Yes! Soap Nuts are not actually nuts. Soap Nuts are actually a dried fruit related to the Litchi. People with nut allergies can safely use Cleanut®. Soap nuts (aka Chinese soapberries/ scientific name: Sapindus Mukorossi/ Hindu: Rheeta) got her English name because the kernel resembles hazelnuts and the softer outer shell, which contains the natural soap, looks like a Walnut shell.