It's an all-natural, multipurpose liquid cleanser. It's mild enough for everyday body washing, but strong enough for organic household cleaning!
A relaxing fragrance for tired and stressed-out souls lavender calms the nerves and soothes the body. Perfect just before bedtime or to start your day out with a tranquil peace of mind.
18 in 1 Uses! There are numerous uses for Dr. Bronner's Liquid Soaps. Each bottle lists the 18 distinct uses for the soap. Here are some:
- Use in the bath or shower for an invigorating bathing experience!
- Shampoo to leave your hair clean and your scalp tingly.
- Use for infants and the elderly as a mild cleanser for sponge baths.
- Tiny amount on your tooth brush to clean you teeth, or soak dentures.
- Use in the kitchen to clean and brighten the sink, bench tops and cabinets.
- Use to clean your toilets for sparking porcelain and a clean, fresh scent in your bathroom.
- Use on the laundry to remove dirt and other stains while having clean, fresh-smelling clothes.
- Use to mop your floors and leave a non-toxic refreshing scent throughout the entire house.
- Use as a repellent for your home and garden. Dilute 1:10 with water, put into a spray bottle and spray where ever ants and other insects are present.
- Use as a stain remover. Apply a small amount to stain, rub into a lather and rinse.
- Use as a pet shampoo
INGREDIENTS:
Water, Organic Coconut Oil*, Potassium Hydroxide**, Lavandin Extract, Organic Olive Oil*, Organic Hemp Oil, Organic Jojoba Oil, Organic Lavender Oil, Citric Acid, Tocopherol.
All oils and essential oils are certified organic to the National Organic Standards Program.
* CERTIFIED FAIR TRADE INGREDIENTS
** None remains after saponifying oils into soap and glycerin
Packaged in 100% post-consumer recycled plastic bottles.
MORE INFO (From Dr. Bronner):
Quality soap-making consists in great part of choosing the right proportions of the right oils with their different fatty acids. Most commercial soap manufacturers skimp on quality because of cost and use lots of tallow from beef fat with a little bit of coconut or palm kernel oil. Our unsurpassed soaps are made with olive, hemp and palm oils instead of tallow, and contain three to four times more coconut oil than commercial soaps. Saponified coconut oil generates high-lather cleansing even in hard water because it has shorter-chain saturated fatty acids. Hemp, olive and palm oil-based soaps make a mild, smooth, creamy lather because these oils contain longer-chain unsaturated and poly-unsaturated fatty acids.
FEATURES (From Dr. Bronner):
Unlike most commercial soap-makers who distil the glycerine out of their soaps to sell separately, we retain it in our soaps for its superb moisturizing qualities.
- We super fat our soaps with hemp and jojoba oils for a milder, smoother lather.
- We use natural plant-derived vitamin E and citric acid to protect freshness.
- We do not add any chelating agents, dyes, whiteners or synthetic fragrances.
- We use pure and powerful high-quality essential oils.
- Our liquid soaps are 3 to 4 times more concentrated than most so-called "liquid soaps" on the market, and are only a few percent away from being a solid, which ecologically saves on packaging materials.
- Our new plastic cylinder bottles are made from 100% post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic.
- Our soaps are a superb value, costing less than less-concentrated, inferior detergent body-wash "liquid soaps."
What does "Castile" mean? Is the bar soap also a castile soap like the liquid? What is the difference between the bar and liquid soaps?
In earlier centuries, an all-vegetable based soap was made in the Castile region of Spain from local olive oil. By the turn of this century, "Castile" had come to mean any vegetable oil-based soap, versus animal (tallow) fat-based soap. "Pure-Castile" is now also your guarantee that what you are using is a real ecological and simple soap, not a complex blend of detergents with a higher ecological impact due to the waste stream during manufacture and slower biodegradability. Unfortunately, many synthetic detergent blends are deceptively labeled as "Liquid Soap" even when they contain absolutely no soap whatsoever.
Both our bar and liquid soaps are pure-castile, as they are all vegetable oil-based. The bar soap wrappers prominently state that they, too, are pure-castile, like our liquid soaps. The difference between the liquid and bar soaps is that the liquid soaps use potassium hydroxide to saponify the vegetable oils, versus sodium hydroxide used to make the hard bar soaps.
DIRECTIONS:
For everyday body-washing: Get wet and pour soap full-strength onto hands-washcloth-loofah. Lather up, scrub down, rinse off, and tingle fresh & clean.
For other uses, dilute from one part soap into 40 parts water for light cleaning, to cutting it in half or using it full strength for heavy-duty grease-cutting jobs.
For shampoo, though we now recommend our new Shikakai soaps for this, many people are fond of using it as such. The method of application is to wet hair and scalp very thoroughly, squirt some soap into hands and work into a lather. Wash hair, then rinse well. Afterwards use the citrus hair conditioning rinse and/or leave-in conditioner as directed.
For the laundry, use 1/4 cup to 1/3 cup for one regular load; adjust as needed depending on hardness of water. I've been told that adding a dash of baking soda makes it even better.
For toothbrushing, apply a drop or two of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap to a wet toothbrush. Brush as you normally would, rinsing accordingly. Be careful about using more than a couple drops of soap, as you might start foaming at the mouth. Many people with sensitive or softer teeth like to use our soap as a toothpaste because it lacks abrasives
