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Savings Using Greener Living Soap Nuts
Usually, non-toxic and/or green products not only cost more, often significantly more, but they are also significantly less effective than the products we are trying to replace! Fortunately, neither of these are true for soap nuts. In this case you can go green without spending green!
Okay, so you're ready to give Greener Living Soap Nuts a go but you find yourself wondering, "What if I do not like them and will I really save money?" To answer your first question, we offer a no questions asked (although we are curious) 30 day Money Back Guarantee. A full refund less shipping costs, of course. We are so confident that you will love the results, we really want to take the stress out of deciding to try them. Personally, the longer I use our soap nuts, the more I love them. For whatever reason, it just keeps getting better. I do not understand it, but it does. Just this morning as I grabbed a fresh towel, I had to stop to revel in its softness and how clean it felt, now that I know what clean actually feels like. Anyway, we have taken the risk out of trying our Soap Nuts.
Now, the even bigger question is, "Will I really save money?" Here is where my math major comes into play hopefully saving you the time of doing all of this. In all fairness to soap nuts, really the only true comparison is soap nuts versus other natural laundry detergents. But, I decided to compare soap nuts to leading brand natural laundry detergents, a leading laundry detergent and even to making your own laundry detergent! Since soap nuts are a natural fabric softener, softener sheets have been added in to each of the above but not to the per load cost of soap nuts.
Here is what I found.
Assumptions:
10 loads per week
2 small scoops of Oxi-Clean for white/light loads
Fabric softener sheets, if using other than soap nuts
Greener Living Soap Nuts*
One 2.2lb bag of Greener Living Soap Nuts will do approximately 400 loads. So, at $38 a bag, the per load cost is 9.5 cents. Two scoops of Oxi-Clean is 29 cents. Total weekly cost would be $1.24 with an annual cost of $64.48.
7th Generation Laundry Powder and 7th Generation Dryer Sheets*
Average cost per load of 7th Generation Laundry Powder (or Nellie's Nuggets) was 33 cents per load. Add in 9.2 cents per load for 7th Generation fabric softener dryer sheets plus two scoops of Oxi-Clean at 29 cents. Total weekly cost is $4.49 with an annual cost of $233.48.
Tide HE and Bounce Dryer Sheets*
Average cost per load of Tide HE was 14.5 cents plus 4.2 cents for the Bounce Dryer Sheets and two scoops of Oxi-Clean for 29 cents. Total weekly cost comes to $2.28 with an annual cost of $118.56.
Make Your Own Laundry Detergent*
Search the internet and you will find recipes to make your own laundry detergent some ingredients of which are not the easy to find. Per their website, the cost to make your own is only 2.25 cents per load plus 4.25 cents per load for a dryer sheet and 29 cents for 2 scoops of Oxi-Clean. Total weekly cost would be $.94 with an annual cost of $48.88.
Conclusion
The only way to pay less to do laundry is to find the time and the wherewithal to make your own. I am going to assume that this is not an option for most of us, even if it might be fun to do once. Then you would have all those ingredients sitting on a shelf for years, making the cost for that first batch nothing short of outrageous.
I still think the fairest comparison is against other natural products in which case the annual savings would be $169 over the cost of using Greener Living Soap Nuts. Over 10 years that is $1690 and over an average 60 years in which we do our own laundry, that cost savings would be a whopping $10,140!
Since more than likely your costs are closer to the Tide HE and Bounce scenario, what would it cost to not switch to Greener Living Soap Nuts? The cost would be $54.08 more per year, or nearly double soap nuts. This would be an additional $540.80 over 10 years and $3244.80 over a 60 year washing lifetime.
I hope this analysis makes trying Greener Living Soap Nuts with its 30 Day Money Back Guarantee an easy choice for you and your family.
*Note: does not take into account taxes, shipping, cost of gas, your time etc. which tended to balance each other out in each of the cases provided. Pricing was based on calculated averages for our area updated for 2010. I would expect the costs of store brands to increase at a faster pace in the future than the price of soap nuts.