It’s also ridiculous how many products are just trucking water around from one place to another with a little big of active solution mixed in. We need more ‘just add water’ products available.
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.
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.
Can you use it on colored clothes? Borax acts as bleach so I’m a bit skeptical.
In my experience, yes. HOWEVER, I’m one of those “welcome to the laundry gauntlet” type people. I do not care for my clothes the way I should. Everything just get washed with little regard, unless it’s something hand made crochet or knit. But I’ve never noticed any bleaching or white spots.
i use vinegar too and i love it!
My understanding of the washing soda is to raise the pH for saponification of fats and other non-polar compounds to dissolve in water. Saponification works best with more basic solutions which is why lye is used in soap making. By reducing the pH by adding vinegar you’re neutralizing the washing soda to a degree because it reacts to create water with carbon dioxide and sodium acetate which overall makes a less effective detergent
i don’t use washing soda i use some cheap arm and hammer liquid rn cuz i’m lazy, too.
i do laundry for a whole family and our clothes are very clean and smell great!
I don’t think I’ve ever used fabric softener. -Gen Xer
Is it just me, my browser or Tesseract? I can’t for the love of Bob get a readable resolution of the screenshot. In other news, you won’t believe how many household chemicals (in the broadest sense) you can replace with standard chemicals (like natron, table salt, citric acid or vinegar). The differences are that the “magic” household chemicals might contain colorants, perfume and filler and a retail unit of them will cost about as much as a metric ton of the active ingredients.
Here’s a direct link: https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/92f7e7f1-a007-4921-b069-49f7753bbcda.jpeg?format=webp
I think it’s a Lemmy thing. on Sync if i tap the image it’s blurry unless i tap onto the post itself, which I presume links to a full resolution image instead of the compressed-to-shit thumbnail Lemmy uses for your feed
Worked okay for me, Chrome on an old Android. Tapped the image then two finger zoomed in on it, no blur.
I only get a blurry image too. I’m using the Photon web frontend. Completely unreadable.
