Your Ideas - Laundry Soap

I know you all have great ideas, you're just checking out this blog to get more good ideas.  So I want to hear your creative tips too.

Here's one I got from a friend of mine for homemade laundry soap/detergent.

Homemade Liquid Laundry Soap-Front or Top Load Machine

4 cups hot tap water
1 Fels-Naptha soap bar 
1 cup Washing Soda
1/2 cup Borax

-Grate or shred the bar of Fels-Naptha soap. Add it to the saucepan with 4 cups of hot tap water. Stir continually over medium-low heat until soap dissolves and is melted.

-Fill a 5-gallon bucket half full of hot tap water. Add melted soap, washing soda, and Borax. Stir well until all powder is dissolved. Fill bucket to top with more hot water. Stir, cover, and let sit overnight to thicken.

-Stir and fill a used, clean, laundry soap dispenser half full with soap and fill rest of way with water. Shake before each use (will gel). (This is optional. I do not do this). 

Optional: You can add 10-15 drops of essential oil per 2 gallons. Add once soap has cooled. Ideas: lavender, rosemary, tea tree oil.

Yield: Liquid soap recipe makes 10 gallons or 5 gallons if you do not dilute it.

Top Load Machine- 5/8 cup per load (approx 180 loads)

Front Load Machine- 1/2 to 1 cup per load (approx 640 loads)