My Pearl of The Day: Berry Plus (review)

BerryPlus is an aweseom all-natural

laundry detergent. Being natural is pretty dang special, but what makes it real unique is that it's actually made from berries -- soapberries!

 BerryPlus is surprisingly an effective, eco-friendly laundry detergent. Its lack of fragrance is a plus to sensitive folks like myself who either have allergies or are migraine prone (that's me!) Or even people who have neither but simply dislike using harmful ingredients like that you find in a lot of the laundry detergents on shelves.

I know some of you are thinking just what I did at first, won't that stain light clothes? Although the liquid does have a red-ish shade to it, it actually doesn't stain.

BerryPlus is made in the USA using imported soap berries.

 The berries have actually been used for years in India and Asia as a laundry detergent since the berries turn kind of soapy when added to water and shaken. That's awesome, huh? I guess God really has supplied us with absolutely everything we could ever possibly need (laundry detergent from soap berries! The guy's a genius.)

I'm really excited about this Berry Plus detergent! It's been magnificent to have an opportunity to try it, and it actually works better than I ever could've imagined.

I will just jump right in here. Forgive me if I am all over the place.

BerryPlus comes in a plastic container with a dropper lid, which is oh-so-handy since you can simply squeeze the dropper and add it to your laundry. No scoops or mess from pouring via a lid.

Also, the dropper has mL on it to help with dosing your semi-dirty or extremely dirty laundry.

BerryPlus laundry detergent will take care of a whole 20 loads for ya (less if you have super dirty laundry and use more at once, like I do). 

The smaller bottle (the one shown in this post) comes with 55 mL of liquid. It did surprise me at how long a bottle lasts, even with extra-use per load.

BerryPlus does come in other sizes, though. There's the smallest option: 20 loads (the one shown here,) 40 load bottle and 80 load.

Again, BerryPlus is fragrance free and allergen free, so it's a very safe option.

Things I adore about BerryPlus:

The BerryPlus website gives plenty of useful information and answers any question one could have about their product. I also feel that they're a very trustworthy, ethical company with a fantastic quality product. 

For starters, it's non-GMO! That's my favorite kind of any product.

They say on their website that their product is equally as effective as the leading brands. I can vouch for that as I have used the BerryPlus for a couple of months now (still have a few loads left before the bottle is empty!) and I would go so far as to say that BerryPlus actually does a better job than any of the regular ol' store-bought stuff I've used. Seriously. I couldn't believe it myself.

I have used nothing but BerryPlus since I got the bottle. I actually prefer it over the other junk from the stores. I still had a lot of it on-hand when the bottle of BerryPlus arrived and I haven't touched any of that stuff since. In fact, I did a load of jeans with BerryPlus today -- works perfectly well. 

P.S. You can read BerryPlus' "promises" here. Very awesome things.

I loved the idea of BerryPlus and how the company said it's safe on your clothing (probably even safer than the harsh detergents we're used to), safe on us, our washing machines and the planet. That's fantastic, but I really didn't think Berries would be enough to really, really clean a load of very dirty clothing. It does and it does it magnificently.

As I said, I think it may even do better than the store-bought detergents. I say this because I've noticed my colored clothes looking brighter! Even the dingy whites -- using no stain remover, only BerryPlus -- are looking fabulous and not nearly as dingy and stained up. 

That said, BerryPlus is a keeper for everyday laundry use, including heavy, stinky and stained. I've never even had to use the BerryPlus as a pre-treatment (letting it sit) because it takes out stains (coffee, regular crud you get on white clothing) like a charm.

One more thing: You don't have to use softener with it. BerryPlus is said to soften, too. I don't really use softener on my actual t-shirts anyways, so I didn't find it hard to resist adding other softener or anything with Berry Plus. I also didn't notice any difference in the softness of my clothes, but that's not something I ever pay much attention to. They don't feel hard, and I never really felt like the store-bought softener really made clothes any softer anyways. However, my clothes do feel exactly the same after washing with BerryPlus as they did when I'd use softener and regular detergent, so that's a positive. 

