Going Green with Lisa Bronner

I Wash My Face with Castile Soap

"Enjoy only 2 cosmetics: enough sleep and Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap." While there may be many things on my grandfather’s label that are rather enigmatic, this statement is as str [...]

Education

Three Ways Things Get Clean

Let’s back up a bit and look at the big picture of how things get clean. There are three ways by which anything can be cleaned: Thermally (heat), Mechanically (scrubbing), or Chemically (b [...]

Bathroom

Scum, Scum, Go Away

Photo by iStock Let’s not pretend here. The drawback to using real, or a true soap in the bathroom is that you have to face the reality of scum. Soap scum, to be exact. It’s gonna happen. S [...]

House

Open Wide

Photo by iStock What do we have more of in our houses – solid surfaces or air? We spend all this time talking about safe ways to clean the surfaces in our houses, but the dirtiest element o [...]

Encouragement

Falling off the Green Machine

It happens. I’m guilty of it often enough. The stomach flu hits three kids in one day and I start to mistrust everything I know about the effectiveness of natural cleaners and the dangers [...]

Lisa holding Castile Magic Soap and vinegar.

Castile Soap

Why Vinegar & Castile Soap Don’t Mix Well

Photo by Josh McMurtrie Dr. Bronner’s Pure-Castile Magic Soap and vinegar can clean an entire house. They are effective, versatile, biodegradable and non-toxic. But the sole point of this p [...]

Dr. Bronner’s Pure Castile vs. Sugar Soaps

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