Totally agree. Thanks.

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Interesting thanks

Ooo great tips thank-you...

Your very welcome. I'm amazed how nice the washing comes out. So fresh. I haven't tested it on oily clothes yet though.

Hi there. Once all liquid used. Then use fresh water over them and repeat.

@@scarletpeate Alright, so up to three separate batches. Cool. Thank you! Gonna test tomorrow. :)

Hi there. Lovely to meet you. Right. Once properly dehydrated if driedvstore then should be shelf stable for a good year. You can freeze or refrigerate excess. I'm considering adding citric acid as a ingredient to extend life. As a nut I think they should last well I'm going to try making some after a year. You can use this for hair. Body. Dishes and clothes.

Lynn CeeCee & Scarlet Peate: You can vacuum this very easily. It’ll cost you absolutely zero if you Happened to enjoy carbonated water or soda pop. Save your bottle and the cap. Washer bottle out with Luke warm water and a little dish detergent. Rinse and let air dry. If it were for food purposes, I’d tell you to put a spoonful of bleach in the rinse water. But I think we can skip that here. Cut up and dry your conkers; put the pieces or powder into the pop bottle. Consider throwing in a moisture absorber like the ones you get in a medicine bottle or a Shoebox. Tap the product down in the bottom so that it is densely packed.Leave enough space in the bottle so that you can squeeze the air out. Squeeze the bottle to expel most of the residual air volume in the top of the jar, and then put on the cover. When you release the bottle, there should be a little dent in the side at the very least, to indicate that you’ve created vacuum in the bottle. Congratulations vacuum sealed and dry product at no charge to yourself, and it should certainly be preserved to last until the next conkers season. :)

Wow hi... love this... I am unable to give full response today ... I'm struggling with migraine.. I didn't want you to feel ignored so a quick hello and yes ill definitely get back to you shortly.. xx

@@scarletpeate : So sorry to hear that you’re going through this. I hope you’ve got something that does a great job of getting rid of the migraine quickly for you. It used to be my job to do the neuro- rehabilitation in a specialty clinic; pretty much all the patients who sought treatment there suffered from debilitating migraine, so that was one of the first issues that we normally helped address, since it affected every other parameter of their lives, and affected how well they were able to participate in other forms of rehabilitation. About migraine, You may already know about these things, but just in case, I hope you don’t mind if I offer up a couple of ideas in the interest of making your life easier: not everybody knows that the first stage of a migraine is actually not painful. And because there’s such a big gap between the first symptoms and the onset of the headache, they don’t often even realize that they’re having one at that point. The first signs can be as many as even 24 hours or more before the actual headache hits. This phase is called the prodrome, and the three most common ways that I’ve heard people express the experience is that s/he woke up in the morning with a sense of impending doom that was pervasive and which s/he could not seem to shake; s/he woke up in the morning totally depressed with no discernable reason; and lastly: at any time of the day, s/he suddenly started having to pee a lot, without having had much or even anything at all to drink. The urine colour may be off in a very specific way. It would seem like s/he’d only just come back from taking a whiz, and no time later s/he’d have to go take another one, and another…. There’s a progression of things that happens between waking up in the morning and possibly already having the symptoms, to the onset of the actual headache, assuming that’s the expression your migraines take (because a lot of them for some people or body migraines or silent migraines). The last one in the progression is often the one where the five senses are affected; when these happen, you can regard that as a last warning to take your meds or remedies before the pain hits, in the hopes of a aborting the migraine completely or at the very least mitigating the symptoms in terms of intensity, duration, and severity. And if you can do that in time, it’s possible to not only abort the migraine before the headache phase can form, but also not have to deal with the days’ worth of postdromal “hangover“. You’re probably familiar with at least some of the five-senses involvement. The visual disturbances are the ones that seem to make the strongest impressions on people, and they can range from strange light patterns in the vision, to extremely enhanced vision with higher resolution and colours, temporary loss of useable vision or vision at all. That’s usually in the last 20 minutes or less before the headache hits. Before that, scents can become magnified. Food smells can become so strong that they can be nauseating. Walking past somebody who has outworked his/her deodorant can be almost traumatizing. Around the same time as the olfaction symptoms happen, sound likewise becomes amplified. And it’s not just your imagination. You can hear conversations being held on the other side of the house, insects walking across the floor… You’ll never do a better job of tuning an instrument then you will at this moment, because your hearing is so nuanced. Some people feel that “pins And needles” sensation. When the smells and sounds become really amplified, sometimes it’ll actually turn your stomach. That’s when nausea and intestinal upset can occur. In terms of usefulness, my thinking is that if you know that these things could happen and you’re watching for it, and can recognize it for what it is; that puts you in a position to take your treatment that you’ve worked out with your MD/ND/pharmacist, while it’s possible to abort the migraine before it forms. The other thing, and you may already know this as well, is that there are 13 identified triggers of migraine, and many of them are addressed in the migraine protocol that a person usually gets at the hospital, assuming a non-opioid approach: Usually the hospital replenishes treats a migraineur/-euse with fluids and electrolytes, adding Benedryl (aka diphenhydramine, in case you don’t live in an area where that’s a common brand name for a specific histamine H-1 antagonist), and Gravol/Dramamine (dimenhydrinate) to the IV infusion. Which suggest preventative measures, too. This ran a bit long, but these are things that I wish somebody had told me early on; a whole lot of years of misery could have been a lot more functional. Feel better soon.❤️

