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Fridays are my laundry catch up days and I realized as soon as I started on the second load that we were out of detergent. Then I remembered I had some laundry soap nuts in my swag bag from last weekend’s BlissDom conference. So I got them out, read the instructions, and tossed them into the small cloth bag to be thrown in with the washload.
The hubby called as I was figuring out the soap nuts.
“Hold on I’m trying to get these nuts in the bag.”
What?
“I’m trying to get these soap nuts in the bag.”
What are soap nuts?
“You use them instead of detergent. They’re actually berries from India.”
Later my mom called and I told her I was using soap nuts.
How do you know they’re working? Do they suds up?
“Well, you squeeze them and this white foamy stuff comes out and when that runs out you compost them.”
And that pretty much sums up my Friday. Squeezing nuts all in the name of clean clothes.
At least you had instructions. Mine are lost. Every time I walk by my washer and dryer, I think a cat took a crap on them, but it’s really just the soap nuts.
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No instructions here either…I need to google!
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You’ll need to update us and let us know how they worked. They sound very interesting.
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They worked fine (I did not have any Oxygen based bleach to add so I added a touch of color safe bleach…hopefully that wasn’t a no no but it worked.) BUT honestly. Um. I just like regular liquid or powder cleanser “better.” I think it’s a mental thing. It’s like I can’t believe berries are actually getting the clothes clean, although they are.
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A low cost, green eco friendly, healthy natural cleaner can be amde from the soapberry which grows on the Chinaberry tree and has been used for thousands of years. It works very effectively.
I love soap nuts. I would recommend them to anyone.
So, did you like them?
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Hi there! I’m Lisa, founder of LaundryTree.com. My sincere apologies that the tags containing the instructions for your soapnuts were lost! No need to Google for instructions; here’s a link that will tell you everything you need to know. =D
http://www.laundrytree.com/archives/category/all-about-using-soapnuts
Have a wonderful day!—Lisa