We tested the cost-effectiveness of homemade laundry soap against store-bought options.
Laundry is one of those facts of life you just can't avoid. And like everything else, it's getting more expensive as the detergents we buy to keep our clothes clean keep going up in price. Walk through a supermarket aisle and you'll easily find jugs of detergent selling for $16, $20, and more. For a family that washes six, seven or eight loads of laundry every week, the cost of detergent can add up fast.
But is it worth ditching store-bought detergent for a homemade alternative? We put it to the test. Laundry soap comes in various forms — liquid, powder, pods — and at various prices. Calculating price per load, my producer Sloan Schrage and I bought the most expensive detergent we found in the supermarket aisle. That turned out to be a tub of 32 Tide Pods for $12.97. The least expensive option in the same aisle was a $2.43-gallon jug of Xtra detergent. It boasts 260 loads. We then purchased the ingredients needed to make our own laundry soap. The recipe we chose listed washing powder, borax — a soda powder said to act as a booster in detergent — and something called castile soap, which we found over in the beauty aisle.
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