Dr. Bronner's – Pure-Castile Liquid Soap (Baby Unscented, 8 Ounce) – Made with Organic Oils, 18-in-1 Uses: Face, Hair, Laundry, Dishes, For Sensitive Skin, Babies, No Added Fragrance, Vegan, Non-GMO

Smells great, doesn’t dry out my skin and a little goes a long way.

This is a great wonderful product, that agrees with sensitive skin. It makes a good lather and does not have a strong smell. It lasts me a long time! I highly recommend it!

Dr. Bronner’s SUPERMILD 18-in-1
Contains: Potassium solution, Coconut-Jojoba-Olive Oils.
No Perfume – 100% Pure
Pure Castile Soap
No Detergents
No Synthetics! None!
100% Biodegradable!

1. Always dilute for Shave-Shampoo-Massage-Dental-Soap Bath!
2. The mildest plain pure Baby Castile Soap made!
3. 1% & 99% hot water = facial pack, shampoo, hair conditioner!
4. A dash in glass water = breath freshening pure soap.
5. For massage, dilute 1 part in 10 parts hot water! Not oil!
6. Supermild soap like a lotion for the most delicate skin.
7. Dilute with hot water to clean & freshen from head to toe!
8. Supermild oil soap for Dispensers – Uniforms – Baby – Beach!
9. 3 dashes in water rinse most Sprays OFF Fruits & Vegetables!
10. Synthetics make suds good, but 100% natural soap is better!
HEALTH IS OUR GREATEST WEALTH, "K" (C) 1973 "ALL-ONE"
DON’T DRINK SOAP! KEEP OUT OF EYE! DILUTE! DILUTE! OK!

Guaranteed since 1948 by Einstein-Hellbronner ALL-ONE-GOD-FAITH, INC.
Dr. Emmanuel H. Bronner Associates, SMMC, Soapmaker Master Chemist & Essene
Rabbi
Escondido, Box 28, Cal. 92033
Made in USA
4 oz:36 8 oz:24 16 oz:12 32 oz:12 1/2 Gal:8 Gal:4

Also on the main part of the label, but set off to the side:
Enjoy only 2 cosmetics, enough sleep & Dr. Bronner’s ‘Magic Soap’ to clean
body-mind-soul-spirit instantly uniting One! All-One! Absolute cleanliness
is Godliness! For facial packs, scalp & soothing body rub, add dash on bath
towel in sink of hot water. Wring out. Lay over face & scalp. Massage with
fingertips. Repeat 3 or 4 times ’til arms, Legs & all are rubbed, always
towards the heart. Rinse towel in plain hot water and massage again.
Breathe deeply! Health is Wealth. Within 9 minutes you feel fresh,
mint-clean, saving 90% of your hot water & soap, ready to teach the whole
Human race the Moral ABC of All-One-God-Faith! For we’re All-One or none!
ALL-ONE! ALL-ONE! ALL-ONE!

HEALTHY HUNZA-TYPE FOOD

Try Dr. Bronner’s Calcium Malt, Balanced Mineral Seasoning, Mineral
Bouillon, Corn Sesame, Sal Suds & Bar Soaps

And then, to finish off the main part of the label, this text appears
sideways:
TO SIMPLIFY & ENJOY LIFE MORE, DILUTE 1/2 OZ. OR 2 SQUIRTS OF THIS PURE
CASTILE SOAP WITH 2 GALLONS OR SINKFUL HOT WATER, THEN TOWEL MASSAGE A
FACIAL PACK, THEN WRING TOWEL OUT & FINGERTIP MASSAGE YOUR HAIR & SCALP.
ENJOY THE CREAMY EMOLLIENT LATHER ON BABY, BATH, BEACH, BODY, DENTURES,
MINT DEODORANT, SHAVING, MOUTHWASH-SILK-WOOL-PETS-DIAPERS-CAR-HAND & FOOT
SOAP.

pH8 = Mildest soap Made! God – made Eggwhite pH9

Athletes Foot: Soap, Dry, Apply Dry. OK!

