Using Pure Soap Flakes To Care For Baby’s Laundry
January 25, 2012 
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One of the best things you can do for your baby is to stay away from harsh detergents. Pure soap flakes with no additives are completely safe for baby’s skin and health. Using them in combination with the other ingredients our grandmother’s used can help to keep baby well.
It’s getting very popular to make your own recipes for laundry soap. Doing a basic Google search with the search term “homemade laundry soap” in quotes yields about 1,320,000 results. That’s a lot of people interested in making laundry soap and sharing information about it! Some people are even making money on eBay by selling laundry soap making kits. Often the people making their own laundry soap are young mothers who are conccerned for their families’ health.
Old fashioned soap flakes are hard to find. Years ago, it was common to find Ivory Soap Flakes on the grocer’s shelf. Now they seem to be just a relic on eBay, where you can find plenty of the old soap flake tins that Ivory used to make.
Recently, lots of people have begun using a homemade soap recipe to make their own soaps and laundry soaps, too. People of all ages enjoy making home made soap and laundry detergent. If you do a search for “make your own soap” or “make your own laundry detergent”, you will find lots of information on how it’s done. You’ll also get an idea of how many people are viewing videos on using homemade natural soap.
Actually, good, old-fashioned soap flakes can be used for all kinds of soap making recipes .
Here’s what the Healthy Planet Fundraising website says about the flakes they sell:
“Healthy Planet Soap Flakes are made from 100% pure cold pressed coconut oil with trace essences of patchouli and citronella oils.
Coconut oil is rich in lauric acid, providing the added benefit of being able to fight the viruses, bacteria and fungus lurking in every home. The cold process method retains all of the naturally-occurring glycerin and emollients that help moisturize the skin, and doesn’t leave your body feeling dry and itchy as commercial soaps often do.
The flakes quickly and easily remove all dirt from your most delicate clothing, without causing any irritation on the skin. They also produce a dense, creamy lather that’s good for shaving, too.
You can even use Healthy Planet Fundraising’s Soap Flakes to make soap crayons or beautiful molded soaps of your own to give as gifts! (There are instructions below AND on the canister they sell). And because they are completely biodegradable, they’re good for the planet, too! ”
Here are just some of the many uses for Soap Flakes:
You can use them to launder delicate items, including wool, cashmere, and silk. You can use it to safely clean children’s toys. Washing fragile porcelain, crystal & glassware safely is easy, using soap flakes. You can even use them to shampoo pets, show dogs, and show horses! Soap flakes may be Used for making crafts, such as soap crayons, decorative soaps, and making frost for holiday trees. Safely wash walls, wallpaper, wood and vinyl flooring – even Wash boats, cars, and motorbikes, with no harm to the environment or your health!
Healthy Planet Fundraising’s web page actually tells you how to make decorative soap out of soap flakes to make for family members or teachers! It’s kind of like making French milled soap, but without the added step of having to grate it. French milled soap is a process by which soap is made, then, when it hardens, it is grated and boiled down again to make a much finer bar. Often essential oils are added at that point to make a fine scented soap.
They don’t say on their website whether they carry wholesale soaps, but you could contact them through their site, if that’s something that interests you. They also have very cool recipes on making other cleaning products using ingredients found in the typical kitchen pantry, such as lemon juice, baking soda, Kool-aid and liquid castile soap.