Love the stuff. Buy one bottle and you can shower with it for months.
10 years ago a store near me was going out of business and had a 1 gallon jug of Peppermint Dr. Bronner’s for $22. I still have about 1/5 of it left!
Dr. Bronner’s soap brand became a touchstone of wellness culture
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#42I think they did a fabulous job with the product label on their soap bottles. It looks like a super cramped newspaper / exam cheat sheet and is what caught my attention a few years ago at the grocery store amongst hundred of other soaps. I also love the peppermint smell and it lasts forever!
It seems to hearken back to the 20s or 30s? when everything you can say about a product was labeled on the product: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/32/cb/43/32cb43687e9d39e31466...
No, if you actually read the label you'll notice it's basically a religious tract preaching a weird quasi-spirituality nonsense. I do like that in those days you have to actually create a useful product so people would listen to you, instead of now where you just need a Twitter account
> Emanuel wasn’t a businessman (or a doctor, for that matter). He was an activist who, in the wake of his parents’ deaths in the Holocaust, began using his soap’s label as a, well, soapbox for proselytizing his “All-One!” thoughts and ideas. His philosophy, which he eventually named the “Moral ABC,” comprised a grab bag of religion, spirituality, environmentalism, and self-help, and its peculiarity was matched only by its ambition: peace and harmony on “Spaceship Earth.”
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#43I gave out their bars of soap to people all the time, even in business settings. I'm a disciple for sure.
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#44Near the end of 2015 I joined a startup and was relocating from Victoria to SF. The startup was in a Haight Ashbury house converted into multiple units. So this made it extra convenient to sleep in the office until I found a place to rent. Also, my family didn’t plan to join me for a few months. There were a couple other non-local coworkers who regularly shared the space in the early days. Dr Bronner’s Peppermint soa…
> a previous blue bottle that had generously been left there.
Sounds like that might have been the baby unscented variety instead of the peppermint. Both have blue labels but the peppermint one is a darker shade.
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#45The best advice I ever read for Dr. Bonnner’s was to buy one scent for the shower and a different one for the kitchen. As no-one wants their dishes to smell the same as their private parts.
I've got a better tip for you. Only use soap in the shower, when you're actually dirty. Sweat washes off just fine with water only. Your skin will thank you.
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#46I find this quite interesting, I'd never heard of this until a while ago (I'm in the EU) but apparently it seems really, really popular with American travelers and backpackers and even people who got in touch with it in the US.
I see the downvoted comment about mountain hiking, but I meant more the urban folks. Also while it's probably a small sample, there basically don't seem to be any alternatives if you look at a few subreddits on that topic :P
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#47Label is crazy ok ok but think your reading it will entertain while you brush teeth oh no not this Bronner use other bottle ok ok good stuff ok.. peppermint have good smell hands... Man the label jive drove me crazy.
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Unfortunately, none of those things imply that it is safe for wildlife in a mountain lake. Here's a good overview: https://grist.org/living/ask-umbra-is-it-ok-to-lather-up-in-...
I'm well aware of what phosphorus and surfectants of your average soap can do but Dr. Bronner's has none of that. Here's the entire ingredients list: - Citric Acid - Mentha Arvensis (flowering plant in the mint family) - Organic Coconut Oil - Organic Fair Deal Hemp Oil - Organic Jojoba Oil - Organic Olive Oil - Organic Peppermint Oil - Potassium Hydroxide (AKA Saltwater soap) - Tocopherol (oils containing vitamin E)…
All soaps have surfactants, it's literally what makes soap soap.
Surfactant production is achieved by mixing an alkaline with fat to produce a chemical reaction. In this case potassium hydroxide is the alkaline and the vegetable oils are the fats.
But even if that wasn't the case, at the very least, you shouldn't be introducing peppermint oil to aquatic ecosystems as its toxic to many animals.
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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.
> It probably would make a bad toothpaste though. I can confirm, it is bad, I tried it camping once. But I mean you could uses it if you had no alternatives.
I knew a guy who probably spent most of the year camping and only worked enough to fund himself for the rest of the year. He used Dr. Bronners for EVERYTHING. To bathe, for his hair, brushed his teeth with it, washed his dishes, everything. When camping he carried a small bottle of it and it took care of all his needs.