Dr Bronner's (Magic) Castile Soap

Our little 'quest' to cut down on chemicals in the house...

I get food poisoning a lot more easily than the people around me.

I don't get why. We'd be eating the same food off the same plate and I'll be down with food poisoning while the others are fine.

One day, after my nth episode of food poisoning, I decided that I've had enough and told the husband that I didn't want to use the antibacterial hand soaps anymore.

(I am not sure if that is the reason but I have this bad habit of constantly washing my hands that I picked up after I started cooking. Didn't use to get food poisoning in the past before I did that, so...)

I'm pretty sure the husband was more than delighted to hear that because he took the chance to introduce castile soap to me - something he has been wanting to get for quite a while.

So we dropped by Brown Rice Paradise the next day and got ourselves this.

Not quite sure if it works this way but we got the one with tea tree oil due to its disinfecting properties.

I love it!

Let's talk about the packaging.

Doesn't it look like it's could have been from an apothecary many years back?

Rather vintage looking, eh?

I've read in some reviews that they don't fancy the messy labels with messages splashed across it, yet none that states the directions of use.

That's exactly why I love it.

Never mind that most of the messages sound pretty religious.

It's really entertaining, especially when you are taking a little too long on the potty.

I read every single one of it.

Directions of use (and dilution proportions) can be found here.

I'm pretty sold on the product after I saw some slides on harmful chemicals that a friend sent me.

This doesn't contain tricloson.

No parabens.

No Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS).

No alcohols.

Very natural.

Bye bye toxic chemicals!

This liquid soap has tonnes of uses (18 they say!) but we've only used it as a hand wash so far.

We have been using it for a month now and I love it.

I still wash my hands excessively but never found my hands dry.

(Unlike when I was using Bath and Body Works, which I love too, but gave me dry hands at the rate I wash them.)

The tea tree oil smells good too and that's a bonus.

It's important to dilute the soap because it comes concentrated.

For the hand wash, we mix 1 part soap with 4 parts water (20% soap, 80% water).

It helps to put it in a foaming bottle too.

Because we loved it so much, we purchased more of Dr Bronner's Castile Liquid Soap.

I'm thinking of trying it out as a shower foam and shampoo partly because now I'm starting to get more concerned about what I put on my skin and hair.

We got all of these from Qoo10 - The Good Earth.

I like that they have small bottles available so that we can try out the different scents.

I chose all the scents except almond because it doesn't seem to have fantastic reviews online.

We got ourselves the baby mild soap to try it out on Lil' J as well.

Sidenote: The seller was really prompt in his reply and fast in delivery. We received these on the same day! 

We have been reusing the Kirei Kirei foaming bottle for the hand wash for quite some time now so we thought we should get ourselves a proper foaming bottle.

Isn't it cute?

Now I can't wait to try them all!