The Natural Soap

By Paula Smythe

Is your current soap causing you unnecessary stress?

If I told you that switching to a completely natural, organic product used by native peoples for thousands of years could improve your skin, save you money, increase the life of your clothes, and benefit the environment would you be interested in learning more?

Well, I put together The Natural Soap booklet to teach you all about soap nuts, and show you how you can do all of that and more.

I’ll show you how to do your laundry and dishes, make shampoo and body wash, and clean anything else that needs cleaning - and it’s all done with a soap that grows on trees. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paula Smythe
• Release date: Feb 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386561712

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Soap Nuts: The Natural Soap

What Are Soap Nuts, And Why Should I Care?

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Until recently, I had never heard of soap nuts. If you're anything like me, then when your heard soap nuts you thought about some new trick to turn almonds into hand soap. I'm not alone on that one, am I?

As it turns out, soap nuts are not even nuts, but they are really soap. They are actually the berries of the Sapindus mukorossi tree - Sapindus literally means soap of India. Soap nuts have been used by native people of Asia for washing for thousands of years. And as it also turns out, they're really effective at cleaning just about everything. They live up to the hype.

So what are soap nuts? I'm glad you asked. As I just mentioned, they're actually berries from a tree that's related to the lychee fruit. Except soap nuts (sometimes called soap berries) are very bitter, and not at all good to eat. But, what they lack