Dr. Bronner's Baby Unscented Pure-Castile Liquid Soap, 32 oz

I use this soap for everything baby related. I use it to bathe my kids, wash bottles, wash pacifiers, toys etc. I also buy the bar soap version of the unscented to bathe myself. I have zero complaints. It gets the job done, leaves no residues, and I love that it’s fragrance free. I used to get eczema flare ups when I would use bath & body works soap, and have not had a problem since I switched to this. I do wish it was cheaper since I use it so much, but it is a fair price for the clean ingredients.

I’ve been looking for body soap that is sensitive and all other brands claim they are meanwhile they have harsh chemicals. So I chose this product and I’m so glad I did because it’s great even for adults. This is all I use now. For exfoliating or regular showers. It doesn’t have a strong fragrance, the size of the bottle is great because u only need to use less than a quarter and dilute it. Removes all the oils or first off and leaves you feeling fresh.

I have really sensitive skin that is easily irritated by perfumes and by all the weird harsh chemicals that are in most soaps. Even the "gentle" unscented Dove soap gives me a rash after a shower, but this stuff? not so much as a minor itch. There is ZERO irritation to my skin from this soap, it's a miracle. I use it primarily in the shower as bodywash and shampoo. It's so affordable too, I don't need some fancy boutique brand, this is is all I need. Great deal on this big jug. It takes so little of this soap at a time to be effective that even small bottles lasted me well. This huge one should last me a VERY long time. I feel a little silly getting excited over buying soap but I'm really happy to be feeling clean again and not end up itchy from the generic soap my family buys after I'd run out of this. I was avoiding showers because of it. Now I can thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly clean my body in the shower without any discomfort afterwards. It's so gentle on my skin yet so effective at cleaning. Dr. Bronner must be a genius.

I absolutely love this Dr. Bronner’s unscented baby-mild pure castile liquid soap. It has become a staple in my routine because I use it as the base to make my own natural, homemade shampoo. I mix this liquid castile soap with jojoba oil and a little lemon oil, and it cleans beautifully without harsh chemicals (I always follow it up with an apple cider vinegar rinse, and my hair feels fantastic!). Because it is so concentrated, the 32 oz bottle is incredibly long-lasting. A little bit goes a very long way, making it a fantastic value for the money. If you are looking for a completely natural, versatile, and high-quality soap for DIY personal care products, this is the one to get. Pros: Very concentrated and long-lasting, making it a great value. Completely natural and unscented, making it the perfect base for DIY recipes. Gentle enough for sensitive skin but cleans wonderfully. Cons: None! It is a fantastic, versatile staple.

