A Hungarian design student called Levente Szabo - apparently, his surname means "tailor", appropriately - has won the Electrolux Design Lab 2007 competition with this concept washing machine that uses "soap nuts". The E-wash was a response to the brief to design a product that's both environmentally sound and commercially viable.
Taking his inspiration from India and Nepal where soap nuts - a.k.a. sapindus mucorussi - have been used successfully for centuries, Szabo designed the E-Wash to reduce the pollution of the washing process and packaging and transportation of detergents. The alternative soap would be great for people with allergies and a kilogram of the nuts would last the average person a whole year. The machine itself was also reduced in size and flattened so that it would fit into a small flat and yet take a large load of clothes.
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