[little jeremiah]

Tax-chick, I do laundry using less detergent - I use detergent without any fragrances (shudder) - and add a small scoop of borax, and then add about 1/4 or 1/3 cup white vinegar to the rinse, especially for things like towels.

Also for all kitchen towels and dish cloths - I don’t use sponges - and washcloths (you wouldn’t believe how many of those I go through) I soak in hot water and Sun cleaner - the cheapie generic Oxyclean, in very hot water, until it’s cooled to lukewarm, about 4 hours.

I don’t know if I’d use TSP because we have a well and septic and some things get in the ground water.

Hanging clothes up makes them smell nice, too.

[Rapunzel]

If your septic tank is functioning properly you will not leech anything into the groundwater. But that commercial fertilizer will harm the water around you even if you do not live right on the water. I have personally wtched a few spring fed lakes go from crystal clear to dark water in just a couple of decades. All brought on from making the yard green and pretty.

But best of all IS hanging them on the line..they smell so good and clean. Plus energy conserving at its finest.