Maggie's Pureland Giveaway

I first tried soapnuts over 6 months ago. I was having a conversation with a friend about ways to wash cloth diapers that wouldn't be irritating to the skin. We found many homemade chemical-free recipes but I still wasn't sold. I dug deeper and stumbled upon a site about soapnuts. I was curious. Can we really wash our clothing with a berry from a tree and have fresh, clean clothes? Is that possible? Surely we need chemicals to achieve a satisfactory level of clean, I thought. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that we don't! NO chemicals are needed. Soapnuts are simple. You can use them as a whole berry in a cotton cloth bag or you could boil them into water and use the liquid. Which ever is easier for you. I prefer the liquid because I could add my own essential oils.

Maggie's has their own liquid formula of soapnut liquid, tea tree oil and lavender essential oil. I love the scent and if you know about essential oils you'd know that tea tree and lavender have antibacterial/disinfecting properties to them. The thing with soapnuts that you need to know is that they are low sudsing. So if you don't see a million bubbles like store bought detergents that is perfectly normal. It's still working. Store bought detergents generally have a "foaming agent" mixed right in to create lots of bubbles and make us consumers think they are working so well. Soapnuts release their saponin slowly. If you wash in hot water you only need two nuts in the cotton bag and only use them once. If you wash on cold you use about 4 nuts and can reuse them up to 4 times generally.

Soapnuts can not only be used for laundry but also as a fruit/veggie wash, in the dishwasher, to hand wash dishes, your hair, skin problems like eczema, and as a natural pest repellant. There are so many uses for soapnuts. You'd be amazed.

From the Maggie's Pureland website:

The Pureland Promise:

At Maggie’s Pure LandTM we promise to act in harmony with life and nature. Our commitment to compassionate living provides you with the most natural products available, provides fair wages to workers, and protects our animal friends by never testing on them. We also donate 10% of our net proceeds to groups that improve the lives of mothers, children, and support a happy, Pure Planet Earth.

Maggie’s Soap NutsTM are the only laundry soap that grows on trees!
Truly effective, 100% natural and safe for your most sensitive skin.
Soap NutsTM are the dried fruit of the Chinese Soapberry tree.
They contain saponin, a natural cleaner used for thousands of
years to clean clothes, just like the plants used by Native Americans
for washing.

Simply put a few Soap Nuts into the included cotton sack and drop
it in your laundry. Your clothes come out clean, vibrant, and soft.
Replace your laboratory detergents and softeners with the soap
made from Nature by Nature. Your clothes, your skin, your family,
and your planet will thank you.

Maggie's is offering my readers a choice of either a 5 load soapnut sample or an 8 load liquid laundry soap. How do you enter? Go to Ayurvedic, on Maggie's website and read it. Then come back here and comment telling me one thing you learned and if you won, which sample you would like to try. That's it. I ask you to share this link on your facebook, blog, whatever. The world needs to know about such a great way to get a step closer to chemical free living. This giveaway will close on July 12th, 2010 at 11:59pm central time. Oh and I should mention, there will be two winners chosen at random. :)

If you would like to purchase Maggie's Pureland products please do so by clicking on this link:

http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?yhst-53059493803549+ypkSdq+index.html+

*Maggie's Pureland provided me with a free sample of this product to review. I was not required to write a positive review in return for the free products. My opinions are my own and were not influenced in any way. I received no monetary compensation for the review of this product.