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Dr. Bronner's Pure-Castile Soap Frequently Asked Questions

• 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. "Pure-Castile" is now also your guarantee that what you are consuming is a real ecological simple soap, not a complex blend of detergents with a higher impact on the Earth due to the waste stream during manufacture and slower biodegradability: unfortunately, many synthetic detergent blends are deceptively labeled as "Liquid Soap."

  Both our bar and liquid soaps are pure-castile, as they are all vegetable oil based. The new bar soap wrapper prominently states that it, too, is pure-castile, like our liquid. The difference between the liquid and bar is that the liquid soap uses potas-sium hydroxide to saponify the vegetable oils, versus the sodium hydroxide used to make the hard bar soap.

• Does the Rosemary Extract contribute any scent to the soap?

  No. The Rosemary Extract is effective as an anti-oxidant in our soap at 0.005%. It contributes absolutely no scent, even in the unscented Aloe Vera Baby-Mild soap.

• How should I dilute the liquid soap?

  For everyday body-washing: Get wet and pour drops of 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.

• My liquid soap turned cloudy. What happened, and what should I do to clear it up again?

  Our liquid soaps are so concentrated that they are nearly solid. Thus, when the temperature drops to about 50 degrees F, the fatty acids begin to cloud out. Put the soap in a warm room, or warm water, and it will clear up about 70 degrees F. Clear or cloudy, the soap works just the same.

QUESTIONS:

1. 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?
2. Does the Rosemary Extract contribute any scent to the soap?
3. How should I dilute the liquid soap?
4. My liquid soap turned cloudy. What happened, and what should I do to clear it up again?
5. What is "potassium solution"?
6. What is the difference between a "fixed" and an "essential" oil?
7. Do your soaps contain any foaming agents/detergents like Sodium Lauryl Sulfate?
8. What is the difference between a soap and a detergent/surfactant?

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