price is £2.79 for two bars, but I don't know how that price compares to Amazon. Got any friends in South Africa who can send you any? It's as cheap as chips there.

Thinking about it, I can't see why you couldn't use carbolic for gloop although it may not smell as nice as Sunlight.

tessasmum

http://www.mopanitrading.co.uk/Sunlight-Soap-250g/prod_53.html

This company specialising in South African products but based in the UK has it in stock at £1.25 for a 250g bar plus postage.

simplicity

mcculloch29 wrote: »

I put together this recipe / method from various threads and websites and thought I would add it as it really worked well. Some of the recipes and methods on the Net are so poorly written (not those here!) that they are really difficult to decipher.

Laundry Gloop

Equipment req.

1 v. large saucepan (stockpot is ideal)
1 wooden spoon
Jug
Bucket or similar v. large plastic storage container with lid.

For the gloop:

1 bar of ordinary soap, finely grated (c. 100g in weight if you are wanting to grate up unloved mini soaps that have sat in the bathroom for years.)
8 oz (250 g) washing soda
8oz (250g) borax or borax substitute (not essential but stops gloop from foaming and acts as deodoriser)
9 litres hot water.
A few drops of essential oils (not necessary, but adds a bit of scent)

Method.

Grate the soap as finely as you can. Old, hard soaps seem to grate the best.
Put grated soap in the large pan and add one and a half litres of boiling water. Bring this to a simmer on the stove and stir until dissolved. When the soap has dissolved, add the washing soda and borax together and stir until this is fully dissolved.

Remove the pan from the heat and allow this to cool SLIGHTLY then pour into a bucket or other large receptacle, pref. one with a lid.

Add up to 8 litres of hot water, pop lid on and allow to set in a cool place.

Mine took about eight hours to set.
When set, it will look like blancmange.
To use:
Add a small cupful directly to the DRUM of your washing machine (not the dosing drawer) with the laundry.
If you have v.smelly laundry you may wish to add a scoop of Oxy -clean type granules to the dosing drawer.
Each washload will cost me about 2p, I calculated. It would have been 1p if I hadn't used the borax.
The borax is actually borax substitute - there's no need to order this from the States, it's made in the UK by a company called Dri Pak. They do mail order.

Hello all,

I had avoided making up a batch of laundry gloop as my costco huge bucket of powder lasted our family of 6 nearly a year so very economical. However recently I have become more itchy from pregnancy and thought i'd make my own batch to see if it is any more gentle.

I have just followed the exact recipe from above but replacing borax with biotex for stain removing properties. Borax was a nightmare to find. My question to you all is how gentle a cleaner is this? With the addition of soda crystals and biotex is it still 'green'? Would this be classed as bio or non bio? and would it be safe to use on my (to be) newborn?

Thanks

joedenise

As you've added Biotex it will be a Bio powder. If you had added borax or borax substitue it would be non-bio.

I used to use biotex for soaking my kids clothes when they were babies and didn't affect them but I suppose it really depends on the baby, some have more sensitive skin than others.

Denise

simplicity

thanks for explaining. perhaps we'll use this up before baby comes and the next batch I'll add borax.

Thank you for your response.

newgirly

Hi, I have made some hm dishwasher powder but accidently put in soda crystals instead of bicarb and it leaves everything cloudy.:o

The ingredients used were:

1 1/2 cups borax substitute
1 1/2 cups soda crystals
1 cup table salt

As its a similar receipe to gloop I was wondering if i could use it for washing intead, could I just add the grated soap and still use or might the salt do some thing horrid to the washing or machine do you think?

Thanks

pumpkinlife

It should be fine, 1 cup over several loads isn't much. I have used several cups at a time when machine dyeing fabric, it doesn't seem to do any harm. It might alter the performance of the soap though.

newgirly

Thank you I will give it a go, I hate throwing things out!

zippychick

ive merged this with our gloop thread

ZIp