Put the vinegar in the rinse, no soap in the wash and watch the rinse water drain. It will be FULL of suds. OF course you have to be able to SEE the water, mine drains into a concrete sink. I rinsed the same load of towels SEVEN times before the water ran clear. It’s disgusting how much soap stays in the clothes.
For those who sweat a lot or when you’re washing bedsheets, consider using ammonia in your wash. It works great on grease and oils.
Just don’t use it with rubberized clothes or shoes.
This.
It’s no accident that the scoop included in the box is huge.
Grab some inexpensive measuring cups and put the one that’s actually the right size for your loads in the box. One level scoop and Bob’s yer uncle for laundry. I found laundry soap going twice as far as it was before.
I swtiched to the Purex detergent/softener/dryer sheet product and I think it will save me a little money. At the laundrymat I’d go through a bottle of detergent in two trips. And it was messy. For the same price I get these handy-dandy sheets, no muss, no fuss. And they should last me at least four trips.
If you really want to save money, bring your lunch. I spend $2 max on it a day, vs $5 ot $6 if I ate out. That’s $15 a week, over $600 a year. Buys a lot of laundry detergent.
I’m not getting on you, just pointing out that the biggest savings are sometimes very easy.
If you are a brunette, you can do a vineager rinse on your hair. The smell disappates quite quickly and your hair will be really soft afterwards.
You can use baking soda as a shampoo as well. Just rub a bit on your scalp and rinse out.
My roommate in college washed her laundry in PINE-SOL. It may have been in addition to some kind of laundry detergent, I don’t remember. I just remember finding it incredibly strange, and she found it strange when she discovered that not everyone did this. I don’t guess it would damage your clothes, just seems a bit harsh for the laundry.
Not to be the nerd, but as far as vinegar goes as a soap ingredient or substitute, it’s not likely. Vinegar is an acid, and all soaps/detergents as a group of chemicals are bases. So even if it does something for the laundry in some way (whitening, odor-fighting, etc…) it doesn’t act like a soap, whose function is to remove oil particles so that water will wash away dirt. Vinegar does have a lot of uses though. It deodorizes pretty well, and I use it to clean deposits out of the dishwasher and coffee pot.