Laundry Quandary no more!

Last summer I decided to buy laundry detergent by Seventh Generation again. This product is all natural; thus not adding undesirable chemicals to our water supply. The cost is equitable to any other powdered detergent. I bought the unscented "free and clear" kind because avoiding fragrances in products goes a long way toward likeliness of purity. And it comes in a recyclable cardboard box instead of a hard plastic bottle. Easy enough. I like to support this company. Besides the fact it has a sweet name, it is also up at the tippity-top of the Better World Handbook's list of socially and ecologically-responsible companies.

Recently I learned about soap nuts. Would you believe there is a tree that grows nuts that are saponins (soap-making)? Amazing! They grow in places like Nepal. You can do your laundry by throwing some of these nuts in your washing machine. I bought a bottle of the 18x concentrated soap nuts liquid from NaturOli. You only need a teeny bit (like 1 tsp with a normal washer--half that for high-efficiency) for a load, so the bottle should last about 45 loads or 90 for HE. I have some nuts too, but haven't tried them yet. I don't have anything amazing to share--just simply to say that it works--works as well as Seventh Generation...or Tide or anything else I've ever used. Except the burden on my conscience is lighter, and you don't need to use fabric softener/dryer sheets because the nuts inherently have those skills. You could almost laugh at how wonderful it is that God made these amazing nuts that do everything we've strived to do chemically with a big, pollutant detergent industry.