Dr. Bronner's Pure-Castile Liquid Soap - Peppermint 32oz

At the beginning of 2013, I decided I was going to clean up my act and start going natural. After looking up multiple soaps on GoodGuide.com, I found this gem on the site and was intrigued. 18 uses in one, for a cheap price? Can't be true! Oh, yes it can be. After seeing how highly rated it was on GoodGuide, I checked it out on Amazon and the same thing, great ratings. I looked at the reviews and after spending about 30 minutes reading all the things you can do with it, I decided to buy. I ended up buying the Peppermint soap because it was offered Prime and I love it! It smells so fresh and wonderful. I have only personally used this product for shampoo, body wash, and as a hand soap but there are so many other uses for it and I'm excited to use it for everything! My boyfriend has started using it as a shampoo and we both use it as a body wash. I just diluted it (1 part soap to 10 parts water) and it works like a charm. It smells wonderful when it first comes out but the smell doesn't linger after you're done and out of the shower. It does not "sud" like a normal shampoo or body wash would but that's a good thing; it means it is natural and doesn't have chemicals to make it do so! I am hooked on this soap and can't wait to find out what else I can use it for. Because you dilute this product with water it makes it that much more affordable. And, like I've already said, you can read reviews to find out what else you can use it for so it is versatile as well. I have a feeling this bottle will last me a very long time and I look forward to purchasing more; maybe in different scents. Great product and I would HIGHLY recommend to anyone.

This is my favorite shower soap. Dr. Bronner's is, for all intents and purposes, a coconut oil soap which hasn't been skimmed off the glycerin which separates during the soapmaking process. As a coconut oil soap, it produces a very light foamy lather which cleans and rinses very easily with no residue. But unlike some coconut oil soaps, the retained glycerin in Dr. Bronner's leaves your skin feeling soft and hydrated rather than dry and tight. There are other oils in Dr. Bronner's, but not in quantities that really matter. I'm a big fan of hemp products, but there doesn't seem to be any particular reason to use hemp oil in soaps. For soapmaking, chain length is the key variable for how different fatty acids perform, not the particular double-bond locations which make the essential fatty acids in hemp oil so nutritious in foods. Coconut oil features shorter chain lengths than most other oils, and that's what makes it perform differently in soaps than longer chain fatty acids like stearic acid (which makes a denser creamier lather). Some people claim that this is a great multi-purpose soap. I disagree. This soap is a great body wash. But it just doesn't have the properties that characterize a good shampoo or shave soap (for my fellow wetshavers out there). This soap will dry out your scalp if you use it as a shampoo, and the very light airy lather is pretty terrible for shaving. However, it works well as a pre-shave soap to wash and rinse with hot water before shaving. I've only used the peppermint fragrance. It's great in the morning or after a workout. Very invigorating. As a man, I find it an appropriately masculine scent, and the cooling sensation is nice on the, um, male area of the body.

I may be addicted to all things Dr. Bronner's. In a world with too many chemicals in everything, this soap really makes it easy to avoid all of the bad stuff. It is a very versatile and effective soap that can be used for practically everything. Love it!

