How to make environmentally friendly laundry liquid soap with
Marseille soap flakes:
You can buy Le serial Marseille soap flakes or grate Marseille soap
block using a cheese grater (make sure the soap is dry)
Recipe:
Boil 1 litre of water in a pot; when water starts boiling take pot away
from stove, wait for 5 minutes and put 50 grs of Marseille soap flakes in the
pot; stir with a wooden spoon for 10 mns until soap has completely dissolved in
water.
Add 1 dessert spoon of bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) and 1 dessert
spoon of white vinegar (to soften the linen). Stir for 2 minutes.
You can add essential oils if the soap flakes are unscented.
When the liquid starts cooling down transfer it into a bottle and wait
for 12 hours before use.
The mixture will get solid after that; shake the bottle before each use
to make it more fluid;
Put 10mls of mixture in your washing machine (same compartment as were
you usually put washing powder or in the drum); it can be use in cold wash but
it’s more efficient in 30 degres celsius program.
The mixture can as well be used to hand wash linen in a bucket with warm
water;