Homemade Laundry Soap

I have been wanting to try making homemade laundry soap, but never found the time or recipe.  A friend of mine was showing me around her house and I saw the homemade laundry soap.  I mentioned that I've always wanted to try it.  So she sent me home with a container of it.  I loved it and have since made my own batch.
Why I like it:
1- Its free of dyes and perfumes. It smells great!  Light and fresh.
 I'm 'sensitive to fragrances, but this one I like.
2-It's gentle on our skin.  We haven't had any rashes from it.In fact I think my skin and the girls' is less itchy and dry this winter because of it.  
3- It works great!  I haven't been pretreating clothes with this recipe and they still come out clean.  When needed you can water the garment and rub the Fels- Naptha on it as a pretreater.
4- Its cents per load to make.  Super cost effective!  This recipe costs about 0.71 cents to make (depending on where you purchase your supplies).  It will give you 64 loads. That is about .01 cents per load
5- I used to have a mildew or musty smell in my washer when the water fills, but after I started using this soap its gone!
6- I feel great making something homemade and natural for my family.

This is all you need to make many batches...Borax, Washing Soda,
  Fels-Naptha, and water.

Homemade Laundry Soap
1/3 bar Fels Naptha or other type of soap, as listed above
½ cup washing soda
½ cup borax powder

~You will also need a small bucket, about 2 gallon size~

Grate the soap and put it in a sauce pan. Add 6 cups water and heat it until the soap melts. Add the washing soda and the borax and stir until it is dissolved. Remove from heat. Pour 4 cups hot water into the bucket. Now add your soap mixture and stir. Now add 1 gallon plus 6 cups of water and stir. Let the soap sit for about 24 hours and it will gel. You use ½ cup per load.

Let it sit for the full 24 hours or it wont gel properly.  The consistency a watery gel, not a solid gel.

  In the picture above you can see it makes 4 half gallons.  

The soap is a low sudsing soap, so If you don't see suds, its OK.  Suds aren't what does cleaning, its the ingredients in the soap.