I didn't see many reviews talking at length about using this as a shampoo, so I thought I would add one. Expect my personal experiences and opinion, identified as such, mixed in. I use this soap for shampoo, body wash, face wash, I put it in my bath, I've used it to clean my counters, I've used it to clean dishes. The peppermint is my favorite, especially for soaking in the bath because it tingles and it's the best scented in my opinion, also for shampoo, again because it tingles. To clean, I put a little on a damp terry cleaning cloth or kitchen towel and just wipe. I use it on kitchen and bathroom counters, and I dissolve it in water to mop with. I prefer to use the tea tree for cleaning. As a shampoo, I am puzzled by all the claims I had heard online about castile soap/saponified oil being drying to the hair, and I suspect that many of the people making those claims either haven't tried it and are just perpetuating the general misconception, or maybe they are using it wrong (I'll explain why I think that). This is an extremely gentle product. I have CURLY hair, and it is dyed(with one of those clairol nice n easy super harsh store bought dyes)(#124 natural blue black, if you want to know). Curly hair is generally more dry, and harder to keep conditioned, than straight hair, and mine is no exception. My hair is super fine and super dry, and prone to breakage. I find using this soap as shampoo is actually much LESS drying to my hair than other types of shampoo. If you are going to use this as a shampoo, you have to keep a couple of things in mind; -1. Use less than you think you need. Less than what you would use if you were using a normal shampoo. You are not going to get as rich of a lather with this soap. That doesn't mean it doesn't clean as well, and it doesn't mean you didn't use enough soap. A little known fact is that the ingredients that clean your hair in normal shampoos don't lather either. Shampoo manufacturers ADD lathering agents purely for consumer impression. You get the impression as you are washing your hair that you are getting your hair really super clean because you are getting a nice thick rich lather, but in reality, the lather is not what is doing the cleaning, and to a small degree, lathering agents actually prevent detergent agents from working as well as they otherwise would. That's why, in industrial cleaning supplies(not the ones you can find in walmart) they typically don't add lathering agents. Normal shampoos have harsher detergent agents than this soap because of that effect, and because of the types of ingredients in normal conditioners(read on). -2. Lather, rinse, THEN REPEAT. Shampoo twice, even if you are unaccustomed to doing that with normal shampoos. -3. RINSE REALLY REALLY WELL. After you have rinsed your hair and the soap is all out of it; rinse it all over again. -4. Don't use a 'normal' conditioner, pick one without any heavy 'cones' in it. Most conditioners have ingredients whose last four letters end in c-o-n-e (like silicone, amodimethicone, cyclomethicone, etc.). Not all, but many, of these ingredients coat your hair and supposedly make it seem incredibly silky and shiny and beautiful and glorious and on and on (and cone leave-ins really give you this effect), but what they also do is keep the natural oils, from your scalp, and any other moisturizing products you may use, from actually getting into your hair, so you get on this cycle of stripping your hair with a normal shampoo, then coating your hair with a normal conditioner, then stripping then coating then stripping, etc., and your hair is getting drier and drier. Not all cones do this. There are lighter ones and ones that are water soluble that are not doing anything bad, and it's up to you to use cones or not, but...IF YOU ARE USING THIS SOAP FOR SHAMPOO...then I would recommend staying away from it altogether. The harsh detergents in normal shampoos can handle stripping the normal conditioners from your hair with one washing, but this shampoo is much gentler and probably won't. This is what I think people are doing wrong when they think this hair is drying their hair out. I don't know, maybe they are worried it might, so they get what they think is going to be a really good conditioner, but it's a 'normal' conditioner, and as a result they aren't giving this soap an honest chance. They think it's this shampoo, but it's really their conditioner, that is causing their hair to be dry. There are a ton of really good conditioners that don't have cones in them. Dr. Bronner's makes a conditioner, but it's pricey. The thing that makes this soap a great product is partly that it is almost immortal. (My last 16 ounce bottle of the peppermint lasted me 8 years. Admittedly, that was before I tried it as a shampoo, but that would've maybe shaved a couple years, at most, off of the 8.) The Dr. Bronner's conditioner will not last as long, and there are better ones that are cheaper. If you google 'Paula's Choice', you can find a website of the same name that has an outstanding ingredient list, so you can see what the good ingredients are, and there are tons of websites listing cone free conditioners. (Personally, I don't use a conditioner, I wash my hair and then when I am out of the shower I massage a nickel sized amount of light or extra virgin olive oil into my hair. Yes, I actually do that. It doesn't make my hair oily, it just soaks right in. I've been doing that for a very long time, even when I was still using normal shampoo, and It has never made my hair feel oily. On days when I don't shampoo which is about 6 days out of 7, I just rinse my hair in the shower and if my hair seems dry when I get out, I will add a tiny amount more. This doesn't weigh my hair down either, like I said, my hair is curly and it still pops up in spontaneous ringlets) (I