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Adding Essential Oil to Laundry Detergent

Rogue Robot

Rogue Robot

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Has anyone done this? I'm mostly asking if anyone's added to the free+clear type soaps, which I buy because most perfumed detergents are WAY too perfumey for me, but I'd like to add a little scent to my clothes and whatnot. I just want to make sure my clothes won't get stained since I know some EO are not water soluble.
 
Never tried it because of the same reason - I am pretty sure the oil would stain. What if you created a sachet type thing where the oil is rolled up within a cloth and toss it in the dryer?
 
Perfect.

You can even go a step ahead and make your own detergent. Find yourself some Washing Soda (Sodium Carbonate - difficult to find, but neither impossible nor brow-raising) and mix with Borax (grocery store) and some shavings of natural soap (I go even one step further and manufacture my own soap). The essential oil would ideally be incorporated within the soap shavings and therefore more or less homogeneous and dilute.

As I don't do my own laundry these days, I forgot the best Soda:Borax ratio, but I'll dig it up for you if you'd like :).
 
I've added EO to my laundry soap before and though it did not stain, the scent did not keep -
I have sprayed a mix of EO and distilled H2O into my dryer full of clothes before turning it on and it only very very lightly smelled......
I would suggest going with the suggesting of putting some on a cloth-
I've wanted to try the Zum laundry soap but it is just so damn expensive!!
 
i always add tea tree oil to my wash, but i use weird hippie "be kleen" soap or something.

i don't notice a smell when i pull them out of the dryer, i mainly use it because i live with so many animals and i just feel less gross about it, seeing as tea tree oil kills bacteria like things and i have qualms about our washer.
 
kenickie, that's kind of what i want to use it for. not necessarily my clothes, per se, but blankets and whatnot. they kind of smell a little like dog no matter how many times i wash them. i just kind of want to freshen them up a little.
 
i just add a cap full of tea tree oil to every wash (you know those caps are tiny tiny...) in the spot where i put the detergents (our washer has a special compartment for it or whatever). i also add this organic oxidizing agent or something....

our dog and cat are old and smelly :/ whoever owns this house doesn't really care about animal smell, but the housesitters Kenickie and totters do.
 
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