Dr. Bronner’s soap brand became a touchstone of wellness culture
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#2It's an excellent product except for one flaw - it clogs pumps and even their bottle caps very rapidly. I wish it didn't.
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#3Love the stuff. Buy one bottle and you can shower with it for months.
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#4We take Dr. Bronner's when we go camping. Wash up in a nice mountain lake without worrying about hurting the environment.
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#5The Straight Dope did a column on him in 1988:
https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/904/why-the-weird-...
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#6A friend of mine uses this stuff, the screed on the bottle reminds me of Time Cube.
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#7It's an excellent product except for one flaw - it clogs pumps and even their bottle caps very rapidly. I wish it didn't.
Dilute! Dilute!
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#8This article kind of glosses over some of the tougher parts of their origin story. I saw a documentary about Dr. Bronner's on, I think, Netflix perhaps 7 years ago and it talked about how their dad, the company's founder, was essentially an absentee father because he was off preaching his self styled religion and making soap. Apparently he also spent some number of years in an insane asylum in IL before heading out to California as I recall.
Love the product, don't feel like this article does their origin story justice.
Edit: looks like it isn't on Netflix streaming any more but I think it was called, "Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap Box" [0]
[0] https://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Dr-Bronner-s-Magic-Soapbox/700...
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#9Love the stuff. Buy one bottle and you can shower with it for months.
That's kind of my take on it. I started wondering why we need so many specialty soaps and decided you could use it for showering, shampoo, shaving. It probably would make a bad toothpaste though.
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#10The musings on the bottle are made from someone who’s really out there. Perhaps mentally ill. It’s expensive, I think $15 for a 32oz bottle. Lasted two weeks.