NaturOli Soap Nuts / Soap Berries. 1/2 lb. (80+ loads) USDA CERTIFIED ORGANIC! "Select" seedless. Rated "best" eco-friendly, natural laundry detergent. Green Dot Award Winner. 100% chemical free. + Extreme 18X trial - A $5.95 FREE BONUS!

by NaturOli

Product Features

• The only official USDA CERTIFIED ORGANIC Soap Nuts available on Amazon! Hands down, the highest quality & greatest value offered! Amazon's #1 selling brand!
• Fresh, seedless, Sapindus Mukorossi - the world's finest. Green Dot Award Winning! A verified SoapNuts.pro "preferred" seller. "Select" premium grade - sorted, inspected & packaged IN THE USA!
• PRESS RELEASE: Peoria, AZ - August 7, 2011: NaturOli has been honored by "Organic Spa Magazine" for its selection as a "2011 Leading Personal Care Company" in the natural & organic marketplace. - Safe. Hypoallergenic. Biodegradable. 100% chemical & fragrance free. Ideal for sensitive skin & noses. Leaves laundry amazingly clean, soft & fresh. Superb for delicates, silks, wools, and organic fabrics. Excellent for cloth diapers. Odor removing. Healthy & nourishing for skin & hair care, too!
• Low sudsing - perfect for high efficiency (HE) & front loading washers. Reduces need for fabric softeners & dryer sheets. Saves money! Low cost per load. INCLUDES: Heavy-duty muslin wash bag(s) plus 8-page info & instructions (one wash bag per lb. or min. one per order).
• PLUS FREE BONUS: "Extreme 18X" Soap Nut liquid concentrated detergent & green multi-purpose cleaner trial - A $5.95 value - FREE!!!

Product Description

USDA CERTIFIED ORGANIC. 100% chemical free. The answer for sensitive skin & noses!

Acclaimed by the "Green Dot Awards, "Possibly the most significant green innovation in history for everyday household cleaning needs."
"...a business with a Green Dot Award is a business that can be trusted by consumers with stewardship of the environment."

"BEST ECO-FRIENDLY DETERGENT" by the Examiner!

Soap Nuts are Mother Nature's gift - 100% natural laundry soap. A safe, hypoallergenic, biodegradable alternative to harsh & harmful chemicals. If you suffer from allergies, sensitive skin, or want to do your part for a greener earth, Soap Nuts are a dream come true!

Soap Nuts are dried shells of the soapberry (a fruit) containing saponin (a highly effective cleaning agent) that works like most detergents & soaps, but WITH NO CHEMICALS! They have been used for ages in personal hygiene, hair care & multi-purpose cleaning. Easily converted to powder or liquid. Common to Asia, but only recently rediscovered in US & CA. NaturOli Soap Nuts are selected for optimal quality & guaranteed to be of the highest grade & effectiveness. Only wild harvested Sapindus Mukorossi soap berries - the most prized species.

Inspected, sorted, & packaged IN THE USA!!!

Simple to use:
- Put 5-6 shells (1/2 oz) in wash bag.
- Toss directly in washer with laundry. Don't overstuff loads!
- Reuse 4 - 7 times.

Wash bag(s) + full 8-pg info & instructions included. One wash bag per lb. or min. one per order.

Number of loads vary due to water temp, hardness, washer type, cycle selection, etc. Est. loads are based on 1/2 oz per medium sized loads. HE washers typically yield more loads. May use with traditional cleaning boosters as desired.

Tip: Start fresh! Run a couple warm or hot loads with rags or such to help purge washer of residual chemical buildup.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B001DSNLH2
• UPC: 897406002017
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,103 in Health & Personal Care (See Top 100 in Health & Personal Care)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, clean & safe way to wash clothes! TIPS..., July 22, 2011

By 

MariaSmiles (here) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: NaturOli Soap Nuts / Soap Berries. 1/2 lb. (80+ loads) USDA CERTIFIED ORGANIC! "Select" seedless. Rated "best" eco-friendly, natural laundry detergent. Green Dot Award Winner. 100% chemical free. + Extreme 18X trial - A $5.95 FREE BONUS! (Kitchen)

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I have been using these for 7 months and have been very happy with them. I am so glad to buy a laundry-cleaning product that does not come in a plastic jug, that does not leave a soap residue on my clothing or in my washer, and that cleans our clothes efficiently!