100% CRUELTY-FREE

DILUTE: ENJOY 1 SOAP for 18 DIFFERENT USES! GUARANTEED NO SYNTHETIC
PEPPERMINT OILS & 100% VEGETARIAN. SUPERMILD CASTILE HAS OUTSTANDING WATER
SOFTENING & CLEANSING POWERS. PREFERABLE TO HARSH SOAP & DEFATTENING
SYNTHETICS. IT DOES NOT CUT DIRT, BUT DISSOLVES IT. IT IS THE MILDEST, MOST
PLEASANT SOAP YOU EVER USED OR MONEY BACK! ENJOY BODY RUB TO STIMULATE BODY
MIND-SOUL-SPIRIT AND TEACH THE ESSENE MORAL ABC UNITING ALL FREE IN THE
SHEPHERD-ASTRONOMER ISRAEL’S GREATEST ALL-ONE-GOD-FAITH! GET $3 ESSENE
SCROLLS.

DILUTE IT…REFILL FROM GALLON OR DRUM AT STORE! OK!

The rest of the label’s pinky vastness is full of tiny messages. I’ll start
with the stuff that’s sideways on the label:

"The 2nd coming of God’s Law" Mohammed’s Arabs, 1948, found Israel
Dead-Sea-Scrolls & Einstein’s "Hillel" prove that as certain as no
6-year-old can grow up free without the abc, so certain can no 12-year old
survive free without the Moral ABC mason, tent & sandalmaker, Rabbi Hillel
taught carpenter Jesus to unite all mankind free in our Eternal Father’s
great All-One-God-Faith! For we’re All-One or none: "Listen Children
Eternal Father Eternally One!" Exceptions? None!

99. Thos. Paine: An Army of Principles can penetrate where an army of
soldiers cannot! It will succeed where diplomacy may fail! It will always
inspire-evolve-unite the Human race where any other weapon
divides-distorts-decays "ALL-ONE-GOD-FAITH" Inspired by the Messiah,
Halley’s Comet, the Blazing Star of Abraham-Israel-Bethlehem & Mohammed!

For who else but God gave man this sensuous passion, Love that can spark
mere dust to life! Revealing beauty in our Eternal Father’s fashion,
poetry, uniting All-One, all brave, all life! Who else but God! Who else!
Each day, like a bird, perfect thyself first! Have courage and smile my
friend! Think & act 10 years ahead! And the man without fault? He’s dead!
Do one thing at a time! Work hard. Get done! Then teach the Moral ABC that
unites all mankind free! Love is like a willful bird! Do you want it? It
flies away! Yet when you least expect it’s bliss, it turns around & it’s
here to stay! For centuries, man struggles, half asleep, half living,
small, jealous, bickering with mountains of red tape! To be awakened the
night God chose giving His great reward for hard work: poetry-unity-love,
evolving man above, above the ape! Passions that quicken your senses,
fulfill, quench the thirst of lonesome years! Yet the sun has shadows,
learn to control your will, to enjoy life-long happiness, not tears! For
God alone knows man’s far distant future! Towards which love’s unfailing
light shows clear the upward path to brotherhood-peace! Great tasks to
nurture, with strength and knowledge happiness can last! Love when
conquered after years of toil-sweat-blood, love can strike like greased
lightning sent by God to spark mere dust to intense blazing fire and create
new Love, faith-hope-guts-strength as only God Inspire! Unite the Human
race in our Eternal Father’s great All-One-God-Faith, as all mankind desire!

