NaturOli Soap Nuts/Soap Berries - 4-Lbs organic (960 loads) + 18X Travel Bottle! Select Seedless - 4 Wash Bags, 8-pg info, Tote Bag. Organic Laundry Soap

I only use soapnuts to do my laundry, & these are the highest quality I've ever used. They are gentle enough to wash my delicate silk lingerie, but also effective enough to wash my partner's sweaty work clothes from his outdoor job.I add a little lemon juice & white vinegar for stinky or stained clothes. Soapnuts are perfect for my super sensitive skin & allergies, & I've even gotten my friends using soapnuts to wash their baby's clothes & even to wash their babies! It's that gentle. They have a very light vinegar scent that disappears when the clothes are dry. If you use it in a bath it leaves no scent at all on the skin, so it's great to use before working a hive of bees. I place 6 berries in the nice muslin bags provided & soak it in a little bowl of hot water for 5 minutes to release the saponins, then I pour the water & the bag in the washing machine & let it run. Don't put the bag of soapnuts through the dryer, take it out & let it air dry. You can re-use each bag 8 times. If I want my clothes smelling good I drop some essential oils on wool dryer balls & scent them in the dryer, which makes more sense because the fragrance doesn't get rinsed away like it does when you puts essential oils in the washer. I greatly appreciate that NaturOil uses cloth packaging, it's the closest thing I can get to zero waste, if only it didn't have that plastic sample tube of liquid soap. I will buy this product on repeat because it is natural, safe, gentle, & effective.

Soap nuts are extremely economical to use, and they contain no chemicals. If you're looking for ways to reduce the chemical exposure in your household, this is one of the easiest, most effective, most affordable ways you can do that. How I use soap nuts: I put 5 soap nuts into the small cloth bag (included with purchase) and tie it shut. I drop it into my top-loading washer along with my dirty laundry and run the load as usual. (Note: I wash everything in cold water.) When the washer stops, I remove the bag of soap nuts and set it on top of the dryer to dry. When the soap nuts feel squishy inside the bag, I know it's time to dump them out and refill with 5 fresh soap nuts. I usually get 5 wash loads per bagful. I do not use any chemicals such as fabric softener or dryer sheets. I do, however, put vinegar into the final rinse dispenser of my washer (1/4 cup in summer when it's humid and 1/2 cup in winter when it's dry). The vinegar reduces static electricity for clothes dried in the dryer. (This is something I've done for years, before I started using soap nuts.) Our laundry includes the following: towels, sheets, my clothes, my husband's clothes (he's a professional painter, he works on our vehicles, and he does yard work - so his stuff can get pretty dirty), and cloth diapers when the grandchildren visit. I've tried to determine what our laundry smells like after it's been washed and dried either in the dryer or on the clothesline. All I can say is that it smells "clean." The soap nuts don't seem to impart any particular scent onto the laundry. We keep a notepad by our washer on which we record each wash load and note whenever we start a fresh bag of soap nuts. I probably won't do this forever, but being a new soap nuts user myself, I wanted to see how long they lasted and how the cost per load worked out. We have now used soap nuts for a total of 68 laundry loads. We've used 5.8 oz. of the 4 lb. package we purchased, which, at my purchase price of $49.95, works out to a cost of $.07 per load! The average number of soap nuts we have used per load is 5.7. The literature that came with the soap nuts said that they have other household cleaning uses besides laundry. I haven't tried them on my dishes or anything else yet, but one of these days I just might. If you aren't convinced yet to buy soap nuts in a large quantity, please buy a trial size and use them for a few loads. I believe you will be pleasantly surprised!

My family of five have been using NaturOli soap nuts for three years now. We bought a 5 lb bulk bag of pieces at first- it was a great deal and I just used the last of that bag today. If you buy the bulk bag of pieces, it really doesn't make a difference. They clean just as well as the whole nuts, most of them are whole anyway. I just bought by next bag and ended up buying this 4 lb bag because it had free shipping and the bulk bag of pieces didn't. The bulk bag of pieces come in a plastic sack with a couple of muslin bags for putting the soap nuts in the laundry. This 4 lb bag came in a large muslin bag, as shown in the picture, with four smaller bags for washing with, a pamphlet about soap nuts and a small bottle of concentrated washing liquid. Here's how I use soap nuts to the best effect. I started using them with cloth diapers but now we use them on all our clothes. I found that I don't like the muslin wash bags. They are a little thick and the drawstring is hard to untie after washing a couple of loads. I put a handful of soapnuts, about five or six in old pantyhose tied shut. I have a front-loading HE washer so it cleans best when it is full. For better dispersal, I put three pantyhose bags in different spots of the laundry. I do a presoak setting so that plenty of saponin is released in the water. You do not have to remove the soapnuts at any time during the wash cycle. The saponin that is released during the rinse cycle acts like a fabric softener. I had NEVER used fabric softener so when we first started using soapnuts, I kept feeling my clothes because they felt so silky and soft. I also use soap nuts for cleaning. I've scrubbed my front porch and washed my car. Just throw some in a bucket of water. It won't look very sudsy but it works. For example, I was scrubbing my porch with just hose water to prep it for re-painting. It still looked dingy even though the water was running clear so I thought I'd put some soap nuts in a bucket of water and see if it worked. There were barely any bubbles but when I started scrubbing, gray dingy water started streaming off the porch and the porch paint looked much brighter. One note for people who are used to washing with chemical and fragrance filled detergents- Soap nuts will not remove ground-in dirt and oil. Mud-coated socks and clothes will come out clean but dingy looking. I keep an environmentally friendly detergent on hand for those clothes. Soap nuts work great for everyday laundry and cloth diapers. Also, soap nuts do have a scent to them. If you are used to a strong perfume smell, you probably won't notice anything. We used to wash with fragrance-free detergents, so I definitely noticed a scent to my clothes at first, kind of an herbally smell. I don't notice it anymore.

