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You don't need to buy most things for your laundry (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/58998407

Fabric softener is a scam

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (12 children)

The homemade laundry detergent is so fucking good, though. No joke. My clothes have never felt cleaner. But can someone explain, if washing soda is just baked baking soda, why can't you just use the baking soda directly? If it's just to remove the moisture as they say in the pic, why bother doing it, since you're dumping it into water?

Also, get yourself a downy ball if your washing doesn't have the fabric softner section, and use vinegar. I love the way our laundry feels once we switched to vinegar.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

baking soda

washing soda

I think it's a chemical reaction that dislodges the Hydrogen from the molecule. OP said "until the water evaporates". Seems to check out with the formula.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Also the "extra" carbonate group is dislodged as carbon dioxide:

2 NaHCO~3~ (baking soda) → Na~2~CO~3~ (washing soda) + H~2~O + CO~2~

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