Ok, now here’s what is written horizontally down the label (each paragraph
is separated by a horizontal line):
Absolute cleanliness is Godliness! Who else but God gave man Love that can
spark mere dust to life! Poetry, uniting All-One! All brave! All life! Who
else but God! "Listen Children Eternal Father Eternally One!"
Einstein, 1939, after Nazis & Commies united, proposed spacebombs that
destroy all, unless we finally teach the Moral ABC’s the real Rabbi Hillel
taught Jesus to unite all in All-One-God-Faith. As teach astronomers
Abraham-Israel-Moses-Buddha-Hillel-Jesus-Spinoza-Paine-Sagan & Mohammed,
inspired every 76 years, 6000 years by the Messenger of God’;s Law, the
sign of the Messiah, Halley’s Comet: "WE’RE ALL ONE OR NONE!" "THERE IS NO
GOD BUT GOD!" "TEACH LOVE THY ENEMY!" "LISTEN CHILDREN ETERNAL FATHER
ETERNALLY ONE!" Israel-Moses-Buddha-Jesus-Mohammed: ONE! ALL ONE!
1st: If I’m not for me, who am I? Nobody! 2nd: Yet, if I’m only for me,
what am I? Nothing! 3rd: If not now, when? Once more: Unless
constructive-selfish I work hard, like Mark Spitz, perfecting first me,
absolute nothing can help perfect me! 4th: Only hard work-God’s law can
save us, but if we teach only our clan? We’re all hated then! So, we must
teach friend & enemy, the whole Human race, the full-truth, hard-work, free
speech. press-&-profitsharing Moral ABC’s All-One-God-Faith,
lightning-like, 6-billion-strong, for we’re All-One or none!
All-One-God-Faith, as teach the African shepherd-astronomers Abraham &
Israel, for 6000-years, since the year 1: "LISTEN CHILDREN ETERNAL FATHER
ETERNALLY ONE!" – WE’RE ONE! ALL-ONE! EXCEPTIONS ETERNALLY? NONE! ABSOLUTE
NONE!
5th: Whatever unites mankind is better than whatever divides us! Yet, if
absolute-unselfish I am not for me, I am nothing but classless, raceless,
starving masses, never free nor brave! Only if constructive-selfish I work
hard perfecting first me, like Mark Spitz-arctic
owls-penguin-pilot-cat-swallow-beaver, bee, can I teach the MORAL ABC’S
ALL-ONE-GOD-FAITH, that lightning-like unites the Human race! For we’re
ALL-ONE OR NONE! ALL-ONE! "LISTEN CHILDREN ETERNAL FATHER ETERNALLY ONE!"
EXCEPTIONS ETERNALLY? ABSOLUTE NONE!
6th: Absolute cleanliness is Godliness! Balanced food for
body-mind-soul-spirit is our medicine! Full-truth our God, half-truth our
enemy, hard work our salvation, unity our goal, free speech our weapon,
All-One our soul, self-discipline the key to love, uniting All-One above!
Above! So, when your fellow man you measure, take him at his best, with
that lever, lift him higher, overlook the rest! For we’re All-One or none!
As teach for 6000 yrs. astronomers Abraham & Israel: "LISTEN CHILDREN
ETERNAL FATHER ETERNALLY ONE!"
7th: Each swallow works hard to be perfect
pilot-provider-builder-trainer-teacher-lover-mate, no half-true hate! So,
each day like a bird, perfect thyself first! Have courage and smile my
friend. Think and act 10 years ahead! And the man without fault? He’s dead!
Do one thing at a time, work hard! Get done! Then teach friend & enemy the
Moral ABC that unites all mankind free! Uniting One! All-One! Face the
world with a smile, life is always worthwhile! To the fearless are given
crowns, keep out of the past, disappointments won’t last! Help unite
mankind, or we’re wandering clowns! Diligent preparation, precede…
spectacular restoration! So, help teach the whole Human race, the Moral
ABC’s All-One-God-Faith, lightning-like, for we’re All-One or none! All-One!

(Note – there is no 8th.)