get my olive oil in a gigantic bottle from walmart that costs me all of around $1.62.) -5. You don't need to wash your hair every day. That's not really about this particular shampoo, just in general. If you don't believe me, ask your stylist. Just, when you take a shower, rinse it and condition it, if you choose to use a conditioner. As I stated above, I really only wash mine once a week. Trust me; nobody will be able to tell. A little note about the different scents I've tried; Peppermint smells heavenly but has a noticeable tingle, that's good if you like and want it, bad if you don't. Lavender is my second favorite, it's a strong lavender scent. I mean it, this is not lavender for the weak of heart, this is not 'glade plug ins lavender fairy-farts', this is not a freaking fabric softener with a baby teddy bear on the label, this is hardcore hippie tree hugger lavender (love for the hippie tree huggers). If you've never smelled lavender the actual herb, and you've only ever smelled lavender scented products (even the organic ones, because, of the ones I've tried, the organic products that are lavender scented are still not as strong as this one), then you might possibly want to buy the 4 ounce size first to try. I like the little 4 ounce bottle anyway because I can refill it from the big bottles and use it on trips, so then you'll have the bottle. Tea Tree is strong too, if you like tea tree (I do, I liked this one) you'll really love it, if you don't like tea tree you'll REALLY hate it it, if you aren't sure if you like it, then you should definitely buy the tiny bottle first and try it, you don't want to be stuck with a product that lasts as long as this one does if you don't like it. Tea Tree also seems to me to have a very light tingle to it. Lastly, Rose. ROSE. UGH. I read online and thought people who didn't like this scent didn't know what they were talking about about this scent being so bad, and I bought it anyway because I trust this company and I was a moron to do it. Really, honestly, trust me, it smells nothing like a rose, or even remotely floral, it smells like what I imagine rancid gummy bears might smell like if it were possible for gummy bears to rot, and it is so sickeningly strong and so sweet smelling that when you smell it it makes your teeth hurt. I use mine to clean my bathroom and pray longingly for the day when I'll run out of it. ***EDITED TO ADD*** Since posting this review, I wanted to add a couple more bits of info. Firstly, this monster has taken on a life of it's own, and people are adding, in the comments, all sorts of fantastic tips of their own about hair care, so make sure you check them out. It's some great stuff. Second, Olive Oil. Quite a while ago, I added a comment to this review including, among other things, clarifying some thing you need to know when considering using olive oil on your hair, and I wanted to paste that here. Uh...so...here it is. encased in the []; [There are different types of olive oil. Extra virgin olive oil is the opposite of extra light olive oil. Evoo is mucch heavier and thicker. I think its fattier. You can tell how heavy an olive oil is by its color, EVOO is green and extra light olive oil is clear. The 'spectrum', getting lighter in thickness/weight and lighter in color from green to clear is; EVOO, virgin olive oil, pure olive oil, light olive oil, extra light olive oil. If you want to try olive oil, maybe start at pure olive oil and move up or down, depending on how dry/oily or thick/fine your hair is. What you dont use, you can always cook with!] Lastly, I was in the process of using up a bottle of bronner's when I initially wrote this review. Since then, I used that bottle up, and went to the store intending to buy a replacement bottle of lavender. Well, they were out. They did have peppermint, which I bought a bottle of, and they also had the lavender in bar form. I got experimental one day in the bath, and used the bar form to wash my hair. FANTASTIC. Lathers great, cleans great, smells great. The one aspect of using the bar to wash your hair that I liked the most was this; when you use the liquid, it's difficult to control how much goes into your hand. If you are using too much of the liquid, then it becomes hard to 'control' in your hand. What I am saying is, you pour the correct amount into your hand, and then you rub your hands together rapidly to emulsify it, and then you apply it to your hair and wash away. If you've put too much into your hand, then you lose some of it when you're rubbing your hands together. PHEW! My gosh that was hard to explain. My POINT...finally...is that the bar eliminates this problem completely, so if you're a fan of the liquid, give the bar a try too, I like them both equally. ***EDITED TO ADD*** HELLO EVERYBODY!!! Yes, I'm still around, I still have hair, and this monster review is still making the rounds. Just wanted to add an update. My hair is still corkscrew curly, that's its natural state, if anything it is more curly. It is no longer dyed black, that's because I've started to go pretty grey up there, and it looks cool that way so I leave it, i don't dye it anymore. What HAS changed is that I no longer use olive oil on my hair, I now use coconut oil, and I only use it every other day. I do this because for one I like the scent a little better, but also because coconut oil is solid at room temperature, which means that instead of pouring liquid olive oil into your hand and juggling with that, you just take like a butter knife and get some solid olive oil out of a jar. What I do is put like a nickel sized lump of coconut oil in my palm and then rub my hands together briskly to liquefy it, it just melts, and rub it through my hair. Keep posting your tips! I know people are loving to read them and try them out for themselves.

