How much liquid soap/leaves of soap do I need to do laundry? Can I use the liquid/leaf soaps in a machine? How much liquid soap/leaves of soap do I need to do laundry? Can I use the liquid/leaf soaps in a machine?

How much liquid soap/leaves of soap do I need to do laundry? Can I use the liquid/leaf soaps in a machine?

 

Both products were primarily designed for hand-wash use in a sink - and a sink full of water is a maximum of about two gallons. In a sink/washbasin, you would therefore need only one or two leaves of the Pocket soap or a capful (10ml) of the liquid soap.

 

You can use both our liquid Laundry Wash or leaves of Pocket Laundry Wash in a washing machine.

Compared to a 1-2 gallon sink, a top-loader washing machine uses about 25 gallons of water for the wash cycle. So - in theory you’d need to use maybe a quarter to a fifth of an 100ml / 3.3oz bottle of liquid soap or around twenty leaves of Pocket soap. In practice however, almost all commercial launderette machines (and some home top-loaders) have enough laundry ‘soap’ residue in them that it’s barely necessary to add any new ‘soap’ to them to wash a load of clothes.

As a result, in a laundromat or a domestic washing machine, a reasonable-sized squeeze (maybe 1/10 of a bottle) or five or six leaves would probably be adequate. If you are using the leaves, put them in a container with water first and make sure they dissolve before adding them to the wash.

The soap itself will work fine in the washing machine.

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