Monday, November 7, 2011

The Laundry Trials: The Sequel





















So, I tried making another batch of homemade laundry detergent.
 



This time, using Zote soap and a food processor (yes, we're still alive to tell the tale).




For some reason, Zote seems like it is missing an exclamation point, to me.

Zote!

See? Am I right?
Maybe its some residual form of 1950's marketing rolling around in the back of my brain; maybe too much I Love Lucy when I was younger.

The pink soap works pretty well, and clothes come out clean and smelling nice--perhaps a little better in my opinion than they did when I used the Ivory soap, but for some reason I have a difficult time with the smell of Zote in it's dry form.  It smells like a citronella candle, which I quite like (what country gal doesn't like to be reminded of camping), but there is some undertone there that I just can't handle very well--maybe it's tallow--something, I don't know.  So, even though I like the outcome and the swell pink color ("Gee Mom, let's get ZOTE!"), I don't think this one is for me--just personal preference, you understand.

Next up in the homemade laundry soap geekery department, I'd like to dabble with some castille soap, and my cousin recommended trying the lavender-scented Yardley soap that her family uses...  Stay tuned for the next installment of...THE LAUNDRY TRIALS.


Big Hugs,
Kat


(Zote!)
hee.


3 comments:

  1. First of all, how could one EVER watch too much "I Love Lucy"? ;0)
    I bought some bars of Dr. Bronner's castille soap to use for this project.
    Keep tweaking it, girl!

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  2. Zote should definitely have an exclamation point. That's all there is to it!

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  3. I've had the best luck with Dr. Bronner's castile soap. The lavender is great, because there's no mucking about with essential oils! :-)

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