I just forwarded your post to my wife who is taking care of making our own laundry power. I can bet that she will be really happy when she will read your post. This also strengthens our motivation to move away from any commercial laundry powder at all.
(Her recipe is even simpler than the one of @delph-in-holland, but I will let her comment on this.)
Thank you @Lemouth.
I did the scientific analysis of the situation by comparing the toxicity of the two formulas in order to provide arguments on why an alternative formula like Delphine's is much better for the planet! It was fun to dig back into an old area of expertise just for one day :-)!
Delphine did the empirical research and expressed her years long experience in her article by sharing her formula. Your wife has gone on the same path, ending up with her own formula.
I am pretty sure that both of them would enjoy exchanging tips and tricks. She is French too and digs into various areas to look for sustainable solutions. Putting their experiences in common, Who knows, they might even come up with The Optimal Formula :-)!
We actually started to move away from the industry for the reason we have not control on what is in the powders (same holds for soap, skin creams, etc...). We are not against the industry, but we want to know what the products we use everyday are made of. And today, it is sad to say that the only way is thus to make everything by ourselves. We are far from there, but getting closer and closer ;)
Lol :)
"We are not against the industry, but we want to know what the products we use everyday are made of. "
That is exactly the point!
Industrialization is related to demography, and needed for a dense society to develop.
But today, trust is gone...
I just read your post that I found really interesting. I will also read that of Delphine to learn more about his own homemade laundry recipe. For my part, I wanted to try this experiment for several reasons (including the one mentioned by @lemouth). Another one he didn't mention is the extremely fragile skin of our second son and my categorical refusal to put him to corticoids ...
As for my recipe, it is really very basic: water, Marseille soap, soda crystals and vinegar. I do not yet have the necessary perspective to judge the effectiveness of this recipe since I'm at my first experience in this area! ;)
Yes, it is a very wise choice to not use industrial detergents when washing the clothes of your second son. For example, by personal experience, polyphosphates and pyrophosphate can have quite aggressive on the skin, and some additives that can even be sensitizers (exposure can make a person become very allergic to it in the future, even when exposed to extremely minute dose of the additive) !
The two formulas are similar actually. But Delphine (@delph-in-holland) is the expert on the practical effects, I'll let her comment :-)
Please, let us know how happy you are with the results of your first formula !
I will surely write some post on the subject in the future ;) Your expertise had been very helpful to understand "why" it was better like this! Thanks to you!
@lemouth, I am curious to know your wife's recipe!
She is @lamouthe on steemit. I forwarded her both your link and the one of @muphy. But we are Dec 30th... Don't expect an answer before a few days ;)