My fiancee, who has a very labor-intensive, sweaty, chemical-laden job, reports that even his work clothes come out of the washer smelling like nothing. Which is a huge improvement over the stinky pile of clothes he tosses in there! He likes that there is no scent on the clothes after they come out of the washer (no stench, no chemicals, no flowers, no perfume, just "clean").

The little bag is very durable and stays closed in the wash (we tie the drawstring in a knot for security). They also successfully run through the dryer. We have a front loading maytag commercial quality washer and a standard maytag gas dryer.

I purchased the 2 lb. bag, and I'm excited to finish it, so I can find a new use for the bag, as well. Reusable produce bag...travel lingerie bag... toiletries bag...etc.

I put "samples" of soap nuts from my big bag, into the little bags, and give to loved ones (I usually stuff the bag for them and tell them to store them in a ziploc bag or glass jar and only use about 5 or so nuts per "use", which equals about 5 loads. This way, they can get quite a few trials of them and have some on hand while waiting for their own shipment to arrive!). They sell a three-pack of the bags on amazon.

TIP 1: we keep a make-shift dry-erase board & marker on the wall by our washing machine to tally the washings with those IIII-slash line markings, using two lines for especially heavy or dirty loads. Once the nuts in the sack are washer-spent, we erase the markings on the board, dump the nuts into a big jug (for later boiling) and refill the sack. This is much easier than trying to remember/calculate how many uses the nuts had or have left (especially when two people use the same sack at different times).

The next three tips aren't about the direct use of this specific product, but since they are eco-laundry related, and about my general use of the product, I thought I'd add them:

TIP 2: Since these nuts don't attack stains, I also purchased (from Amazon) a spray bottle of BioKleen BacOut, which I keep in my laundry room for stains and problem spots. (I keep also one on each floor, for carpet spots.) Works better than other natural stain removers I have tried.

TIP 3: I don't use fabric softener, but I do put a few drops of essential oil in the fabric softener dispenser. I like how it makes my clothes smell and I think it helps repel mosquitoes as I haven't gotten bitten since I began doing this. I used to get bit very often, and others are getting bitten more then I am now.

TIP 4: In the dryer, I use organic wool dryer balls (bought on Amazon), with some drops of pure essential oil (usually lavender or peppermint). I put the drops on the balls and then toss them in for a brief Air Fluff (no heat) to dry the oil before I put my clothes in the dryer. No icky chemical (or expensive natural) separate fabric softener needed!


Disclosure: Amazon Verified Purchase: NaturOli Soap Nuts / Soap Berries. 2 lbs. (320+ loads). These nuts are the same product, in a different quantity.


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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent product!, September 19, 2011

By 

Book Lover - See all my reviews

This review is from: NaturOli Soap Nuts / Soap Berries. 1/2 lb. (80+ loads) USDA CERTIFIED ORGANIC! "Select" seedless. Rated "best" eco-friendly, natural laundry detergent. Green Dot Award Winner. 100% chemical free. + Extreme 18X trial - A $5.95 FREE BONUS! (Kitchen)

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!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clean Fresh Laundry, May 15, 2011

By 

C. Howe (Golden, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: NaturOli Soap Nuts / Soap Berries. 1/2 lb. (80+ loads) USDA CERTIFIED ORGANIC! "Select" seedless. Rated "best" eco-friendly, natural laundry detergent. Green Dot Award Winner. 100% chemical free. + Extreme 18X trial - A $5.95 FREE BONUS! (Kitchen)

I have tried other brands of soap nuts over the years but have been impressed with the quality of NaturOli soap nuts vs the others. My laundry comes out clean and fresh I like that I'm not using chemicals on my clothes. I would recommend this product to others.