| Maggie's Soap Nuts are the first truly natural cleaner - the only laundry soap that grows on trees! Truly effective, 100% natural and safe for your most sensitive skin. Soap Nuts are the dried fruit of the Soapberry tree. They contain saponin, a natural cleaner used for thousands of years to clean clothes, proven effective in Chinese and Ayurvedic traditions. Tested by humans on humans for at least 5000 years.
Simply put 5 Soap Nuts into the included cotton sack and drop it in your laundry. Reuse up to 5 times. Your clothes come out clean, vibrant, and soft.
Replace your laboratory detergents and softeners with the soap made from Nature by Nature. Your clothes, your skin, your family, and your planet will thank you.
Ingredients: dried fruit of the Soapberry tree. Also contains: one cotton wash sack and full instructions for washing 200 to 400 loads of laundry. |
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 Great natural soap nuts |
| Review Date: April 12, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Orgainc mama-san, |
| The soap-nuts are as good as it states. It works well and I will not go back to liquid detergents or other natural laundry detergents. I have skin allergies with many things but I haven't had any problems with these nuts. I am sorry I had not discovered the soap-nuts earlier. I have used non-petro-chemical detergents for almost 30 years but never knew about soap-nuts until I saw it on Amazon. Thanks Amazon! Just want to point out that I don't use the dried soap-nuts into the wash as it states.Rather, pre-soak the nuts in some water in a large jar. I don't soak all the nuts at once but add to the jar as I use up the old. I use some of the liquid along with the nuts.I can normally do 3 large loads with 4-5 soaked soap-nuts and some of the liquids. The liquid will be light brown but does not stain clothes. It is the color of the nuts. I love this stuff. If you don't pre-soak your nuts as I do, you can throw some nuts into the little cotten bag provided and use a little hot water in your wash to start the activation process. Remember that the nuts are dried so it needs pretty warm to hot water to activate the soap. I leave the bagged nuts through wash and rinse cycle.If the little bag of nuts goes into the dryer accidently after the rinse cycle, don't worry, the nuts just gets dried up in the dryer but does not harm anything, just throw away the parched nuts. This is all natural and you can't hurt it but keep away from chidren. ENJOY! |
most "natural" detergent out there
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| Review Date: May 9, 2008 |
| Reviewer: suzeya, |
I've replaced all conventional detergents in my house over three years ago and thought I was doing a good job "being green." Then I read how you also have to factor in "food miles" and "carbon imprint" or how much energy and fuel goes into manufacturing and shipping your products around the world. Ok, so now instead of buying detergents which are mostly water and heavy, I am buying one bag of soap nuts which is the purest form and concentrated. And this bag is supposed to last for 200 loads!
Plus soapnuts are a sustainable and natural resource-- they grow like crazy and each tree produces hundreds of pounds of soapnuts. There are no added fillers or dyes or chemicals and it is completely safe for our water systems.
I have used another brand of soapnuts and they were not as good. Maggie's soapnuts are very soapy and moist--like a fig or date. They do a great job at cleaning everything in the wash. I haven't tried it as a shampoo or regular household cleaner but I'm sure it will do a fantastic job, based on what I've seen in the wash.
One word of caution-- separate your whites and darks. Even if you use cold water, the soapnuts do too good of a job. Wash your jeans inside out to prevent dye leakage. |
Best Thing Since Sliced Bread!
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| Review Date: March 25, 2008 |
| Reviewer: B. Cook, Lake Gaston VA USA |
| I've been using these in place of laundry detergent for several months and love them. Our clothes come out clean, soft & fresh smelling and I like knowing my family doesn't have all those chemicals on their skin. It's also nice to know I'm not harming the environment. Now if I could just find the same thing for my dishwasher! |
Fresh smelling, soft laundry
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| Review Date: March 19, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Jaizon, NH United States |
| These environmentally kind soap nuts leave laundry clean, with a fresh smell, and very soft. No nasty chemicals on your clothing or in your water. Highly recommend. |
Better on wool than anything else I've tried.
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| Review Date: January 6, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Imelda, Noo Joisey |
I've only used this product for a few loads of laundry so far, and I can say that these definitely clean your clothes! They come out smelling so fresh and clean. A few notes:
- Stains DO need to be pretreated. The soap nuts alone didn't remove the food stains from my 3-yr old's shirts.
- For brightening I added oxygen-based bleach to my brights and whites (as suggested by the included instructions)
and the clothes looked great. I had initially washed a load with no additives, and the lighter colors
definitely looked dingy, although smelled great. Now, our homemade oxy-stuff tends to leave our line-dried
clothes on the crispy side, so I do add 1/4 c. white vinegar to the rinse cycle to fix this.
My favorite thing about the soap nuts so far is how wonderfully it washes wool sweaters. I used to use mild shampoo or castile soap, but the soap nuts perform so much better! And, incredibly, the wool smells so clean and not like wet dog! I soak the soap nuts in about a cup of hot water for 5-10 min, then add the "soak" as well as the soap nuts to the washing machine for the cold water delicate cycle. It works beautifully, nothing else needed.
I'll definitely continue using these. Per load they're cheaper than the commercial "free and clear" we used up until 2 yrs ago when we started making homemade laundry soap. Although we still like our homemade (at $ 0.04/load ain't nothin' cheaper!), the soap nuts are more convenient (nothing to make, easy to use), equally effective, and even more biodegradable. |
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