Making my own laundry detergent

I know, I know, why make your own laundry detergent, Tide's cheap and works well. Well, for starters, it's pennies a load, takes almost no time, and is much better for the enviroment than shipping what amounts to buckets of water around.

It's 1 cup grated Fels Naptha or other real soap (no Dove or anything like that, please), 1 cup boric acid, and 1 cup washing (not baking) soda. You cook the soap with about a quart of water until it's all dissolved, then add the powders. When that's dissolved, dump it in a half a five gallon bucket of warm water and mix mix mix. When it's dissolved, then you fill up the rest of the bucket with water, pop the lid on the bucket and let it sit over night.

You wake up to 5 gallons of wonderful smelling snot, basically. If that bothers you, just combine half and half with water, mix it up (a milk jug is awesome for this), and you can even add fragrance oil. Use 2 Tbsps or more of the gel, or 1/2 cup of the liquid, or more if you need to. And remember, Mom always says that Oxy Clean, pretreater, or Awesome is always needed to pretreat stains, no matter how good the laundry detergent is.