Talk:Emanuel Bronner/Archives/2012

Information to review for inclusion into article.
According to information on the companies website under FAQS, using castile soap as a shampoo is not one of their formal recommendations. Here is info to review below.

Castile soap has a high alkalinity level, measured at about 9. pH of skin and hair has a slightly acidic pH level known to be about 5 to 6. Due to the higher pH level, liquid castile soap is not highly recommended by this company for washing hair because it is not pH-balanced and it may be drying to sensitive hair. Also, the brand name is Dr. Bronners Magic Soaps but E.H. Bronner was never a doctor. I was thinking of adding the two sentences which are the following below. Please overview. Thanks.

I've washed everything but my teeth with it for 5 years; even in a Minnesota winter I don't feel dried out nearly as much as I did when I used moisturizing soaps, plus the scents are groovy, especially lavender and almond. Given the lifestyles and poliitics of the rich plutocrats at Proctor & Gamble, I'm grateful that Bronner's soaps work and the money goes to some visionary fruitcake on the West Coast.e

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.98.56.21 (talk) 04:37, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

The brand name is Dr. Bronners Magic Soaps and yet the founder was never a doctor.

According to information on the companies website cited under the heading FAQS, using liquid castile soap as a shampoo for washing hair is not one of their formal recommendations.

It should also be noted that, contrary to the article, Bronner never claimed that his soap could function as a contraceptive; this misnotion is primarily due to the term "owl's birth-controlled love" found on the wrapper of his baby soap. What this passage means, is that love is influenced by life and birth, not that, literally, the soap functions as a method of birth control.

This is a little disjointed, but are items worth researching.

The labels are now actually screen printed onto the bottles. They used to be printed onto paper stock and then adheared on the bottles. The problem arose that the glued on paper would eventually come off in the shower.

Also Dr. E. Bronner would give lectures back in the late 60's early 70's (a lot of times in the Bay Area which attracted a lot of the hippie crowd) until around the 80's..? After his death, his son Ralph Bronner took up the reigns and went out on the lecture circuit with a one man show about his late father. Dr. E. Bronner also had another son, Jim Bronner who was also involved in the business, but more in a "hands on" role with quality control and management. Ralph was more of a marketer and promoter for the products. Jim Bronner passed away in 1998. Ralph is still alive. Dr. E. Bronner also had a daughter (I forget her name) but she passed away in the 70's (80's?) from and unknown ailment, either cancer or MS. Dr. E. Bronner also claimed to be a nephew of Albert Einstein.

During the 1930's (?) Dr. E. Bronner was interned in a mental hospital, but managed to escape from there and headed to California. He claimed that the hospital staff were communists/nazis(?) and made him mix cement and forced him into shock therapy. He also reffered to that mental hospital as a concentration camp harking back to his times living Germany and the death of his parents by the Nazi regime at that time.

The soap business is now mostly taken over by the grown grandchildren. And it is said that over 70% of the money that comes into the business today is given back to the employees and to the various local (national?) charities.--DLNorton 07:23, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

"I agree."
I met Dr. Bronner in 1980, when I worked for a San Diego company that distributed healthful products. I made a delivery to his home in Escondido, and Dr. Bronner, apparently blind, sort of pulled me into the house and showed me how to properly wash my hands! A singular experience. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.187.223.153 (talk) 17:23, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

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Citation from JSOnline.com is not found, citation 3. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.52.73.71 (talk) 19:03, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Apparently that has been fixed: "On his soapbox: Man of ideas lathered his cleansing product with messages". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 1997-06-08. Archived from the original on 2007-03-12. Retrieved 2010-06-05. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 23:25, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

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Bronner wasn't really a rabbi.


 * OK. --FOo


 * It's an honorary title. Tex 19:44, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Bronner was never really a doctor. It is just marketing. That is the nature of the beast.


 * I heard Dr. Pepper isn't a real doctor either.


 * Do not let him touch your genitals. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 200.146.82.147 (talk) 07:21, 29 March 2007 (UTC).


 * And General Motors is actually only a corporal. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lockley (talk • contribs) 15:44, 23 March 2007 (UTC).


 * But Captain Crunch was really a captain right? 131.194.200.62 02:55, 6 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, Captain Crunch was a real captain. He's still waiting on that promotion to admiral though. 24.144.212.130 (talk) 20:41, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

There's an "Admiral Nelson" rum, with a picture on it that doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to the actual Admiral Nelson. And speaking of pictures, the photo of Dr Bronner makes him look like the caricature of a mad scientist. JHobson3 (talk) 13:39, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
 * If the shoe fits. Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 14:37, 3 April 2016 (UTC)