Soap Nut Information.

Soap nuts are also known as soap berries or soapods and are not nuts at all, they are a shelled seed or berry.

Imagine you could get away with using no chemicals in your Laundry. Now imagine there is a single product that would help you with all the cleaning in your house – with no chemicals. Now take the leap and imagine the product I am describing is natural and grows on trees, Sapindus mukorossi, the soap berry tree.  Soapnuts are also known as Soap berries or soap pods - as seen on channel 4's How Toxic are you?. Soap Nuts are actually not nuts, they are a shelled seed or berry - it's the shells that we use. They grow wild in Nepal and India and are a natural source of high quality Saponin. The seeds aren't the part we want for cleaning, although they do have their uses. You could grow a new soap berry tree, or the seeds do have other pharmaceutical uses but they contain no saponin so you don't want to pay form the weight of a seed when you want shells. To use them you take about half a dozen soapnut shells and chuck them in a draw string cotton bag. Bung the bag in the washing machine drum with your dirty washing and set it going. They are odourless so if you want fragrant washing then add a few drops of an essential oil of your choice to the bag. Soap Nuts contain no bleaching agents and no optical brighteners - so if you like your whites dazzlingly white you might want to add a box of Ecover Laundry Bleach to your order.

Trial pack.

25g inc cloth washing bag.

£2.35

Starter Pack

100g plus cloth washing bag

£4.10

Cloth bag only.

£1.25

200g refill pack of shells only. No cloth bag.

£5.35

500g refill pack of shells only. No cloth bag.

£10.35

Soap nut seeds

2 seeds - just for fun.

£2.50

Ecover Bleach - Chlorine Free Laundry Bleach to keep your whites naturally bright. Laundry Bleach contains: 100% oxygen based bleaching agent (percarbonate - which is composed of soda and hydrogen peroxide.) The most ecological bleach since sunshine! Suitable for vegan use.

400g

£3.99

Laundry

When you buy our Starter Set you will receive 100g of Soap Nuts and a drawstring cloth bag. You simply need to pop 6 – 8 Soap Nut shells into the bag, do it up tightly and throw it in the drum of the washing machine with your laundry load. Soap Nuts wash effectively between 30 and 60 degrees and this bag full will last for up to 3-4 washes. Your 100g pack is usually good for 3 or 4 refills of your cloth bag and will last about a month. When the Saponin has been used up the shells will look dark and soggy – at this point you can safely throw them on your compost heap where they will help your plants. Refill your cloth bag with fresh shells and off you go again.

More information can be found on the Soap Nut Information pdf file.