Myrna's Cotter Cottage Laundry Soap

Here's more than one recipe to save some money and help to keep your drains clean. They will all work well in the high efficiency washing machines as well as the older machines.
Chop up on bar of Fels-Naptha. Put in a cup or so of Boraxo and some water softener or washing soda in a LARGE pot with 9 quarts of water. Now you have some golden colored stuff in the big pot. Turn on the heat and let it simmer. Stir it whenever you feel so inclined. Don't boil it. You'll have a very clean stove after you put in a lot of elbow grease trying to clean it up if it does boil over. Save that chore for another time. When it is dissolved, put a half cup each in clean yogurt containers. A large covered pail also works. Use a half cup per wash load and don't expect it to suds. I want it to clean, not make bubbles to slow down the cleaning action. When the soap cools, it will gel. So, don't make the mistake of putting it in small-necked containers.
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Instead of Fels-Naptha use Lirio or Zote and increase the other ingredients by 2-1/2 times.
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Use Colgate's Octagon soap and use 12 Quarts of water.
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Do any of the above recipes without any water. Put in the blender and grind up really well. I use about double the Boraxo. Use two level teaspoons per wash load or less (never more). Store in a small container. Lightweight. Compact.

You can also add Oxy-Clean, or other additives, depending on the wash load.

You can do the math. It is a little over a penny a load to use. You can put directly on stains, rub it in a bit, and put the garment in the wash.

After about nine months of using this stuff at the beginning, I had occasion for a plumber to check on my sewer pipes. He was amazed at how clean they were and the fact they weren't coated with laundry scum. Not bad considering they were 80% plugged prior to using the homemade soap.