Soapberry is an important Ayurvedic herb that is very useful in external cleansing, personal care and in certain diseases. In this post, we looked at how a wealth of cleansing herbs exist across the world, which were used by indigenous cultures to safely and environmentally sustainably do various cleansing and healing tasks.

India is rich in botanical herbs. The diversity of healing herbs by state, climate and geography is truly astonishing in India. A great wealth of knowledge about how these herbs can be used exists in the Ayurvedic texts, in the Siddha system and in the traditional folklore among community healers of forest dwelling tribes and indigenous communities. We explored the formal knowledge about the Soapberry in this post across Ayurveda as we delved into the multiple benefits of Soapberries.

We understand that the soapberry is so much more than a foaming, cleansing natural replacement to a synthetic detergent or surfactant like SLS and SLeS. Instead it has multiple beneficial properties like being excellent at resolving Vata and Kapha imbalance, helping in pain and inflammatory conditions, resolving skin diseases and itching due to various reasons, and is also helpful in removing toxins and reducing the formation of eruptive skin conditions.