Nuts to laundry!

Pub date March 13, 2007
WriterMarke B.
SectionPixel Vision

Divine intern Sam Devine gets soapy:

Laundry day will be different today. I’m using a new hippy product from Santa Cruz to clean my clothes: Soap Nuts, the soap that grows on trees.

Soap grows on trees?

Yeah, turns out Soap Nuts are the dried fruit of the Chinese Soapberry tree. According to a letter from Maggie’s Pure Land Products, people have been using the cracked apricot looking little bastards to wash clothes for thousands of years.

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Now, what I could really use are some laundry quarters grown on trees, but I’ll settle for soap.