Household Recipes: Soap Base for Laundry Liquid

I haven't used shop bought laundry detergent for the last year and love making my own. I'm very proud that I don't buy products from companies that spend more time on making up fancy words for ridiculous advertising campaigns and fake science rather than care for their consumers!

Here's the recipe for the cold process soap which I dilute into laundry liquid once it has cured for a while:

1000g vegetable shortening (Trex)

350g water

135g lye

More on how to dilute the soap base in time...