Oh, guess I lied. There's actually one more thing: I wondered if my clothes would have that loose hand-washed feel to them once I washed without store-bought detergent and only BerryPlus. For some reason, I thought they might not have that just-washed fit to them. Anybody else know what I mean? When you've worn your clothes, especially jeans for a long day, they become loose-ish on you, and once washed again, they have the brand new fit all over again. Anybody follow this or am I the only one who has this happen?

Anyways, Jeans still come out of the washer with that brand-new fit to them. I was happy that BerryPlus really doesn't seem a lot different for my clothes as using regular detergent except the color seems better, there's no fragrance and all that good stuff.

Otherwise, the difference is not noticeable. It's perfectly effective.

 

All in all, I'm very, very impressed, BerryPlus!

Ingredients (the best part)

• 95% berry-based (berries + water)
• 4.5% vegetable glycerin (for stability and added softening)
• 0.3% olive-leaf extract (to kill bacteria and other junk)
• 0.1% each of potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate (food-grade preservative to give Berryplus a shelf life)

Instructions: 2 squirts per load. Use another for extra large, dirty loads.

Pre-treat by squirting a few drops onto tough stains and  adding the rest to the washing machine load.

"Don’t be fooled by its size – this small but mighty microdose is perfectly measured to wash a full 30lb load of laundry!"

BerryPlus can be used to do laundry anywhere you typically do laundry -- sink, washing machine, laundromat (it travels easily) and even in the woods, BerryPlus says, which is true. It'd even work there.

Just for good measure, and to try and be a little more helpful to my readers and give more than just "it really cleans clothing well," I've decided to take you guys along as I tried the Berry Plus Laundry Detergent! Now, it's a little tough to show results via photos, so bear with me.

Yea, I really wasn't kidding when I said I made an attempt to really take you readers with me on the journey! I even took a photo as I was adding the BerryPlus. That you see is a full dropper (it won't hold more than what you see), so I added 4 droppers to this load.

  

What I chose to wash was the dirtiest item I had at the time -- a perfectly dried-muddy comforter. My beloved reversible zebra print comforter that my beloved (although a little less after this mess. Kidding! Kidding) Pookie muddied up after a trip to the creek one morning. Ugh. He sometimes ventures outdoors for a stroll to the neighbors' in the morning (he's friends with their poodle dog, whom I gave them). On the way out there, he has to cross the creek in our backyard and since his legs are about as long as my index finger (he's a wiener), he has to actually walk through the creek to get there.

The creek. It's muddy. So when Pookie returns from his morning stroll (usually with a doggie treat in mouth), he gets in my bed and muddies it up.

Of course he hasn't responded to my scolding him over it. It still happens.

So I decided it was the perfect moment to put the BerryPlus to the test! If you'll notice, the other side of my comforter is white.. The enemy of all pet-owners and in-bed-eaters (I'm both). 

Below is my attempt to photograph a close-up of  Pookie's muddy spot:

Take note of all the cat hair.

And these are the after pictures. I washed the comforter using only the BerryPlus. Not a single stain remover, and look how white that baby is! Yes, it was white to begin with, but had a lot of crud, including loads of pet hair on it.

The black side that was previously muddy and covered with Fuzz's hair:

I tried my best at getting the full comforter in the photo so you guys could really see it all. Hope this works. Of course there's a hair or two on it (one is mine. What can I say, I shed too!), but all very wonderful considering how bad my pets and I shed. I was surprised it came out with only a few little new hairs on it. This is unusual.

Oh, and of course the comforter was not the only thing to get cleaned after that muddy disaster:

This is Pookie (for those of you who haven't yet met him) He's all clean and brand new after the mud journey, laying wrapped in a towel on the freshly cleaned and applied zebra print bed-spread. Thanks, BerryPlus!  

 

 

 

Poor little guy was cold, and the wet towel had to go, so my sweetheart loaned Pookie his own jacket to warm up in.

 

And he supplied him with a cozy pillow, too!

 

Oh, and I did not use BerryPlus to wash Pookie, just so you know. I figured I might should clarify since I said he got cleaned, too. Nope. We use a natural coconut oil soap on him, but now that I think about it, BerryPlus might would be safe on pets... Nevermind. That could be something I shouldn't say (disclaimer will be at bottom!)

 

Disclaimer (I know, I hate them, too, but these days you kind of can't afford to note post them.):

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