9th: Free Speech is man’s only weapon against half-truth, that denies free
speech to smear-slay-slander-tax-enslave. Full-truth, our only God, unites
all mankind brave, if 10 men guard free speech, brave! "If every one
religion unites all mankind, it will be by omitting all irrelevancies &
redundancies, added unto the Faith in One-Almighty, all-embracing,
ever-loving, ever-evolving, ever-recreating Eternal God, & by ABSOLUTE
NOTHING ELSE!" America’s founding father, Thomas Paine, 8 books, suppressed
since 1799!
10th: Thank God we don’t descend down from the perfect Adam & Eve to sinful
sinner, brother’s keeper, divided slave! Thank God! United, hard-working
trained brave, from dust we ascend up! Thank God for that! Our brother’s
teacher of the Moral ABC, mason-tent-&-sandalmaker Hillel, taught carpenter
Jesus to unite all mankind free! With it, every Human being created on
God’s Spaceship Earth, can evolve united,
inspired-raised-trained-skilled-disciplined, guided lightning-like by a new
birth! Without it… we destroy God’s Spaceship Earth!
11th: Essene & Chinese birth controls must reduce birth or Easter Isle type
overpopulation destroys God’s Spaceship Earth! God’s law prevents all
conception below pH3. Therefore, Essene contracepted for 400 years with
rosehips, pH2! So, absolute clean, apply vaseline oil, butter or cream,
insert teaspoonful juicy lemon pulp, pH2. O.K.! Next day, douche with qt.
soapy water, pH8, restoring pH5 balance God made! Eggwhite is pH9. Dr.
Bronner’s soap, pH8, guaranteed the mildest made; below pH8 soaps
biodegradable, synthetic-sulfides cannot. At conception, 10 grams contain
100 million humans! or… 10 HUMANS IN 1 INVISIBLE MICROGRAM – SMALLER THAN
DUST!
12th: A great teacher, must first, a self-supporting hardworker be, like
Alesen-Baeck-Carnegie-Cousteau-Hammer-Liebman-Paine-Pike-Sanger-Spinoza-Stra
uss-Szasz-Wilke-Yadin-Zamenhof, or he’ll turn our greatest teaching into
spades, to bury our people! "All people!", added Carpenter Jesus entering
manhood! Manhood! but, for 2000 years, we Rabbis never teach the Moral ABC
the real Rabbi Hillel taught Jesus, to unite the Human race in our Eternal
Father’s great ALL-ONE-GOD-FAITH! For we’re ALL-ONE OR NONE! ALL-ONE! For
example: Einstein’s Rabbi Levey evicted us from his University Princeton
"Hillel Foundation", when we asked: "You agree, of course, that Hillel’s
hard work-speech-press-&-profitsharing Moral ABC, unites the Human race in
our Eternal Father’s great ALL-ONE-GOD-FAITH! The exact opposite to
Marxist-Socialism, that does demoralize-divide-decay the whole human race
today!
13th: "Knowing the full-truth that unites all, and not teaching all, is
deathly guilt." learned Jesus entering manhood! Manhood! But Marx, grandson
of 2 Rabbis, learned half-truth Ashamed, Marx wrote 1844: "One World
Without Jews," causing 66 million murders, many tortured-blinded,
terrorism! But Gorbachev found: "Surely God on high gave us enough wisdom
to unite all nations!" What an apology we Rabbis owe all nations for not
teaching the Moral ABC’s All-One-God-Faith, the real Rabbi Hillel taught
Jesus to unite the human race! For we’re All-One or none! All-One! All-One!
"Listen Children Eternal Father Eternally One!" These are the days my
friend, we know they’ll never end! We’ll work-sing-dance-love, marching on!
Marching on! We live God’s law today, we win free speech OK! With
full-truth our only God, we rally-raise-unite All-One! All-One! Exceptions
Eternally? None!
All-One-God-Faith started 1000 acre Calif. rain-forest with 1 trillion
trees God’s spaceship Earth can survive! Our 13 Essene Birth Control
Patents prevent overpopulation, save life! So in our town with 19 people
start a chapter of astronomers Israel 6000 year great All-One-God-Faith.
Send $10 for 10: $3 for 1 Moral ABC scrolls. 6 billion unite all free!
Instead of bombs, 6 billion scrolls unite the Human race instantly in
ALL-ONE GOD-FAITH! P.O. Box 28, Escondido, 92033 CA (760) 743-2211. ALL-ONE!

