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Electrolux E-Wash and Soapnuts
Filed under chemical free laundry detergent, soap nut usesJul 20A washing machine designed specifically for soapnut users.
As you probably already know, soapnuts have been used for centuries in places like India and Nepal as a chemical free laundry detergent. Levente Szabó from Moholy-Nagy University of Art & Design, Hungary has designed a washing machine which won Electrolux Design Lab 2007 competition. The 2007 Electrolux Design Lab challenged students to come up with environmentally-sound, commercially-viable products and solutions that would enable consumers to live in greater harmony with the environment.
So if you are looking for more ways to live in greater harmony with the environment and aren’t ready to revert to washing your clothes by the stream and pounding them on a rock to get them clean while protecting the environment you should seriously consider looking for Electrolux E-Wash.
Of course, soapnuts can be used in a standard washing machine and are ideal for front loading machines because of the low sudsing the soapnuts generate.
I use soapnuts in place of dishwashing detergent also and have never been so happy to do dishes or laundry. There is an especially heart-warming feeling to knowing I am protecting the environment and my family from toxic chemicals, reducing the amount of pollution and waste our household generates and reducing the cost of my housekeeping expenses.
Imagine all that from something that grows on a tree, is about the size of a large grape, reduces the need for fabric softeners and dryer sheets, improves the economic situation for the people who harvest them, costs the consumer less than twenty cents per load of laundry, is harvested without the expenditure of fossil fuels or machinery, and does exactly what it promises to do.
Who wouldn’t want to use soapnuts?
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