SWITCHING TO SOAP NUTS

If you've been following along in here for a while, then you know that I'm in the process of switching things out as I go for more sustainable options. Just search for "switching to" in here and you can see some of the switches I have made, everything from menstrual cups, to stainless steel straws, to reusable cotton pads.This time it was time for laundry detergent to get switched out. I was already using a more ecofriendly one from Ecover, which I've actually written about here, but I am trying my best to reduce plastic in my household, and when I found an alternative I thought it was time to switch. And the alternative is: soap nuts!

Now you might think, what on Earth is soap nuts?

It's basically, as the words says, nut shells which you can use as a soap to wash your clothes with.When you buy them you buy a big cotton bag with many small soap nuts in it and then you also get a little small cotton bag. Then when you wash your clothes, you just put 4-6 soap nuts into the little cotton bag and throw it in the washing machine together with the clothes, and voila clothes is clean! A bag with 4-6 soap nuts can do around 4-5 washes and then you just take out the soap nuts and compost them, and replace the old ones with some new ones. 

Read also: Switching to a menstrual cup