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(NaturalNews) American consumers are increasingly aware that plastics contain bisphenol-A, air fresheners contain phthalates, and antibacterial soaps contain a chemical called Triclosan, but few people realize that laundry detergent products often contain synthetic chemicals that pose a hazard to human health as well as the environment. Consumer health website NaturalNews has now teamed up with Maggie's Soap Nuts to acquire enough natural, eco-friendly laundry detergent to wash 500,000 loads of laundry in an environmentally friendly way, and it is distributing the product to readers in an effort to replace chemical laundry detergents with a safer, more natural alternative.
The solution to toxic laundry detergents? Soap nuts! Grown by Mother Nature and harvested from the sapindus mukorrosi tree, soap nuts contain a natural laundry soap in the skin of their shells. When washed with water, they release their natural saponins which act as surfactants, helping water bind with dirt and grime, lifting particles away from clothing in the same way that laundry detergent does, but without resorting to the use of synthetic chemicals.
A previously-published article on NaturalNews describes these soap nuts (also called "soap berries") in more detail: http://www.NaturalNews.com/021875.html
Soap nuts replace all commercial laundry detergents with a 100% natural laundry soap grown by Mother Nature. They contain absolutely no synthetic chemicals or additives, and they're sustainably harvested in countries like Indonesia, India and Taiwan. The soap contained in the shell of the soap berry is highly concentrated: Just two or three soap nut shells cleans an entire load of laundry. The saponins also naturally exhibit antibacterial and antifungal properties, leading to fresh, clean smelling clothes without the need for artificial fragrance chemicals.
Click here to order soap nuts from BetterLifeGoods.com.
Soap berries have been used for generations in Asian countries, but their use fell out of favor when manufactured "western" laundry products began to appear on the market in the mid 1900's. In much the same way that Asian consumers have begun to experience typical western diseases (like cancer and heart disease) as they abandoned their traditional diets in favor of processed western foods, their adoption of western chemical products instead of using local solutions from nature is also contributing to a sharp rise in disease throughout the region. Today, only "poor" families in Asia continue to use soap nuts to wash their clothes. "Rich" families used processed, packaged and heavily marketed chemical detergent products in much the same way that they now increasingly eat processed foods.
A cooperative purchase for NaturalNews readersHere at NaturalNews, we believe that Mother Nature creates better products than chemical factories. Due to a very high level of interest in natural laundry detergent by our readers, we sought to acquire a large quantity of this product at a volume price, packaged in an environmentally-friendly way. Working with Maggie's Soap Nuts, we were able to complete this acquisition and make these soap nuts available in a 1kg cloth bag at half the price (per ounce) of the previous soap nuts product we offered. Now, the new 1kg soap nuts product cleans clothes at a cost of only about 15 cents per load (which is less than many commercial laundry detergents made with synthetic chemicals).
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