homemade laundry soap recipes

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Here's a tip for you....
My mom was a restaurant cook for many years. She always had to wear chef's whites. And she's come home from work covered in grease and food stains sometimes. What she always used for stain fighting was plain ordinary Dawn dish washing liquid. Just put a few drops on the stain and then throw it in the wash and she says she never had to buy anything else.