The Best Soap Nuts Liquid Uses
The Best Soap Nuts Liquid Uses
or thousands of years, people have been using soap nuts as a natural soap. Today, many people like to use soap nuts as an all-natural laundry detergent. You simply pop the soap nuts in a small muslin bag and throw them in with your hot/warm water load of laundry (for cold water loads, you need to soak the soap nuts in hot water first to activate them). After the nuts lose their sudsing power or begin to dry out, simply replace them with a fresh batch. You should be able to use them for 4 to 5 laundry loads.
Why Soap Nuts Liquid?
Many people don’t realize that by turning their soap nuts into liquid, they greatly increase the variety of things that they can be used for. In fact, the list of things you can clean with soap nut liquid is endless. Anything you can use liquid soap to clean, you can use soap nuts liquid for. As with regular soap nuts, you can use it as a laundry detergent. In its liquid form, you can use it in your dishwasher. Soap nuts liquid makes a great shampoo. It also makes a wonderful all-around house cleaner. It will even leave your car with a beautiful shine.
How Do You Turn Soap Nuts Into Liquid?
Turning your soap nuts into liquid is as easy as 1, 2, 3.
Step one: Combine 15 to 20 soap nuts with about five cups of water in a medium pot.
Step two: Bring the water to a boil. Watch it carefully so that it doesn’t volcano over into a sudsy mess! After it boils, reduce the heat and let it simmer for about an hour, then turn off and allow to cool.
Step three: Remove the soap nuts and place the liquid in a sterilized glass jar. If you’d like scented soap, put in any desired essential oils. This recipe will make about a quart of liquid soap.
You can also buy premade Soap Nuts Liquid and remove the need to make your own. When you get it from a company that specializes in extracting the saponin and creating a mix with the perfect dilution for effective cleaning, you take all the work out of getting a great natural cleaner.
What are the Best Uses for Soap Nuts Liquid?
Soap nuts liquid is extremely gentle and can be used for all of your cleaning needs. It can be used as laundry detergent, liquid soap for dishwashers (or hand-washing dishes), kitchen and bathroom cleaning, as well as window-cleaning. Because it’s so gentle, it can also be used as bath time soap and can even be used for kids and pets.
One note: If you’d like to use soap nuts liquid as shampoo, for small kids or on your pets, know that it does sting if you get it into the eyes, so do use caution!
Good to Know: Despite their name, soap nuts deseeded aren’t really nuts; they’re fruit. However, they are not edible. Not only do they taste horrible, soap nuts will give you an upset stomach if you ingest them. Because of this, it’s a really good idea to keep your soap nuts out of the reach of children. As for the liquid, make sure it’s clearly labeled and stored far out of the reach of kids (who might swig some out of curiosity) and kombucha-loving spouses (as the soap nut liquid does resemble the yummy, fermented tea).
