A laundry detergent shouldn't create lots of bubbles. You want the cleanser to rinse out of the clothing as easily as possible. Lots of lather is hard to rinse out of fabric.
I'm currently looking for material about laundry detergents and planning to formulate one that we can use. The cost for laundry detergent liquids, and even the powders have gone up so much now that I'd prefer to make my own, and also to at least have some control over what goes in my product.
On YouTube, Elly's Everyday Soapmaking has created workable laundry detergent formulas that I might follow one of these days. Ellen Ruth also has one formula that incorporates sodium percarbonate in her cold process 100% with zero fat coconut oil soap, sodium tetraborate, sodium carbonate, and sodium bicarbonate. Cory, the owner of Sunshine Soap and Candle Company has syndet based liquid formulas in some of her videos, and one of these days, I may try those too, especially that I already have the same liquid surfactants on hand (coco glucoside, decyl glucoside, cocamidopropyl betaine, except for sodium lauryl ether sulfate -- which scares me, or is that just a myth?)
I understand what DeeAnna is saying here and believe that good detergency doesn't necessarily mean opulent bubbles. I'm from the Philippines too but I'm not really looking for a high foam formula. Just one that effectively cleans. I use a top load washer and so, detergents with copious foam will use too much water and will be difficult to rinse out.
But if you're still here and want a syndet based powder formula that you can experiment with, I have one after purchasing a DIY detergent kit I bought online. I bought it just to compare the formula with the ones that I found from research and to compare ingredients, and ratios.
So, the kit that I bought should make about 10kg of powder detergent. Shockingly, the actives are but a small percentage of the formula! What makes up bulk of the formula is sodium sulfate, a filler and desiccant, which is at 9kg.... The one from my notes said fillers should just be up to 40% max in formulas... I don't understand fillers being at 90%. Anyway here are the ingredients:
Dry Ingredients
Coco fatty alcohol sulfate (CFAS) - 300g
Speckles (sodium sulfate + sodium silicate + carboxymethyl cellulose) - 84g
Palmfonate methyl ester sulfonate - 200g
Soda ash (sodium carbonate) - 393g
Sodium sulfate (Glauber's salt) - 9,000g
Liquid Ingredients - 23g
Sodium olefin sulfate solution (percent dilution was not given)
Linear alkylbenzene sulfonic acid
Fragrance
I haven't mixed these yet so I can't tell how much cleansing they are, but I'm guessing it won't be foamy because there is just too much salt that it'll kill whatever suds are produced. And there are ingredients that I'm not particularly intent on using... but for experiment's sake, I will scale this down just to see detergency...