Dr. Bronner’s Pure Castile Liquid Soap in Rose is one of those little bottles that somehow earns permanent space in your bag. It smells like actual roses, not fake perfume roses, and the scent is light without being overpowering. The 2 ounce size is perfect for travel, gym bags, or testing it out before committing to a big bottle. And if you know Dr. Bronner’s, you know it is not just hand soap. You can use it for body wash, shaving, even laundry in a pinch. It lathers well, feels clean without stripping your skin, and a little goes a long way. For something so small, it pulls a lot of weight.

I started using this soap years ago as a body wash. You do not need much as all, so it lasts for a long time! I have a little pump bottle in my shower that always has the lavender scent in it. In the last 3 months, I have tried many different versions/recipes to use it as a shampoo (including rinsing afterwards with an apple cider vinegar rinse and diluting it significantly with both water and coconut milk) and it just didn't work for me. My hair was all ratty and knotted, which isn't usually a huge problem, and it felt pretty dry and brittle. But that doesn't make me love it any less! TIP! When using this as a body wash, I don't love how thin the consistency is because I feel that I use more than I actually need. So what I have begun to do is thicken it at home! I simply use magnesium chloride flakes (which you can find here on Amazon, and which I choose to use because I can always use more magnesium in my system, as I don't get enough from my diet most of the time) diluted in water. You could also just use table salt! I take 1 TBSP of the magnesium chloride flakes (or table salt) and put it in about 1 cup of water and stir it until it is thoroughly dissolved. Then, I add the saltwater mixture about 1/2 tsp as a time to about 1 cup of castile soap. Be sure to add just a little bit at a time and stir the soap thoroughly between each addition of the saltwater or it will "break" the soap and won't have a uniform consistency. I usually use between 2/3 and 3/4 of a cup of the saltwater to get to my desired consistency. It's a thicker, white, lotion-like soap instead of a thin, tan-ish water-like soap. It's not as creamy as a synthetic lotion would be, but I really like it and it doesn't take too much time and saves the amount of soap I use as a body wash over time!

I think people who buy this soap fall mostly into two categories: 1) Minimalist and want to simplify things around the house or 2) Loves organic/natural everything and is excited about making their own soap mixes for a wide variety of uses. I fall squarely into the first category, and part of my initial disappointment about this product was due to the marketing towards the second segment. The reason I bought was essentially to have one soap to rule them all! I can use it as face/body wash, shampoo, hand soap, and in a pinch laundry while I'm traveling and maybe even toothpaste if I'm desperate. The traveling part is also important for me since I frequently go on trips that are 3-4 weeks long. The initial disappointment was when looking up recipes for just about anything, many included things like add vinegar or other essential oils. To me, I bought this soap so I DIDN'T have to do those things. Here's what I've tested so far and what I think about it: 1) Shampoo - as others have mentioned, it left a slight film on my hair after the first usage. I knew to look for it, my wife confirmed it, but I just focused on washing it out better the next time and it's worked great ever since. I have very short hair which I think makes this possible, but it cleans great and I love the peppermint smell. 2) Face wash - The first time I used this, my wife pointed out in bed that my face dryness/dandruff was back. Uh oh I thought, dry skin that I haven't had in months? This is probably a deal breaker. However, I decided I'd just try it for a week and see what happens and luckily after that first time it hasn't come back. I do dilute it a bit more, and I probably wash it off a little faster than I did that first time, but now I don't have any dryness issues. 3) Body wash - does it make parts of my body tingle intensely and a weird way? Yes. Does that mean I'll stop using it as body wash? Not at all. It's a weird kind of coldness, but you get used to it. I've learned not to leave it on my private parts for a long time, it's pretty much soap and rinse. 4) Hand soap - I love this as hands soap. I used to get relatively clammy hands, and I think this soap has all but cured that. I like the drying aspect of it, but more than anything I just kind of feel like after using it for awhile my skin reached a nice balance. I bought 4 pump bottles and now use it everywhere. Overall I like the soap. There's something about the great peppermint smell that I just can't get enough of. At the same time, it's more work and thought that I would have guessed in the beginning. The foam dispensers make it easier to dispense in the shower and for hand soap, and that has worked well and helps with the annoyance of trying to use this bottle. I'll try it traveling in a few months, but as many people have said about using it for laundry, you should probably put vinegar in the rinse cycle to get the film off of it. So instead of saving the convenience of traveling with my soap, I'll still have to go to the store to buy some vinegar? Defeats the purpose. I'll update as I try more things. If you find this review helpful, please let me know by clicking the helpful button!

