So, I’d been hearing musings about soap nuts in my cloth diapering and natural parenting circles, and my curiosity was piqued.  In my quest to become more eco-conscious, I recently jumped on the wool dryer ball bandwagon and had a strong desire to go completely natural with my laundering.
I will be honest and say that, even after reading about soap nuts, I still couldn’t wrap my mind around how they worked.  How can something that’s not soap create ‘soap’?  More to the point, how on earth would soap nuts actually work? [Read more…]