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This is my first time using soap nuts as an alternative to the more traditional laundry detergents. I had heard about them, but I have to be honest and say when I saw them I was not sure they would work. They look so different to anything I have used to do my laundry and so I didn’t know what to expect.These soap nuts came well presented in a large muslin bag and there are three smaller muslin bags that you use to put the soap nuts in when doing the laundry. The bag contains 1kg of soap nuts and as I live in a hard water area, I use between 6 and 8 half nut shells – these weigh under 10g for each wash, so as you can see there are plenty of washes to be had out of this 1kg bag.A few tips:• I always tie a secure knot on the muslin bag once the soap nuts are in to prevent them from slipping out of the bag.• I don’t ever throw them away after a single wash. I tend to use the same lot of soap nuts up to 4 times. If you want to check if they are still working, just run the muslin bag with the soap nuts in under the tap and squeeze. If foam is still coming out of the muslin bag, then they can still be used for another wash.• I add a few drops of essential oil to my dispenser drawer – I use either lavender or sweet orange oil instead of fabric softener and this makes the laundry smell wonderful.I have to say I have been really impressed with these soap nuts and I will continue to use them. They wash the laundry well without damaging the fibres of the clothes, so whereas the commercial detergents I have used tend to make our clothes fade, these keep them in good condition.This bag has already lasted me a couple of months and I do laundry every day. As I use them multiple times I use roughly 20g of soap nuts a week. I have already had them for a couple of months and I haven’t even used a quarter of the bag yet, so they really are extremely good value for money. They are environmentally friendly and don’t have all the chemicals that can sometimes cause skin irritations, so they are great for washing babies clothes or for those with sensitive skin. I am definitely a fan of the soap nut and these soap nuts from Salveo are great.Thank you for taking the time to read this review.

Soap nuts are what they are. Natural nuts, that contain a small amount of saponins (soap). It's enough to wash your clothes to a hygenic level, but you need to understand the basics of getting clothes clean to appreciate them. The act of mechanical movement i.e. in a washing machine, combined with warm water does most of the work of removing the dirt from the garments. Saponins (soap) just break up the surface tension between the water and the dirt, allowing the mechanical movement to more easily remove it. That applies to all washing soaps/liquids. Modern day detergents are better at removing dirt to a point because of all the additives, but pre-treatment of stains is the key in any case. As a student I used to use Persil etc and never get stains out of my clothes and could never figure out why my mum was able. Because she spent hours every week pretreating my stains! So with pretreatment, which often (not always) involves soaking and scrubbing a stain with normal soap as soon as it occurs, these soap nuts bring out clean clothes. I add lavender oil to the dispenser if I want a slight fragrance, and occasionally white distilled vinegar as a softener. My t-towels, have some stains that I live with, the soapnuts don't produce a foam, and my clothes don't wreak of fragrance, but they are clean visually and hygienically. But there genuinely are saponins in the nuts. It's a price I'm willing to pay for a cheap, natural and more importantly simple product. You pop 3 or 4 in a tied up sock and throw in with the washing. My dad now uses them, not because they are natural, but because they're so simple. After a few washes you simply compost them. The only downside is they are shipped from India, but all things considered, shipping masses of these on cargo ships is a drop in the ocean compared to all the other resources we consume in our day to day lives, and must surely use far less oil than the petrochemical based detergents that most householders use.

This is an amazing product. The clothes are clean no need for fab softener so is very cheap to use, good for the planet. The only disadvantage is they are all stuck together and needed a good bashing to separate into small lumps.