To finish off our month of “All Things Green“, I want to focus on saving you money today, by giving you a recipe of a product that most of use every day in our home! Anytime I can save the GREEN in my wallet, I’m a happy camper! 🙂
Homemade Fabric Softener
Ingredients:
6 cups HOT water
3 cups White Vinegar
2 cups Suave Conditioner (your choice)
Directions:
(I had to split this recipe in half to begin with to be able to make the recipe in my blender.)
Blend 3 cups of HOT water and 1-cup of Suave Conditioner in a blender until the conditioner is dissolved. Add in 1-1/2 cups of white vinegar, and blend another 30 seconds. Pour into a 2 liter bottle. Mix remaining ingredients into a blender as directed above and repeat the same process. Pour into 2nd 2-liter bottle and into a 1-pint jar.
Pour into a downy ball… or use approximately 2 Tbsp. in the fabric softener section in your washing machine, then wash and dry the load. Shake well before each use.
I paid 96-cents for a bottle of Suave Conditioner.
I paid $1.00 for a bottle of White Vinegar
The water…well, that didn’t cost me anything!!
The recipe makes 151.6 ounces.
So is it safe to make this in the same blender that you use to prepare food? I’m a bit leery of putting conditioner in my blender, cleaning it, and then blending up my food! LOL!
Think about it this way, we use soap to clean our blender and then we use it to put our food in. It’s really no different. Just wash it out really good and then rinse! 🙂 If you don’t feel comfortable using your blender, put it in a large jar and then shake it up really good. I used my blender, and since then I’ve made smoothies and salsa in my blender, and it works just fine! 🙂 I didn’t even bubble up after I ate some salsa!! LOL
most interesting! i’ll give it a try! thanks, christi, for this month of ‘green’ things! <3
It’s been FUN!! Thanks Coleen!