Basic Liquid Soapnut Recipe
Liquid Soapnuts can be used for all sorts of cleaning, by just adding different EO's and/or white vinegar or some other natural cleaning items, (other recipe's to follow)
Firstly, here is how to make your basic Liquid Soapnut cleaning product.
I use 2 berries per cup of water, so you can make a large batch (and freeze some) or smaller batches as a when you need them.
Places berries and water in a saucepan and boil for about half and hour, If I am making a large batch I put a smaller amount of water at the start then, add the rest about half way through. I give them a good stir and squash them to get all the saponin out.
Once cooled strain through a muslin cloth. I first used a strainer which let little bits through, and I didn't have any muslin cloth, so I used one of the muslin bags I got with the berries, which was fine.
I did a big batch first off, and I froze some (tip- I placed in a kraft paper bag and marked do not eat on it ) They are a brown colour, so this should put people/kids off popping them in a drink, but its best to be extra careful!
I then re-used an old washing up bottle added some EO for washing up liquid and put the rest in an old glass jar, I placed both of them in the fridge to keep them fresh. They don't last too long, my'n only lasted about 2 weeks in the fridge, so I froze more after that, and made slightly smaller batches.
Apparently you can add citric acid to make them last longer but I have not tried this yet, If anyone has tried this, let me know what you thought of it. :-)
There will be a soapnutrecipe blog coming soon if it's not there already!!