This will be a long review but I think its necessary. It's also very divided. It worked good for general cleaning, not necessarily heavy stuff though. And I loved it on my skin. I didn't try it as a toothpaste, maybe i will one desperate day lol. It helped as a deodorant and killed fleas on my dog. It's rated as a 4 only because I didn't like it as a shampoo. I've read tons of reviews on how people just love it as a shampoo, and complain that people that don't like it didn't give it enough time (they advise at least a week). Well I gave it a week and am now giving it up. I've read you're not supposed to wash your hair every day, especially with a real soap, so that is why I only used it every other day or so. Here is my story: DAY ONE- 1st I should note my hair is shoulder length, fine but fairly thick, & bleached blonde with light reddish brown lowlights. Received Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Soap & Shikakai Conditioning Rinse. 9pm washed hair with soap full strenth, probably used 1/4 cup, and poured 2-3 tbsp on rag to wash body & face. Smells awesome but loses lather fairly quick. Common sense, but avoid eyes! It dripped in mine a little & burned (yes they were closed tight) but I wouldn't expect any different it IS a soap after all. And any astringent type face treatment does that. Body felt SOOO crisply clean, with a cool tingly feeling. Super cold when you get out of the shower btw lol. Hair felt icky but I had read to expect that, and that the conditioning rinse helped. Mixed 2 caps of rinse with 1 cup of water, per instructions & poured into hair, rubbing in best I could & rinsed out. Result: Yuck! Hair felt waxy, grungy, sticky, took forever to comb out (literally OUT) & you could see the buildup on the comb. Dried gross too. Decided maybe I should have diluted the soap on my hair as instructions suggest (after I finally found the instructions on the bottle amidst the 3000 other words lol) My face looked a few years younger though, very smooth, pretty complexion. Skin wasn't dry at all. Fiance loved it on his skin too, and his hair felt fine. DAY TWO- hair still feels nasty all day. Researched internet & found that shampoos coat your hair with bad stuff & Bronners soap strips all that away, leaving your hair in its natural state (no wonder mine felt so damaged, I thought). Soaps are alkaline so the acidic rinse (vinegar, citrus rinse, etc) is supposed to balance it out and seals the cuticle back for protection and softness. Suggested a natural deep conditioning to revitalize the hair. 3pm-applied conditioning mix to hair (2 eggs, 1/3 c coconut oil, 2T olive oil) rubbed in really good & let sit 3 hours. Loved the way my skin felt after applying it (since a lot dripped & ran down my body) & decided to start using diluted coconut oil rinse on body in shower. 6pm- rinsed mixture out with water only & mixed shikakai rinse (3/4 cap to 1 cup water this time) & let sit a couple minutes then rinsed out. Hair still felt a little sticky but not near as bad. Hair dried WAY better but became a little greasy at roots (prob because of oil conditioning), but it felt a lot better than yesterday, not such a build-up feeling. DAY THREE- Put hair in ponytail & avoided all mirrors. DAY FOUR- Have to go to town so ponytail it is. Planning to avoid mirrors again. Ordered Dr. Bronner's lavender & coconut leave in cream, supposed to add softness to hair. 10pm- showered. diluted 1-2T Bronners Soap to 16 oz warm water & washed hair, that old familiar waxy build-up feeling came right back. Rinsed with 3/4 cap Shikakai to 1 cup water. Dried ALMOST as bad as the first night. Ready to give this up as a shampoo! Still love it as body wash though :) Maybe it's still not diluted enough, some people say only a few drops... DAY 5- 11:30am- cant handle this hair another minute! Hopped in shower, washed hair with water only & rinsed with Apple Cider Vinegar Rinse (ACV rinse) 1/2 cup ACV to 1.5 cups water. Hair feels amazing while drying, but stinks to high heaven, but I don't like vinegar smells. This could work except they only advice ACV rinses once a week. Had a little body to it once dried but kinda greasy lookin again. This is gettin old. Tryin hard to stick with it! DAY 6- 9:30am- at a hotel so just washed with water to avoid using standard shampoo & risking everything I've suffered for. My hair stinks!! I would rather just use a natural shampoo/cond with a few not-so-good things in it than this all the time. It did actually look good after drying, surprisingly, probably better if I'd had a straightener. Put hair up halfway through the day cause it stinks n I'm driving. Creme was delivered when I got home. DAY 7- Giving Bronners soap one more chance as a shampoo. This makes a week. 10am- washed hair with soap, 1 tsp to 16 oz water. Rinsed with 1/2 cap Shikakai to 1 cup water. Used 1 pump of creme and smoothed through hair. It helped with the tangles a little, but build up is still visible on the hairs on the comb that have been pulled out. Dried with that same waxy feeling. Bought Renpure Organics shampoo & conditioner at HEB later (Color safe, No sulfates, parabens, dyes, gluten, phthalates, propylene glycol). DAY 8- Shampood & conditioned with Renpure, used 1/2 pump of creme. Perfection :) Conclusion- Maybe it didn't work because my hair is bleached, if your hair isn't bleached or if you're a guy with short hair this could very possibly work for you. It stripped my lowlights of their color, maybe not necessarily the soap but something in the process did :( I'm looking at the positive side though and deciding that maybe all the toxic build-up from regular shampoo & conditioners is all stripped away now, and I can use the organic brand to maintain healthy hair. I would still highly recommend it for your BODY & FACE, obviously dilute it (a few drops on a wet rag is diluted enough) I even SHAVED with it but you have to use a lot to keep a lather going. I don't use "real" deodorant, I use the Thai Crystal mineral stuff, and it works ok but I noticed it seemed to work a lot more this week, I'm giving credit to this soap which does say it works as a DEODORANT. I bathed my dog in it one day and a few fleas fell off and I found a dead tick on her later, so I will definitely continue to use it as a DOG SHAMPOO, just not as mine. Sorry it was long but I hope it was helpful.

