Soap Nuts Powder

[Lori]

I ground some soap nuts powder after receiving a sticky batch of soap
nuts from a seller on Ebay. I didn’t want them to go to waste so I
made soap nuts powder and some soap nuts liquid.

I put the soap nuts powder in my bath tub sometimes, and I use it as
an exfoliating scrub on feet and hands.

A few days ago I was looking at a greasy bath tub ring caused by a
gift of bath oil and just could not bring myself to use a chemical
cleaning product on the tub, I soak in the bath tub for hours and the
last thing I want is toxic chemicals being absorbed by my skin or to
inhale the fumes from the residue.
It struck me that since soap nuts are a great multi-purpose chemical
free cleaner for my house and my laundry, maybe I could use the soap
nuts powder sitting on the side of my tub as a scouring powder
(cleanser). I really had nothing to lose except the ingredients for
the test.

I scooped a bit of soap nuts powder onto a moist sponge and began to
scrub. As it turned out all I really had to do is wipe in a circular
motion without any real scouring. Of course, soap nuts have never
failed or disappointed me, and that day was no exception.

Sure enough soap nuts powder was a perfect solution to scouring the
oily residue off my bath tub. No scratches, enough foaming to let me
know the saponin was being released and the outcome was a sparkling
clean, chemical free, residue free bathtub. Wow!

Filled with excitement I thought hey why not try in on that nasty
black ring at the top edge of the toilet bowls. Now this took a bit of
elbow grease since the ring has been a battle for months.

I scrubbed under the rim and saw the ring begin to disappear. Well, as
I scrubbed I realized from the smell that it was actually fungus,
mildew in fact like you get in the corners of the shower. The constant
moisture in the toilet bowl ring feeds the mildew colony.

Since soap nuts are a natural antifungal it worked like a charm. It
had been building (and growing) for quite some time so I did need to
employ an additional technique I learned on a natural non-toxic
cleaning site. This was simple though. I took a cheap pumice stone
like you use on callouses and scoured up under the edge of the toilet
bowl to get the last imbedded bits of mildew to come loose.

I flushed the toilet and then did one last scrub with the soap nuts
powder. Sparkling results without chemicals, what’s not to love?

You will notice, as I have, that the ring has not begun to grow back
even after a week since I scrubbed with soap nuts powder. I plan to do
this at least once a week to keep the mildew from coming back in the
toliets.

So if you have soap nuts powder sitting around, or you want to find
another way to use soap nuts and replace yet another chemical cleaning
product in the house, try substituting soap nuts powder on all the
things you now use cleanser or scouring powder. You will be thrilled I
am sure.

Soap nuts create no fumes so unlike most toilet bowl cleaners you
won’t have to wear a mask or ventilate the bathroom when you scrub
with soap nuts powder. I didn’t even wear gloves, you might want to
use gloves.

Another note, sorry to talk dishwashing and toilets in the same post,
but since many use steel wool pads or other scrubbing pads, or
cleanser for pots and pans, try this same technique on those stuck on
messes. The soap nuts will definitely suds in this use, and the powder
is non-abrasive so you don’t have to worry about scratching your pots
and pans or dishes.

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