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The 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.
I have had a 4 ounce bottle last me 5 months of near daily showers. You should use max 3-4 drops for your whole body
“For everyday bodywashing: Get wet and pour soap full-strength onto hands-washcloth-loofah. Lather up, scrub down, rinse off, and tingle fresh & clean!”
We take Dr. Bronner's when we go camping. Wash up in a nice mountain lake without worrying about hurting the environment.
Love 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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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 Holo…
Near 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.
I once met someone who wrote a song about the tingly effect (probably not the only one...).
Since I am commenting late I'll mention here that I suspect the main reason for the current popularity in the US is that it became a universal feature of health food stores and co-ops before they were all that popular. When Whole Foods took health food stores mainstream they sold it and when supermarkets responded with natural products departments they started selling it too. So now it is not only a good quality soap with a relatively short ingredient list but very widely available.
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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 can't really say how well it works; my teeth are in bad shape but that is presumably because I love sugar and vinegar. I think dentists would tend to recommend baking soda as the simple inexpensive toothpaste alternative, however at least one study someone mentioned here not too long ago found that using toothpaste vs water doesn't seem to make much difference. I've heard some theorizing about abrasive vs. non abrasive toothpaste but I haven't looked if there are any studies on that question.
The 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.
Holy cow, that’s quick. I use 32 ounces and it lasts about 4-6 months of daily showers. Were you diluting it? How did you use over two ounces of concentrated liquid soap every day? You must have been really fresh and tingly.
“For everyday bodywashing: Get wet and pour soap full-strength onto hands-washcloth-loofah. Lather up, scrub down, rinse off, and tingle fresh & clean!”
Dr. Bronner's grandson David Bronner is not only CEO (Cosmic Engagement Officer) of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, but also also a big contributor to and on the board of directors of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). https://maps.org/about/board >David Bronner is President of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps. He is a grandson of company founder, Emanuel Bronner, and a fifth-generation soapmaker.…
I 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…
Dr. Bronner himself is a quintessentially American figure though. An immigrant fleeing Europe, he became a prophet of his own bizarre religious movement, and was persecuted by the authorities and fled West, where he became a wealthy California entrepreneur. All three of those are archetypal American stories.