This laundry soap can be used for top loading and HE machines, it is low suds.
On this Page:
- Surfactant Defined
- Laundry Soap Ingredients
- The Benefits of Natural Laundry Soap
- The "Glitch" Of Natural Laundry Soap
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1. Surfactant - What is it? Why is it important?
Soap by itself can leave soap build up, and if you use just plain soap in your laundry, it can build up soap residue in your washing machine, its parts and eventually the surface your cloths. This is why laundry soap / detergent (often these terms are interchangeable) needs a SURFACTANT.
What a surfactant (surfac(e)tant) does is to break the the surface of the water in the washing machine / on the cloths, then the laundry soap can access the dirt in the clothing, & not leave a residue in the machine, because it has accesses to the dirt and is washed away.
Soap needs friction to clean, which is why it is perfect for washing hands and your person, and the really old washing machines, and its the friction that causes it to break the surface. Older washing machines were build better years ago and their agitation could cause soap to break the surface of the water, but washing machines today are not build with the same quality.
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2. Laundry Soap Ingredients
The following Natural Ingredients make up 99.98 % of the laundry soap
Water, Borax (sodium borate), Washing Soda (sodium carbonate)
It has the following Surfactants that help make up the remaining %
Sodium Palmate, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Palm Kernel Acid
Sodium Cocoate, Coconut Acid
Sodium Chloride
3. The Benefits of Natural Laundry Soap
- No chemicals - or minimal
- Most have no scent
- Mild in nature
- Environmental Friendly
4. The "Glitch" Of Natural Laundry Soap
This happens with ALL true scent free Natural Soap.
(Note: the following effect can be slow and unnoticeable, or slight for a short time, depending on your lifestyle. )
Natural Laundry Soap will clean the cloths, and over time also strip excessive build up of chemical laundry soap and any chemical scents that have been buried in the fibres of clothing.
What does this mean?
It means your cloths will come out clean, but as it strips the chemical scent you may start to smell something like a musty smell - its old body odor. Yes - ewwwwww
The natural detergent has unmasked the chemical detergent, and any hidden body odor buried in the fibres.
Does that surprise you? That the chemical soap masked the body odor? And did not get it out? A lot of the chemical laundry soaps are bleach that do make the cloths look clean, or smell falsely clean.
Keep washing your laundry in the natural soap and it will take this odor out. As to how long it depends on you, and your family and how much they sweat, and how long the cloths sit before being washed.
To speed up the process, if this happens to you, put your laundry into the washer, if its top loading, or a tub if its not, soak in 4 - 10 times the normal natural laundry soap and lit it sit for 24 - 48 hours, occasionally stirring . You want to let it sit so the soap can penetrate the fibres and destroy the odor. You can let it sit a week if you want, say you have teenage boys. You will notice the liquid start to change colour the longer it sits, that is the body sweat is pulled out of the cloths.
When you are done letting it soak, pour out all of the liquid, add fresh water and add some vinegar, a cup should do, but do what you feel is right. Let it soak again, for a couple of hours, not dayss, then drain the liquid and do a normal washing load.
