Eco Friendly Cleaning with Soap Nuts
Soap Nuts are one of the easiest ways to make all your household Cleaning Eco Friendly. This is one simple green cleaner. What you want is what you get, an all natural product that is sustainable and usually organic. Soap Nuts are simply a waste product, but one with a myriad of uses.
A well kept secret in the East for thousands of years, now at last soap nuts are becoming more widely available in the west. You can buy soap nuts through the link and find out more about how to use soap nuts with the soap nut review if you need more information first. This article is an introduction to the use of soap nuts as a green cleaning product, for the yet to be initiated.
What are Soap Nuts?
Soap Nuts are simply the fruits of the Soap Berry tree (Sapindus) that are dried for use in personal hygiene and in the home. Originally from India, the trees are now being planted elsewhere to provide increased supplies of this 100% natural cleaning product.
How Natural are Soap Nuts?
Well, if you buy simply soap nuts, they are completely unprocessed and 100% natural. This is also the cheapest way to buy them. But, for convenience you can now buy green cleaners that incorporate soap nuts into their formula; items like laundry soap and so on.
How to use Soap Nuts?
If you could use soap you could use soap nuts. You can simply pop four or five in the washer to deal with laundry. You can reuse them five times, so they work out as a highly cost effective way to deal with laundry.
Buy soaking the nuts in water you can create your own soft soap. This can be used anywhere really. For mopping the floor, cleaning the car, presoaking laundry, anywhere that you would normally use a soapy or rather detergent laden bucket of water, can be sorted out far more safely with soap nuts.
Their primary use in the west though is as a green laundry cleaner.
How do Soap Nuts Compare as a Safe Laundry Detergent?
Customer reviews show soap nuts are probably the most effective green cleaner, more powerful than many green laundry detergents. You may wish to pre-soak heavily soiled items. But lets be honest we should be doing that anyway to ensure we do need to use long hot wash cycles.
The primary negative response to soap nuts has not been their ability to clean, but rather that they do not smell! They remove odours extremely effectively (even diapers come out fresh) but it is advised that you do not use them in conjunction with fabric softener (which is of course the greenest way to go), so some consumers miss the ‘clean laundry fragrance’ they are used too. This ‘problem’ can be counteracted by placing a few drops of essential oil into the fabric softener drawer of the washer.
The only other issue is that they can be ‘gloopy’ in humid conditions. This doesn’t stop them working. But, after a lifetime of convenient powders and liquids some customers see having to handle sticky soap nuts as a bit of a negative issue. I say they just need a little retraining in the art of Eco Friendly Cleaning!
The advantages of soap nuts; little wasted packaging, great value for money, 100% biodegradable, help break down grey-water, hypo allergenic, baby-safe, completely sustainable mean that the occasional task of pre-soaking items is nothing to be concerned with. Overall, you simply cannot go wrong with Soap Nuts!
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