Dilute! Dilute! All-One! OK!*

With all this talk about superbugs caused by overuse of antibiotic soap, and of baby soaps causing some sort of chick hormones in babies, I’ve decided to switch the family to exclusive Dr Bronners usage.

It’s the stuff we always use when I go camping with Iain, and now when I bathe the boys and get a whiff of peppermint I am immediately transported to the Teton Wilderness, where I hiked for 40 miles and cried for 40 miles and peed in the woods more times than I ever want to remember.

It also brings me back to the many weekends we’ve spent in a tent up at “the camp,” the family acreage in PA.

More peeing in the woods. Not so much crying, but then again I do nothing but sit around getting tan when we hang out at the camp. None of this hiking uphill both ways, fording an icy-cold river nonsense. Just bug-swatting.

Anyway, enough memory lane. Point? This stuff is good. Biodegradable, vegan, organic, all that good jazz. And all I had to do was dig it out of our camping supplies bin and stick it in the bathroom. Easy-peasy.

*You ever read a Doc Bronner bottle label? Like 20 square inches of 8 point font and many, many exclamation points. I love it. RIP, Doc.

February 20, 2008 | Filed Under baltimore

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10 Responses to “Dilute! Dilute! All-One! OK!*”

kelly on February 20th, 2008 9:20 pm

you are my inspiration. hiking always made me cry. just ask.
Bad Hippie on February 21st, 2008 7:19 am

Cool! Go over to the Sarcastic Journalist. She has, somewhere in the archives, a very cool “recipe” for shampoo made from Dr. Bronner’s.

We’re lucky enough to live in a hippie town, so that I can buy homemade soap and laundry stuff from the resident soap maker. Plus, we have an awesome buyer’s club/food co-op that I can order alternative health/beauty stuff from. The upshot is that we smell totally like patchouli all the time, and the 14 year old DOES NOT SMELL LIKE TAG BODY SPRAY.

Thank goddess for small favors.
Marcelle on February 21st, 2008 10:32 am

What’s not to love about this soap (fair trade! organic! nice-smelling!)? Only problem: The Mr likes Peppermint and I like the Almond. Compromise, compromise.
Matt on February 21st, 2008 12:29 pm

hippie! back in the dotcom era, we had the world’s loosest dress code:

no shoes? ok, unless you’re meeting a client, then sandals.
no shirt? if you can pull it off and still get work done.
shorts to work? duh.

we only had one rule.

absolutely no patchouli. ever.
christina on February 22nd, 2008 10:44 am

I too love Dr. Bronners for both myself and our 15 month old son. The only downside is that it DOES sting the eyes-so be careful when using it as a shampoo for the little ones!
Matt on February 22nd, 2008 1:05 pm

okay, okay…can i purchase this magic substance at, say, Trader Joe’s?
supa on February 22nd, 2008 7:44 pm

thanks for the tips, christina and bad hippie. and kelly, i sense a story begging to be told.

ha. matt’s a hippie convert. and yes, you can get it at TJ’s.

Tonight was bath night and both my kids smell minty fresh.
Tina C, on February 23rd, 2008 2:17 pm

along those lines, i bought some of a new product they make called sal suds, or something like that, which is good for cleaning anything in your house and it isn’t ammonia or other harsh stuff.
gwendomama on February 25th, 2008 12:20 pm

i love the crying for 40 miles part. i feel your pain.
where in PA is that? i am from a part of PA in which many people have ‘the camps’. near a certain national forest.
Kim on February 26th, 2008 1:00 pm

Did you know there’s a documentary about Dr. Bronner’s? http://www.magicsoapbox.com/doc/