Product Review: Dr. Bronner’s Pure-Castile Soap
By Wesley Joseph • May 10th, 2008 • Category: Household
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Product Reviewed: Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps: 18-in-1 Hemp Unscented Baby-Mild Pure Castile Soap Made with Organic Oils
Place of Purchase: Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, others
Purchase Price: $8-$12, depending upon sales for 32 Fl. Oz. Or, about $14.50 at Dr.Bronner.com
Product replaced: Variety of all-purpose detergents, especially Pine-Sol, which I previously used on floors
Ingredients: Water, Saponified Organic Coconut* & Organic Olive* Oils (w/ Retained Glycerin), Organic Hemp Oil, Organic Jojoba Oil, Citric Acid, Vitamin E
* Certified Fair Trade Ingredients
Use: Good, mild detergent for use when you’re scrubbing floors, wiping surfaces, etc. Use for most cleaning applications. Actually, it’s labeled, “no detergents,” let’s call it like they do: it’s soap!
Can also be used to clean one’s body and face.
Results: Dr. Bronner’s Pure-Castile Soap is great for basic cleaning. It won’t likely clean the worst grime you encounter, but if you’re trying to do some basic cleaning, this is an organic, certified free-trade, vegan soap that will allow you to clean without harming your hands and with reduced negative envirohuman impact.
The non-toxic nature of this product’s ingredients is great for most of your housecleaning needs, but you may need something with better grit for items needing tough scrubbing.
For your weekly cleaning, this soap works great with hot water and a little elbow grease.
I have not yet tried it on my skin, as my skin is sensitive to soap changes, and I have it in a pretty good balance right now. Will likely try down the road.
Best of all: All the small print labeling on this bottle. Some of it is interesting, some quirky, some helpful hints.
Why try it? It’s clearly greener than 99% of all soaps on the market and does some great cleaning stunts. It won’t clean everything, but you could try it on anything!
The drawback: Clearly, the soap is mild, which is great for most of our applications, but for the greasy encounter, you are likely to need something a bit stronger.
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Wesley Joseph is the primary editor for EHI. He comes from a strong political science background and is interested in the effect humans' actions have on the environment, how in turn the environment affects humans, and how environmental policy at large and personal actions can both change into positive envirohuman impacts.
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