Finally, the following text is off by itself in a box:
CLEOPATRA’S TEACHER OF ABSOLUTE LOVE: THE "ABC" OF MAMA CAT;" WITH THE
SWALLOW’S 10 DISCIPLINES ABOVE; THE ARCTIC WHITE OWL’S BIRTH-CONTROLLED LOVE!
Arctic White Owls by Birth-Control survive: the female does not go into
heat until she sees three full months of frozen food for her young ones to
survive! Putting to shame our welfare-state, with its untrained masses,
enslaved by Marxist half-truth hate! Beavers, by family teamwork, stay
alive! Building dams, surviving the toughest winters without any welfare
help to enjoy life! Bees, once each year, drop three percent drone
parasites from hive! How else can life ascend-evolve-survive?
Cleopatra’s Art of Love, evolved Egypt’s Civilization 10,000 years back,
based on the God-Inspired "ABC of Mama Cat: Automatically, instinctively,
each Mama Cat teaches her young ones from the moment of Birth: 1st:
Absolute cleanliness is Godliness! 2nd: Constructive-selfish, build,
protect and raise food, home, young! 3rd: Absolute teamwork fertilizes
God’s Earth! 4th: Absolute harmony with God’s timing, easy birth! 5th:
Mother’s Love-discipline, joy, strength, praise! 6th: Father’s
stern-discipline, off titties when raised! 7th: Hardworking
self-discipline, brave! 8th: God’s instinct-discipline, save! 9th: Absolute
self-reliance! Nine lives! Strength, to carry on! 10th: Absolute dignity,
beauty, relaxation, fun! 11th: Absolute tenacity gets it done! 12th:
Absolute perfect sense of direction, ESP! 13th: Free, brave! No Marxist
slave! Mama Cat’s ABC of Love and the Swallow’s Song inspired by the
Kingdom of God’s law! All-One! Above! Above!
All swallows evolve united to perfect pilots by full-truth, hard work,
God’s law, trained brave! No slave! Brave! Always evolving-united, free in
All-One-God-Faith! Hardworking, self-disciplined, no
parasite-blackmail-welfare-slave! Therefore, brave we live to
teach-work-love-inspire-unite! All-One! Win Victory! Help get it done!
Teach to unite All-One! All-One! All-One! For these are the days my friend,
we know they’ll never end! We’ll work-sing-dance-love marching on! Marching
on! We’ll teach how to Love God’s Way! We’ll fight for it, OK! For we’re
young and sure to unite All-One! All-One!
All freedom loving children hate the word "Discipline!" Yet,
self-discipline is the key to freedom! Without it, even the most brilliant
head remains useless, ineffective, small! How basic is self-discipline?
Anthropologist, Margaret Mead, found Arctic Timberwolves litter abandoned,
the mother probably killed: "So, we put the timberwolf pups with our
Daschund mother, since she only had one pup of her own. She raised the
timberwolves. Within three months, they were twice as large as their foster
mother.
Now, when we threw a chunk of raw meat into the kennel, the pups attacked
it ravenously, like timberwolves, but one grunt from their Daschund mother,
and they jumped back, stood still like a soldier at attention, waiting
obediently until the Daschund mother had eaten her fill, then with a loving
grunt she gave them permission to go back and eat!"
That illustration of love-discipline was amazing; but any wild animal, bird
or bee, has that self-discipline down to a "T", or there is no survival!
This proves we must replace, with The Moral ABC, our Marxist welfare state,
or we won’t survive free! We perish by half-true hate! Learn the Moral ABC
to unite free: You Must Decide! 1st: Work hard to perfect thyself! 2nd:
United-loving, armed-brave! 3rd: To teach all, every slave! 4th: The Moral
ABC, 6 billion strong, with Essene Birth-Control, a trillion Isreal-system
fruit trees and "How to Love." lightning-like uniting all free! All-One!
Above! Above. With half-truth, slavery, barbarism gone! Evolving-united,
inspired-guided by full-truth, hard work, God’s Law, Eternally One!
All-One! All-One!

This will last you a long time! It’s 2 years after I bought this and I still have some left after almost daily use. It smells good and I love that you can use it for many different purposes.

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.