What I Learned After a Year of Doing Laundry With Soapnuts


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Anonymous said…
What about soap nuts for washing hair, face and body?
Also soapwort, yucca root and stearic acid produced using natural sources as cleansers?
LisaLise said…
Hey there!

If you click the link at the bottom of the post 'Read more about soapnuts here' you'll find the original post on using soap nuts for for cleansing that goes into a bit of detail on how to use it for things other than laundry..

Also, I have a post about soapwort here
http://www.lisaliseblog.com/2011/05/natural-surfactants-soapwort.html

There is also a post 'all natural hair cleansers' using soapwort and soap nuts, as well as rhassoul clay
http://www.lisaliseblog.com/2011/04/discount-solution-all-natural-hair.html
Anonymous said…
best way to use soap nuts as a face wash is to place some soap nut pieces into a mesh cloth the harder the mesh the better and soak in hot water for a few sec then rub the mesh cloth hard. a lot of foam will come out with which you can wash ur face. only use once a day as it is quite strong.
LisaLise said…
Hey there Anon - this sounds like an interesting idea. I will be giving this a try. thanks for the input.
Anonymous said…
Hi there great to read your post. I wanna share my experience how i have been using soapnut for my daily.
methods to extract the foam
1. Boild it
2.shake it into a bottle
3. Make it into Eco Enzyme by fermenting, no preservatives required
I have been using eco enzymes for laundry and body wash
Using the fermentation method to produce more foam, no preservative and avoid staining the cloth when put soapnut directly into the macine.

After 3 months harvest the fermented the Eco enzymes soapnut (molase 1:soapnut 3: water:
10 EE method) and the remaining of soapnut we can boil it again to produce foam and keep the liquid for other purposes like liquid dishwasher for floor cleaning or for our body.
Warmest regards

Diluting the fermented liquid Eco Enzymes soapnut when come to use. This is very thick liquid so we must dilute it before using.

Warmest rgd
LisaLise said…
Thank you so much for sharing Anon!