Dilute! Dilute! OK!* But how much? Here is a quick reference. None of this is a hard and fast rule. If your stuff is really dirty or your water is really hard, then you may want to use [...] 
				
			
		
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			Happy Birthday, Pop!
				
				
This week my dad Jim Bronner would have been 74. My dad was not officially at the helm of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps very long, but although his official time heading Dr. Bronner’s was short [...] 
				
			
		
				
				
There is an elephant in the room, or at least in the kitchen, related to this whole business of cleaning up our lifestyles: food. All this time, I’ve discussed what goes on our bodies or wh [...] 
				
			
		
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			Changing the Smell of Clean
				
				
"It smells like vinegar in here," my son said after I had been cleaning mirrors.
I assured him that the smell would soon dissipate.
He said, "I like it. It smells clean."
And here [...] 
				
			
		
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			Wood: Making It Shine
				
				
When I sat down to write about wood, I figured it would be a quick short post. Six pages of notes later, I realized this wasn’t the case. Here’s what I have boiled it down to:
Key point [...] 
				
			
		
				
				
The liquid came first – Peppermint to be exact. Bar soap meandered in a few decades later. While there are hardliners in both camps, the difference between liquid and bar is mostly a matte [...] 
				
			
		 
 
 
 
 
 
 
