Mum shares incredible laundry detergent hack saving £60 a month
Mum shares incredible laundry detergent hack saving £60 a month
Transcript
00:00 So last year I did this, I'm doing it again this year. I've made washing powder out of
00:04 conkers, I've got loads of it in the fridge already and I'm going to show you exactly
00:08 how I've done it. I'd like to say it's completely free but it's pretty much free. So what you
00:14 need to do is you need to go and get yourself loads of conkers and glass jars. Getting
00:22 the kids involved, you bash the conkers up so that they break into lots of pieces, so
00:27 they're getting their little hammers out, bashing them apart. Before anyone comes to
00:32 me for the kids using the hammers, they literally just had a little turn but obviously they
00:36 can't bash them hard enough to do it so no one can come for me for that. Right then you
00:41 just literally, I've got all of them in here all bashed up, look, and then you boil your
00:46 kettle. So I did this last year because the baby has got really really bad asthma and
00:51 it's completely natural, there's no added chemicals and things like that because it's
00:56 literally just conkers and water. Conkers have a natural stain remover in them called
01:03 saponins which you find in all of your normal laundry detergent. Obviously everything else
01:11 added in there, all the chemicals are not added in. So I found that our clothes, one
01:17 smelled great, two were lovely and clean and three helped remove the stains as well. So
01:23 when you add the water in, you leave it to sit for like an hour or so and then it makes
01:28 this frothy solution that I'll show you as we go through. So just literally just waiting
01:33 for the kettle to boil. Right so I've put the boiling water in from the kettle, just
01:37 enough, there's obviously not quite as much in this jar, just enough to cover it all so
01:41 they can soak. You can see all the bubbles slowly starting to come up to the top and
01:45 then that's what happens. So I'll come back in about an hour and see what's happening.
01:50 Oh there you go, you can see it here look, all coming out. So I'll give it about an hour
01:55 and I'll come back and show you. Right it's probably been about half an hour and as you
02:01 can see it's gone like a cloudy solution. You can use a sieve, I just hold the lid over
02:09 and just pour it out. You'll then bubble, all those bubbles on the top there look, that's
02:19 because of all of the saponins. So this is why you need so many jars. So I've filled
02:30 that jar up and then I'll reboil the kettle and fill them up again and I'll probably do
02:35 that about 5 or 6 times. Obviously you have to leave it longer each time as you go along
02:41 just so that the solution is diluted enough. But once you've done it you can put that in
02:46 the fridge and then just use it as and when you need to. Just pop it straight in the washing
02:51 machine like you would do any other normal laundry detergent and then I just pop my softener
02:56 in and happy days, the washing comes out lovely.