We always used to get a little freaked out by the text on the bottles of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, but we continued to buy them because they're such good products.
The soaps are all vegetable oil-based, and are made with organic oils. The label claims there are 18 uses for the soaps, including body wash, shampoo, shaving, pet wash, laundry, toothbrushing, and light cleaning. We've actually only used our Lavender Organic Liquid Soap for light cleaning, dishwashing, and washing clothing by hand, and recently realized how silly we are not to have tried any of the other uses.
To make you feel even better about buying the Magic Soaps, Dr. Bronner's also supports and encourages sustainable agriculture, farm worker health, and ecological processing methods. They don't do any animal testing, and their bottles are made from 100% post-consumer recycled PET plastic and soap wrappers from post-consumer recycled paper and hempflax.
Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps come in Almond, Eucalyptus, Lavender, Peppermint, Tea Tree, and Baby Mild. They're available in sizes ranging from 2 ounces ($1.99) to 1 gallon ($44.99). Because they're concentrated, they last a long time. We buy ours at Whole Foods because Trader Joe's only sells Peppermint. You can also buy them online.
(Oh, and the website gives additional information about the more than 30,000 words spread across all the soap labels.)
Apparently, I have nothing to do at work so I'm posting....
I haven't used Dr. Bronner's although I might. I've been using Mrs. Meyers. I absolutely love the scents, especially the gardenia. Does anyone have an opinion on which is the better cleaner?
Just don't use it for the kids' bubble baths!! No surfactants equals no bubbles... but it sure makes them smell awful clean!
For housecleaning, Mrs. Meyers is the better cleaner, by far.
Does anybody know if these products would be safe for a walnut veneer?
Gracias.
I can't say that I have used DB for us on woods, but I do use it has a body wash & (sometimes) shampoo - I would never use anything else.
That peppermint soap feels icy cold on a hot summer day. If you wash your hair with it, you'd better rinse with vinegar or it won't all rinse out and your hair will be dull.
This is the ((((BEST)))) soap I've ever used period. If I'm outdoors in the middle of the day I wear sunblock. This soap is the only stuff that thoroughly removes sunblock w/out having wash twice, etc. There's also no weird/bizarre moisterizers, & perfumes in the stuff. Trader Joe's repackages the liquid stuff w/their own label. Great stuff.
I can't imagine using anything else.
I think of Dr. Bronner's as primarily a personal soap (rather than a household soap), but TBH, I've always found it very drying.
It's fine as a lingerie wash, esp in lavender, but so is Seventh Generation's lavender dish soap -- which is much cheaper.
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