Dude, I never even thought to ask!

[kitchen_kink]

Apparently there's a reason why Dr. Bronner's Soap bottles have crazy unintelligible religious ravings on them. It's fascinating, actually.

I always thought they were just weird word salad stuff to make the hippie soap funnier. Funny is trendy, you know.

Comments

[pir.livejournal.com]

The first time I saw Dr. Bronner's packaging was a bit of culture shock for me... I always just assumed he was a fruitloop :)

[veek.livejournal.com]

Today's dose of surreal was brought to me by... you! :)

Fascinating.

[imvfd.livejournal.com]

Dilute! Dilute! Dilute!

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

I am stunned to find out the depths of non-infamy to which the good Dr. has sunk… I wonder, now that they're printing directly on the bottles, if you can still order a stack of labels for the reading joy… probably, though they're likely just the bar soap labels…

[cos]

Whoah! I always knew Dr. Bronner was real, and these ravings represented his views... but I had managed to completely fail to know that he's in Escondido, CA ... where I just was this weekend for the first time. I wish I'd known we were in the home of Dr. Bronner! Dr. Bronner actually died about ten years ago, but I just checked, and indeed the soap company is still in Escondido. I'd have visited it if I'd know. d'oh.

[dani-namaste.livejournal.com]

Actually, I met him and one of his sons (I think) at Expo East. He's about as crazy as he appears on the bottles. Fun, but crazy. Damn fine soapmaker, but crazy.

[dani-namaste.livejournal.com]

* jaw drops *

I'm sorry. Lemons and Vaseline? A) ew. B) Petroleum product - how does that fit in with his "eco" cred? C) Ew.

[dda.livejournal.com]

I remember reading a series of books called, "Big/Bigger/Biggest Secrets"; they were full of "the real recipe for Coca-Cola" type of stuff but one included a bit on Dr. Bronner, including an interview with the good Dr. Yup, he really believed what he wrote!

Star of stage and screen...

[rosiewoodboat.livejournal.com]

Well, screen anyway, the documentary film Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox is entirely worth seeing....
-Rosie

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

Dang.

I want to write crazed, hyphenated tirades of optimism too. Unfortunately, I'm too hung up on grammatical purity.

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

...but I still love the soap. I brought some with me to Europe and that kept me clean and tingly.

[paulpinecone.livejournal.com]

One! One! All One! Exceptions? None!

They also have posters you can buy.