Farmer Jaime, price per load is figured into what I made. I get it. I got it from the start. Everyone else gets it too. Well, except that one guy, he thinks he's the first and only to have thought of that. I figure it the using the same format you spelled out in your post. If I get so many uses per gallon, and so on. That was one of the first things I projected. Apparently so have a lot of others and they find homemade to be cheaper. I also considered whether or not I like the product, how well it actually does the job, and so on. My only gamble was whether or not the homemade turned out to be useless, and it didn't. It's doing a great job. Problem is the one guy that can't or won't back up what he said with his cost formulations. I don't care if you're a Theoretical Physicist, it doesn't make you automatically correct by saying "But I'm a Theoretical Physicist".
Here's an example: 1 bar Fells Naptha = $.97 (+tax about $1.09) I use it for stain remover, rubbed directly onto the fabric.
1 container of Shout (we'll go with the average spray bottle size) around $5 with tax. I also use directly on the fabric.
I have found the FN to work far better than the shout. If it were $10 per bar, I'd still buy it. I might not be making laundry detergent with it but I'd use it for stain remover exclusively. Factor in how much of the FN has to be used vs how much of the Shout has to be used and its still cheaper to use the FN for stain remover, in part bc it does a better job.
The rest is just an infinite set of variables and cannot be measured, which is why the cost per load/gallon does mean beans. What I mean is the who uses how much and the quality of their water, age of machine, quality of machine, what size their hands are, are they coordinated, how well do they follow directions, these are the things I think that one guy was attempting to use to make ridicule.
I appreciate your efforts in giving us a time out though