I think this is just such a great product because it is TRULY eco-friendly. the packaging is a cotton muslin bag and it is ONE ingredient, certified organic to boot. I like that it doesn't come in a petroleum based plastic bottle that will be down-cycled and eventually end up in a land fill. Also it doesn't contain a slew of even "natural" ingredients that took goodness knows how much energy to produce and transport. And it is a great price! Cheaper than most if not all natural detergents. If I could give it 4.5 stars, I will be honest, I would. But for the aforementioned reasons I am very satisfied and will use the product from now on. But let me give you low down on how this works, for me anyhow: I use 7 nuts per baggie for 4 loads. They recommend 4 or 5 nuts, but I just found that wasn't quite cutting it. I have a had a couple loads come out not smelling clean (some campfire clothes absolutely reeked after being washed) I have a 4 year old washing machine, but it is NOT HE, so maybe if you have a more efficient machine you can use less nuts and maybe get another load out of it. So it may not be quite as economical as they tout- but I think it still does beat the alternatives by a long shot. Also before each load I make a "tea" with the nuts in a cuppa hot water from the kettle. I let that sit for 5 minutes while the machine is filling and then I squeeze the nuts to release their sudsy juices and the tea is light amber colored. I put that in the COLD water in the washer and let it agitate for a minute before adding laundry- and I am very careful not to overfill. Maybe if you used warm water it works better? I'm not sure, but they say on the website that cold water is fine if not better. I also let the laundry agitate for 20 or 25 minutes instead of 10-12 just to let the soap nuts do their thing. That being said, adding more nuts has helped us get cleaner laundry. It seems to come out just as clean as with 7th gen. Soap nuts does not get to stains AT ALL. Not one little bit!! I was very surprised to see most stains didn't budge. So I just make sure to pretreat with my leftover laundry detergent and that has done the trick. I am just not used to pre-treating every single stain, and with two little kids that means almost everything. Oh well. I'll still use this, and I think this company has very high standards and I support them. However I will add that I contacted them about something, and the customer support had a very holier than thou tone and was not willing to make an concessions with the customer, like they know their product is just the best in the universe and they will promote that almost to the point of being arrogant. eye roll!! Anyhow, I really think every home should use these. they are so eco-friendly and wallet friendly. their effective-ness isn't totally perfect, but then again what is? i'll take that minor drawback over endless plastic bottles and processed detergents. also soap nuts can be used around the house, just make a strong "tea" with ground up nuts and use it in the bath or as a cleaner around the house.

We use these soap nuts in the laundry all the time and they definitely work! Much better than others I’ve tried in the past that all came cracked, these are mostly whole and look in great condition! They clean our laundry very well in addition to the ozone machine hooked up to the water supply. They smell nice too! Seems very good quality and concentrated! I’d recommend!

I heard about soap nuts on Shark Tank and started looking into it. I was very skeptical until I read a blog from a person who was not selling them. Her comments regardng " week old wet smelly clothes- came out smelling clean" is what got me to try them. My husband travels a lot for work (primarily southern states) and begain running everyday about 2 years ago. Weekly, I get clothes that have been wrapped in a plastic bag, still wet from persperation, AND sitting in the back of a very hot trunk for up to 5 days. I have ruined more than my share of running clothes trying to remove the smell that continues to linger after several trys of washing it out. I have tried bleach, baking soda, vinegar, baking soda AND vinegar, specialty detergents....Nothing but a lot of wasted water and ruined clothing. When I read the blog, it was very direct and realistic. Soap nuts are an all natural way to clean your clothes. However, do not be disillusioned into thinking your whites will come out BRIGHT white or remove hard stains. It is a soap, not a solvent/degreaser which is needed to break down stains. You may still need to use a stain remover or oxyclean from time to time. I took a few months to write this review so I could use it enough to be able to give readers an idea of what to expect. The first time I used it-the clothes came out clean and without any odor! I was ecstatic and still am! You will smell a vinegar like odor while the clothes are washing but it is odorless when the wash cycle is finished. I also do not use a dryer sheet in the hot months and the clothes come out of the dryer soft and static free (we have a lot of humidity in LA). This month, I have had to use some dryer sheets to be rid of static. I will be trying out the wool balls in my next order from amazon.

Works great! Removes stains and cleans well!

These don't seem to suds as much as the previous ones I had. I know they don't do much and I'm fine with that, but these don't seem to do anything. I don't know if there are different species of trees these come from or if growing conditions make a difference. I hope they are getting our clothes clean. Update: I don't think they are doing anything. Our clothes smell musty and this is not something I've ever struggled with in the past, whether it be soap nuts, homemade laundry detergent or store-bought. I've tried doubling up on the number of soapnuts and that hasn't helped.