soapnuts

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Soapnuts are a revolutionary laundry soap which grows on trees and replaces all chemical detergents with an eco-friendly solution! While, nothing more than a dried fruit case, they leave the clothes clean, soft and fragrant free. Soapnuts save us from polluting the water with synthetic chemicals, from irritating our skin and using them saves a lot of money too. Soapnuts are well known across the Indian subcontinent and for thousands of years, people across India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal have collected the soapnuts for washing clothes as well as for a multitude of other uses. The soapnut fruit comes from the sapindus mokorossi tree which grows naturally in the forest and hill track areas. Once the tree reaches 9 years, it begins to produce fruit, and then continues to fruit for another *0 years. Only the natural ripened windfall fruits are collected using traditional gathering techniques and then the seed and fruit pulp is removed by women. It is the fruit case which contains natural saponins. The fruit case are then sun dried. Many different species of plant contain saponins but the sapindus mokorossi, has the highest concentration of all the different species of soapnut trees and it is higher in saponins that other saponiferous herbs such as soapwort. How do soapnuts work? Hot water dissolves the plant saponins which are in very high concentrations in the sapindus mukorrossi soapnut. Saponins are a natural surfacent which reduce surface tension of water, making water ‘wetter’ and allowing it to penetrate the clothing fibres lifting dirt, grime and oil from the clothes. The surfacents then hold onto the dirt, keeping it in suspension in the water until it is drained away. During the rinse cycle, normally with cold water, no more soap is released, meaning that when the clothes are dry, they are completely fragrance free and soft. Washing the Clothes with Soapnuts in a Washing Machine Quantity You will need **5 soapnuts for a full wash *****