Most liquid laundry detergent is more than half water. And the line inside the cap that almost everybody pours past is the reason your towels feel like cardboard.

Take a clean towel out of your closet, push one corner into a jar of warm water and shake it for thirty seconds. If foam sits on top and won't go away, that towel is still full of detergent you paid for months ago. That one-minute jar test is at the start of the video.

On a farm, wash day meant barn coveralls, chore jeans stiff with mud and shirts that had been through the hay, the dirtiest laundry in America. It all came clean with a bar of soap and two boxes off a shelf by the back door. Here are 25 old farm laundry ways, counted down from 25 to 1, ending with my mama's whole fifteen cent soap recipe and exactly what it costs today.

Tell me in the comments: what did your last bottle of laundry detergent cost you? Just the price.

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