Homade laundry soap and dishwasher soap

I found this great blog iamfrugal.blogspot.com and on it she has homemade soap. I thought I would give it a try. It was so easy to make I bought all my stuff at the local Winco for under $7. She has it all figures out that it is about $.01 per laundry load. Just to be sure it worked it I dirtied two identical rags with the same stuff and let them sit for two days. Ketchup, mustard, chocolate, oil, and permenant maker mostly just so I would know which was which. I washed them both with cold water using my old detergent (cheap winco stuff) and my new stuff. We thought that they were about equal in how much of the stain it brought out. Neither of them touched the oil, the chocolate was clean and the others were still slighly there. So I am using it. It was so easy to make and I have 2 gallons of soap now. The disherwasher detergent uses the same Borax and Super washing soda and it has worked just as well too. If anyone wants to try it before they buy, let me know, but I will charge you that penny that it does cost so this is no freebie. Haha. Check out the blog she has some amazing things on there. Have a good weekend.