For me, natural laundry soap is a must. I have serious skin allergies and certain chemicals found in big box cleaning and laundry products have been proven to cause temporal lobe seizures. No itching, redness, hives or spells. I am most impressed with how it removed odors from smells picked up from summer spent outside working and playing. People think they need highly scented laundry detergent to clean very dirty and smelly clothes but they don’t. It completely cleaned what my son and I wore after 3 hours spent in a lake removing algae (we were covered in smelly green slime), cleaned very used tennis shoes, and removed fish smells and stains from additional clothing and strong odor from clothes worn from visiting a farm. I added a little extra soap directly to some of the stains. For towels and sheets, which I like some scents, I added about 10 drops of lavender essential oils to the soap before putting it into the washer. It was faint but just perfect.
