Soapnuts as the name indicates ore soaps that grow on a tree and are also called Soap berries/ Soapnuts/ Reetha.
It’s a magic berry that contains natural soapins and has excellent cleaning properties.
Our ancestors have used soapnuts to clean jewelry, wash their hair and silk saris effectively and naturally. The leftover water from the cleaning process was let out into their home gardens, without the need for any sewage treatment.
Here we have listed a few ways in which we can still use these magic berries in all our cleaning activities, to suit the present day lifestyle:
Tie up about 10-12 soapnuts in a small cloth bag and drop it into the washing machine or dishwasher, for naturally clean clothes/ dishes, The bag can be dried and reused a few times.
Soak soapnuts in a vessel overnight and use the strained liquid for hair wash to get shiny and stronger hair
3. Soapnuts can also be dried, powdered and used (just by itself or in combination with other cleaning agents), for all general cleaning purposes.
4. We could also make a multipurpose cleaning liquid, that takes care of pretty much every cleaning need.
Given below is the recipe: Soak two handfuls of soapnutsideseeded), in a vessel, overnight Bring to boil the next morning , and after about 5 minutes of cooking, turn off the heat and let it cool down Crush and strain the liquid (the leftover skin of the soapnuts can be composted). Mix with an equal portion of citrus bio enzyme, and this is the much useful, multipurpose cleaning liquid. This liquid can be used For dish wash, hair wash, floor mopping, kitchen cleaning, toilet cleaning, gloss cleaning, car wash, pet wash etc.,
– Sangeetha Subash
