Did you watch Fringe recently, Episode 6B? The one where Walter breaks out the old formula for "amber" so he can encase the entire block to stop the breach in to our world from becoming a vortex. It was tense for a moment when he prompted Broyles to flip the switch on the amber machine and Peter and Olivia had not made it safely out of the apartment complex yet.
It reminded me of a tense moment on the back porch recently. I am no whiz in the kitchen, yet I can whip up a batch of homemade laundry soap like no other. I really like making it also. It doesn't take long and has been tested to work great.
I used a Fels Naptha bar this time as opposed to my favorite Kirk's Castile original formula laundry bar soap. The fact that Fels Naptha is yellow seemed to the only obvious difference at first. I always double the ingredients for my laundry soap. It creates a thicker formula that is more gelled and not as egg flower soupy as the directions described. Then we just use half the recommended measure and it works great.
I poured my warm melted soapy mix into my little white buck and added the recommended amount of water and instantly new something was different. This mixture jelled immediately. I was stirring a concoction that was like wet cement. A usual batch may not fully gel for one to two days. As this bucket sat and cooled on the table I checked on it. I carefully opened the lid and tapped with with my finger. That is rite, I tapped it and a substance like Jell-O responded. That is when I rushed it to the back porch where it belonged. This amber mixture was either going to encase the back porch along with all of it's contents or is was not.
I eagerly check on my bucket of amber the next day to find it still where I placed it. I could not help to peak around the corner when Destry decided to use it to start a load. I watched him as he muscled a scoop of amber out of the bucket a plopped into the wash machine. Then in a second thought reached into the machine and broke the chunk of amber up with his hands just to make sure it dissolved all the way.
Here is the recipe for Homemade Laundry Soap; http://www.thefamilyhomestead.com/laundrysoap.htm
