'Spring cleaning is an Ajax job!'
Advertisement for Ajax cleaning products (1964).
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I was locked in a picture frame and a screen dialogue popped up with a laundry detergent ad, and the timer to skip was 30 seconds long- but the skip button never appeared.
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Sometimes memes are for you and the three people on tumblr that might give you a pity reblog
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Reasons to make your own laundry detergent:
Save money!
Decrease your plastic consumption!
Control what is going into your detergent!
Recipe and the financial break down are under the cut:
HOMEMADE LAUNDRY DETERGENT
1 bar Fels Naptha (or similar) soap
1C Washing Soda (165g)
1C Borax (165g)
5Ga Water (19L)
Grate the soap bar.
Heat one gallon (3.8L) of water on medium-low. Add the grated soap bar and stir. Allow the soap to completely melt.
Add the washing soda and the borax, stir. Allow mixture to simmer until ingredients are dissolved.
Pour the soap mixture into a five gallon container.
Add the remaining water. Use only hot water for this, to prevent soap from congealing.
Stir the detergent well and you're done!
THE FINANCIAL BREAKDOWN*
Initial costs:
$1.25 Fels Naptha
$15.00 Washing soda, 1 box (55oz)
$9.00 Borax, 1 box (65oz)
$25.25 TOTAL
5 Gallons of Detergent:
$1.25 Fels Naptha
$2.18 Washing Soda
$1.11 Borax
$4.54 TOTAL
*At the time of posting, 2022/12/12; American Dollars
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How in the heck can I wash my neck
When the wash rag's on the floor.
It seems that in the mid-70s personal hygiene was at an all time low.
Reader's Digest December 1974
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Advertisement for Lux detergent, featuring an endorsement by actress Jeanne Crain (1951).
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