Tips on How to Make Your Own Laudry Detergent

There are only three main ingredients when making your very own laundry detergent. Washing soda, Borax and a shaved bar of soap. While there are hundreds of different brands out there for our picking, it is always best to make your own right at home, knowing you are not going to make use of harmful chemicals for you and your household to inhale.

Truth be told, laundry detergents are one of the basic things a household needs. This is also why brands are coming up with different variants to entice the consumers. This is evident from all the advertisements we see from metal buildings, even on billboards on national highways.

When you make your own laundry detergent, you actually only pay a fraction of what branded laundry detergent will cost you. 

Fabric Care Tips: Ariel Experts vs. 100 Challenge

One of the things that we do on a regular basis around the house but often take for granted is the laundry. We are guilty of using just about any detergent to get the job done. How important is it to use the right detergent for our fabrics?

This was emphasized during the Ariel Experts vs. 100 Challenge held last Wednesday at Teatrino, Promenade in Greenhills. As soon we got in to register, we were asked to spot which one of the two models was wearing a new shirt. It was really so hard to tell that even as I have been the sole person taking care of our laundry in the last nine years, I answered wrong.

Expert #1 President of Metropole Laundry and Dry Cleaners, Inc.

Expert #2 Patrick Tan, Senior Store Operations Manager of Bench.

“With Ariel, our focus has always been to provide the latest detergent technology to moms to give them the perfect clean that they’ve always wanted,” said Ariel Country Marketing Manager, Danish Rahman.

“Ariel actually has a unique oxybleach system that consists of a bleach activator which decolorizes and removes the stain in the wash, plus photo-bleach, which is activated by sunlight during drying to provide additional bleaching effects and even enzymes that care for your clothes as it prevents ‘himulmol’. Through this advanced technology that removes stains really well, Ariel is able to keep your clothes looking like new.”

What got me really interested as the event came to a close was Ariel’s newest product that Danish Rahman mentioned. A stain remover that you just dab on the stained part, throw the stained piece of clothing in the washer and stain is to come off. I won’t have to do a second stain removing effort after the washing. Sweet!

As for Ariel’s over all performance, I can personally vouch that it is good. I started using it in 2004. It is not the cheapest brand, true. But the thing about it is, I only need a few scoops every 7kg load of laundry (that’s the total capacity of my automatic washer). Ariel certainly does its job and I really end up happy with how fresh and "himulmol" free our newly washed clothes turn out.

Comforters in the Washer

One wise thing that you can do to prevent your precious comforters from clumping when you have them washed is place a couple of tennis balls into the washer with it.  This helps in evenly distributing the whole weight of the comforter inside your washer.  

This tip can also be applied in fluffing up those flattened pillows. Try it! :D