Monday, April 18, 2011

Ever heard of soap nuts?

I had not...we found out about them at the Isthmus Green Day.
What are they?
Dried fruit from the Soapberry tree that contain saponin ( a natural cleaner).

What's so great about them?
-petroleum free
-no toxic chemicals ( in fact no added anything)
-light weight ( use less energy to ship)

How do you use them?
Put 2-4 nuts in a small reuseable linen bag and throw the whole bag in the washer. The nuts can be re-used up to 5 times. We have a front load washer so we will just but the nuts right in the soap drawer ( no bag needed)



Where do you get them?

We got ours from Reuseable Future

Do they work?
We'll let you know

PS: People are asking how we are doing on the Buy No New Challenge.
We did purchase 1 new thing. Shin guards for Nate for soccer. We feel strongly that we don't want to take changes with our kids' safety...so felt OK about this purchase.

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