Also sometimes referred to as soap nuts, of the Sapindus genus? Producing a fruit with high concentrations of saponin, a naturally-ocurring amphiphilic compound?
In other words, soap that grows on trees? Yes! It is a thing! You, my berry-eating comrades, do not have to fool with cooking down hardwood into ash and then soaking it into a toxic slurry in order to make soap to clean things up! You can actually just get that shit from a tree! There are trees for this specific thing!!!
Perhaps you'll be able to grow one in your climactic zone??? It will take a little more research than I'm willing to do for you while I'm drunk. Anyway, if you're going to use them, make sure you remove all the seeds, which will stain things, before you dry them for use.
NGL, they're pretty rad.
"The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago." :100-com:
are you trying to tell us that there's a remarkable money making opportunity in soap berries and that by buying into the soap berry distribution structure, I could increase my profit ten fold and that the only limit is the size of my network?
no doge I'm saying plant that shit (availability may vary by location, see ecology for details)
after a long day of planting soap berry trees, I like to reach for a Wolf Cola. Cold, refreshing. It's the choice for the new generation. Wolf Cola, take the plunge.
Where the hell am I gonna source a Sapindus marginatus seedling lmao
Nowhere, yr gonna have to start from seeds on these. But, the seeds are readily available.
Not on hand, but I'll look for you when I've got my real, non-phone bookmarks!
So you were right, marginatus is def more difficult to find than saponaria and the like, but I did find a US seller here - options abound for shipping from India & south Asia. They're sometimes called Jaboncillo or Florida Soapberry.
oh my god I never expected you to actually follow up holy shit comrade. Ordering them now and I will 100% update /c/gardening with my results. (Perhaps I can start the first Chapo Soapmaking Seed-trading Initiative)
