Dirty Laundry Nuts

Chinese Soapberry nuts are rapidly replacing traditional laundry soap chemical detergents, according to News Target's Mike Adams, alternative health author.

Adams says that apart from damaging our land, polluting the oceans, killing the fish, and hurting the birds that eat the fish, we're killing ourselves to be dressed and pressed.

Makes sense.

If Ayurvedic clothing transfers essential and healing nutrients into our bodies when we wear them all day long and sweat, then doesn't it stand to reason that using detergents with toxic chemicals which cause cancer, liver disorders, and neurological and hormone damage, to wash our clothes, would likely cause those chemicals to penetrate our skin and enter our bloodstream?

This natural alternative to laundry soap is not only extremely effective but also more economical. A tree which grows fruit much like the lychee is the bearer of soapberries. Chinese soapberry shells contain "saponins" which act as cleaners, freeing dirt and oils from the clothing by softening the water. Nothing is added to or taken from the actual soapberry to create this process, says Adams.

To use, simply place a handful of these fruit shells in a cotton drawstring bag, then place that bag in the washer. They can be reused until they turn black, and then its time to replace. And reports state that they are safe for washing silk, wool and other, delicate fabrics.

Soapberries can be used to clean just about anything, says Adams, including jewelry. But watch out, because they are a cleaning agent, and can sting if you get it in your eyes.