-White linen

Soapnuts contain no bleaching agents and no optical brighteners - so if you like your whites dazzlingly white you might want to add  a laundry bleach.

-Resistant stains

In such case (blood, egg, grass, mud, milk, sweat, ice-cream, oil or jam stains), add some  stain remover on resistant stains and put it together with the remaining of the wash.

-Disposing of Soap Nuts

When the saponin has been used up the shells will fall apart in tiny bits – at this point you can safely throw them on your compost heap where they will help your plants.  Soapnut water is not harmful for your septic tank.

-Wash instructions:

Put 3-5  soapnuts shells (according to the table below) in the small cotton bag found in the package, close it and put it among linen in the washing-machine. Soapnuts can remain till the end of washing cycle, as rinsing water is cold and very little saponine will thus remain on linen. Soapnuts will replace both detergent and conditioner. It is also great for babies’ and sensitive skin.

Tips:

-Give a scent to your washing

Using soapnuts, the scent will be neutral. You can therefore spray the cotton bag with a few drops of your favorite  essential oil (lavender, lemon, tea tree…) to add scent on the linen before introducing it in the washing machine.

-Make sure that your washing bag doesn't end up in the dryer.

Soapnuts can't take the extreme heat and will fall apart.