Compré la botella de 946 ml de Lavanda, al abrir la botella por primera vez creí que había cometido un gran error al comprar una presentación tan grande ya que el primer olor que percibí fue como el del jabón "Zote", pero en menos de una semana me di cuenta que no es así y que este jabón es uno de los mejores productos que he comprado. La espuma que hace, la sensación al utilizarlo, el aroma que deja y los cambios que he notado en la piel desde que lo uso me hacen decir que es lo mejor de lo mejor. Poco más de dos meses me duró esa botella y ayer adquirí una nueva del mismo tamaño, pero de Menta. Puedo decir que tengo cero comentarios negativos de este producto, es un poco caro, pero vale cada peso y en definitiva lo recomiendo. Ojalá en Amazon se comercializaran todos los demás aromas de este jabón y también los jabones de azúcar de esta marca.

Oh, it's good!! I'm using it as a cleaner rather than a body soap. It cuts through grease and kitchen gunk so well. I have a dog and the weather is awful - this cleans the floor like a boss. I did have to take a couple of attempts to get the dilution right for the wooden floors. It leaves a residue otherwise which means a second wash with plain water. Gentle enough for the walls too. The bottle will last ages and smells great!

Excellent savon multi-usages avec un parfum de menthe rafraîchissant ! Il laisse une sensation de propreté et est doux pour la peau. Très concentré, donc économique. Un incontournable !

Ses qualités sont indéniables (alors qu'ils s'agit d'un produit BIO) il mousse extrêmement bien (peu de produit est nécessaire), il est doux pour la peau et l'odeur est agréable tout en étant discrète. Par contre, je ne trouve pas qu'il s'agisse d'un bon rapport qualité-prix. Je ne rachèterai donc pas

Item came with damaged cap as shown in picture. There was no bubble wrap for protection at all.