Laundry Soap

Here's the website with the 10 soap recipes.
http://tipnut.com/10-homemade-laundry-soap-detergent-recipes/

Nancy uses Recipe #2:

Hot water
1 cup Washing Soda
1/2 cup Borax
1 Soap bar................ White Castle,Zote,Fels Naphtha,Lirio

Grate the bar soap and add to a large saucepan with (4 cups) hot water. Stir over medium-low heat until soap dissolves and is melted.
Fill a 5 gallon pail half full of hot water (from tap). Add the melted soap, Borax and Washing soda, stir well until all powder is dissolved. Top the pail up with more hot water.
Use 1 cup per load, stirring soap before each use
Home Depot sells their 5 gallon buckets and lids. for around $3-4.00
get a wood paint stick (from Home Depot) the ones for 5 gl buckets,for stirring before each use.

For those of you with questions about using this laundry soap in your HE, here's the website with more info: http://www.stretcher.com/stories/07/07jan01a.cfm