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Can you provide a link for making homemade laundry detergent? Thanks!
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Sure. I wasn't logged on for that post for some reason. Oops! I make liquid or gel detergent so that's what my recipe is for. Its the same as just about any liquid detergent recipe out there. I like to add more borax and washing soda and I also add tea tree oil to it at the end. You can add other essential oils if you'd like and it will make it smell different. If you add nothing, it smells like nothing. Nothing is really exact. If you add a little more it doesn't mess anything up.

Ingredients:
1 bar fels naptha (you can also use ivory, zote, castile, bonners)
1 cup washing soda. Not baking soda. You'll find this in the laundry aisle in stores.
1 cup borax. Again, in the laundry aisle. Some stores may have it by cleaning supplies if its not by laundry.
Water
stock pot
wooden spoon
2-3 containers. I scrounged up a few old laundry soap containers, but you can probably find good solutions at a dollar store.
Funnel is very helpful but you could probably make it without it.

Directions:
Grate the soap using a cheese grater. Put it into the stock pot, fill the stock pot about halfway with water. Heat it up on the stove top unti lthe soap melts. If you let it come to a boil and don't watch it, it will boil over so be careful. Then add your borax and washing soda. Stir it in until it dissolves and let it simmer for a few minutes. Get your containers ready, then distribute the solution equally between the containers. I usually end up using 3 and it usually ends up being about 5-7 cups per container for me. Add water to double the liquid in the container, stir well (or shake if you have a good top on it) then let it sit overnight. It will gel during that time and you can either use it concentrated like that, or add a little more water to thin it out. Stir or shake if you add water to mix it. I use about a 1/2 cup per load. Shake before using. I don't have HE machines, but I've been told this soap is just fine in them. You still want to add it to the drum if its an HE machine.

Edit: The "other uses" I referred to originally is that I know a few people who use this to clean counters and things like that. It does also work well as a pretreat for bad stains. If you add essential oils, add them at the end.
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Original Message Rady Ananda
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Survival food storage practice doesn’t require Mormon membership, but the tradition, wrought from their first Utah winter, is worth emulating should disaster strike or technology fail, two survival books by Mat Stein. This guide, Part 2 of my survival series, relies on Stein’s books, and websites dedicated to survival preparedness.

At its most basic, food storage wisdom demands that you buy what you eat, and organize and label the boxes or bins with contents and date. Stocks should be rotated based on shelf-life longevity. Using Stein’s general guide, when properly packaged and stored, various foods last several months, years or decades, as follows:

10 years or longer: Honey, sugar, salt, soy sauce, apple cider vinegar, black pepper, Worcestershire sauce and wheat berries.

5-10 years: Most dried legumes and whole grains, dehydrated cheese, instant or vacuum-packed coffee, baking powder, powdered eggs and frozen butter.

Up to 5 years: Processed (partially hydrogenated) liquid vegetable oils, Crisco shortening, cornmeal and corn flour, and nonfat powdered milk.

2-3 years: Bullion cubes, cornstarch, white rice, powdered gelatin, white wheat flour, white flour pasta, tapioca, textured vegetable protein, hydrogenated peanut butter, catsup, canned salmon and sardines, most dried fruits, and most other canned foods except meats, some fish and fruits, as well as sprouting seeds (alfalfa, mung, soybean, wheat, etc.).

Up to 18 months: Canned meats and seafood (halibut, mackerel, tuna and shrimp), unshelled raw nuts, dry active yeast, bagged snack chips, cake mixes, dry pudding, herbal and black teas, bottled juices, most seasonings and extracts, jams and jellies, canned non-citrus fruits (blackberries, blueberries, cherries, pears, peaches, plums, etc.), cranberry sauce, pickles, canned rhubarb, and sauerkraut.

Learn more: [link to www.activistpost.com]

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