Hello there at last I'm feeling better and found your comment again so I cam answer you.. I've been considering your points.. Firstly I use various things to wash with.. I make soap ... so I also use grated soap and other items added to create a washing powder .. its great I love using these horse chestnuts to wash with They leave the washing clean and fresh... i will add vinegar to dirty loads iwill use high temperature too and I use the sun's action to bleach and refresh the clothes.. I do not have tons of whites to wash as my water on the farm is contaminated with iron bacteria so my water sysins the whites... I find using sunshine vinegar and temperatures dependant on what I need from my wash.. I still highly recommend these nuts to wash with .. I hope that helps .. thankyou for your patience . X

@@scarletpeate : i’m glad you’re past that migraine. Those things are vicious. Thank you so much for getting back to me, Scarlet. Your help is invaluable. Especially now, since the chestnuts just ripened a month early and have started to fall from the trees. It seems that everything here did ripen that a month early. But it means that the month that I would have spent figuring things out, to be ready to start testing, is not there. I also make my own soap, (My absolute favourite every day soap is the Zenda’s soap that I found online long ago) but I may have to modify the formula if I’m going to use any of it in this application, because of the fact that I superfat it and add oat flour to it, for dry skin. I don’t want to defeat the saponification properties of the chestnut powder/flakes By putting together two products that are pretty much gonna cost one do you wanna do the work of the other. Lol. I’d appreciate it if you would give me an idea as to the type of soap formulation that you find to be most practical with this. I’ve probably already missed you for the day, so I may try a load with sunlight hand soap, as it’s been around for a dogs’ age and is pretty much ubiquitous. If it works, that will make the idea easy to pass along. This is very encouraging indeed, because it also tells me that it may be possible to use the chestnut flakes to cut detergent. That might do a good job of reducing the expense greatly. It may be a good idea to involve a couple more committee members on this, so that I’ve got a few people working on a along side of me, applying your ideas, to see if we can get the formulation correct while the chestnuts are fresh and available for people to collect. So the formula that you use generally speaking, is maybe 50-50 soap greetings and Chestnut Bits? I found some chestnuts ripened two nights ago, so I took the first few that night and cut them into little bitty bits, I put them in the dehydration unit. They were done yesterday, so I’m hoping (optimistically) today to put on my first load of laundry. :D

No just soak them to get soap out

U Tim they are totally brittle

easily over night

Thanks