I didn't see many reviews talking at length about using this as a shampoo, so I thought I would add one. Expect my personal experiences and opinion, identified as such, mixed in. I use this soap for shampoo, body wash, face wash, I put it in my bath, I've used it to clean my counters, I've used it to clean dishes. The peppermint is my favorite, especially for soaking in the bath because it tingles and it's the best scented in my opinion, also for shampoo, again because it tingles. To clean, I put a little on a damp terry cleaning cloth or kitchen towel and just wipe. I use it on kitchen and bathroom counters, and I dissolve it in water to mop with. I prefer to use the tea tree for cleaning. As a shampoo, I am puzzled by all the claims I had heard online about castile soap/saponified oil being drying to the hair, and I suspect that many of the people making those claims either haven't tried it and are just perpetuating the general misconception, or maybe they are using it wrong (I'll explain why I think that). This is an extremely gentle product. I have CURLY hair, and it is dyed(with one of those clairol nice n easy super harsh store bought dyes)(#124 natural blue black, if you want to know). Curly hair is generally more dry, and harder to keep conditioned, than straight hair, and mine is no exception. My hair is super fine and super dry, and prone to breakage. I find using this soap as shampoo is actually much LESS drying to my hair than other types of shampoo. If you are going to use this as a shampoo, you have to keep a couple of things in mind; -1. Use less than you think you need. Less than what you would use if you were using a normal shampoo. You are not going to get as rich of a lather with this soap. That doesn't mean it doesn't clean as well, and it doesn't mean you didn't use enough soap. A little known fact is that the ingredients that clean your hair in normal shampoos don't lather either. Shampoo manufacturers ADD lathering agents purely for consumer impression. You get the impression as you are washing your hair that you are getting your hair really super clean because you are getting a nice thick rich lather, but in reality, the lather is not what is doing the cleaning, and to a small degree, lathering agents actually prevent detergent agents from working as well as they otherwise would. That's why, in industrial cleaning supplies(not the ones you can find in walmart) they typically don't add lathering agents. Normal shampoos have harsher detergent agents than this soap because of that effect, and because of the types of ingredients in normal conditioners(read on). -2. Lather, rinse, THEN REPEAT. Shampoo twice, even if you are unaccustomed to doing that with normal shampoos. -3. RINSE REALLY REALLY WELL. After you have rinsed your hair and the soap is all out of it; rinse it all over again. -4. Don't use a 'normal' conditioner, pick one without any heavy 'cones' in it. Most conditioners have ingredients whose last four letters end in c-o-n-e (like silicone, amodimethicone, cyclomethicone, etc.). Not all, but many, of these ingredients coat your hair and supposedly make it seem incredibly silky and shiny and beautiful and glorious and on and on (and cone leave-ins really give you this effect), but what they also do is keep the natural oils, from your scalp, and any other moisturizing products you may use, from actually getting into your hair, so you get on this cycle of stripping your hair with a normal shampoo, then coating your hair with a normal conditioner, then stripping then coating then stripping, etc., and your hair is getting drier and drier. Not all cones do this. There are lighter ones and ones that are water soluble that are not doing anything bad, and it's up to you to use cones or not, but...IF YOU ARE USING THIS SOAP FOR SHAMPOO...then I would recommend staying away from it altogether. The harsh detergents in normal shampoos can handle stripping the normal conditioners from your hair with one washing, but this shampoo is much gentler and probably won't. This is what I think people are doing wrong when they think this hair is drying their hair out. I don't know, maybe they are worried it might, so they get what they think is going to be a really good conditioner, but it's a 'normal' conditioner, and as a result they aren't giving this soap an honest chance. They think it's this shampoo, but it's really their conditioner, that is causing their hair to be dry. There are a ton of really good conditioners that don't have cones in them. Dr. Bronner's makes a conditioner, but it's pricey. The thing that makes this soap a great product is partly that it is almost immortal. (My last 16 ounce bottle of the peppermint lasted me 8 years. Admittedly, that was before I tried it as a shampoo, but that would've maybe shaved a couple years, at most, off of the 8.) The Dr. Bronner's conditioner will not last as long, and there are better ones that are cheaper. If you google 'Paula's Choice', you can find a website of the same name that has an outstanding ingredient list, so you can see what the good ingredients are, and there are tons of websites listing cone free conditioners. (Personally, I don't use a conditioner, I wash my hair and then when I am out of the shower I massage a nickel sized amount of light or extra virgin olive oil into my hair. Yes, I actually do that. It doesn't make my hair oily, it just soaks right in. I've been doing that for a very long time, even when I was still using normal shampoo, and It has never made my hair feel oily. On days when I don't shampoo which is about 6 days out of 7, I just rinse my hair in the shower and if my hair seems dry when I get out, I will add a tiny amount more. This doesn't weigh my hair down either, like I said, my hair is curly and it still pops up in spontaneous ringlets) (I get my olive oil in a gigantic bottle from walmart that costs me all of around $1.62.) -5. You don't need to wash your hair every day. That's not really about this particular shampoo, just in general. If you don't believe me, ask your stylist. Just, when you take a shower, rinse it and condition it, if you choose to use a conditioner. As I stated above, I really only wash mine once a week. Trust me; nobody will be able to tell. A little note about the different scents I've tried; Peppermint smells heavenly but has a noticeable tingle, that's good if you like and want it, bad if you don't. Lavender is my second favorite, it's a strong lavender scent. I mean it, this is not lavender for the weak of heart, this is not 'glade plug ins lavender fairy-farts', this is not a freaking fabric softener with a baby teddy bear on the label, this is hardcore hippie tree hugger lavender (love for the hippie tree huggers). If you've never smelled lavender the actual herb, and you've only ever smelled lavender scented products (even the organic ones, because, of the ones I've tried, the organic products that are lavender scented are still not as strong as this one), then you might possibly want to buy the 4 ounce size first to try. I like the little 4 ounce bottle anyway because I can refill it from the big bottles and use it on trips, so then you'll have the bottle. Tea Tree is strong too, if you like tea tree (I do, I liked this one) you'll really love it, if you don't like tea tree you'll REALLY hate it it, if you aren't sure if you like it, then you should definitely buy the tiny bottle first and try it, you don't want to be stuck with a product that lasts as long as this one does if you don't like it. Tea Tree also seems to me to have a very light tingle to it. Lastly, Rose. ROSE. UGH. I read online and thought people who didn't like this scent didn't know what they were talking about about this scent being so bad, and I bought it anyway because I trust this company and I was a moron to do it. Really, honestly, trust me, it smells nothing like a rose, or even remotely floral, it smells like what I imagine rancid gummy bears might smell like if it were possible for gummy bears to rot, and it is so sickeningly strong and so sweet smelling that when you smell it it makes your teeth hurt. I use mine to clean my bathroom and pray longingly for the day when I'll run out of it. ***EDITED TO ADD*** Since posting this review, I wanted to add a couple more bits of info. Firstly, this monster has taken on a life of it's own, and people are adding, in the comments, all sorts of fantastic tips of their own about hair care, so make sure you check them out. It's some great stuff. Second, Olive Oil. Quite a while ago, I added a comment to this review including, among other things, clarifying some thing you need to know when considering using olive oil on your hair, and I wanted to paste that here. Uh...so...here it is. encased in the []; [There are different types of olive oil. Extra virgin olive oil is the opposite of extra light olive oil. Evoo is mucch heavier and thicker. I think its fattier. You can tell how heavy an olive oil is by its color, EVOO is green and extra light olive oil is clear. The 'spectrum', getting lighter in thickness/weight and lighter in color from green to clear is; EVOO, virgin olive oil, pure olive oil, light olive oil, extra light olive oil. If you want to try olive oil, maybe start at pure olive oil and move up or down, depending on how dry/oily or thick/fine your hair is. What you dont use, you can always cook with!] Lastly, I was in the process of using up a bottle of bronner's when I initially wrote this review. Since then, I used that bottle up, and went to the store intending to buy a replacement bottle of lavender. Well, they were out. They did have peppermint, which I bought a bottle of, and they also had the lavender in bar form. I got experimental one day in the bath, and used the bar form to wash my hair. FANTASTIC. Lathers great, cleans great, smells great. The one aspect of using the bar to wash your hair that I liked the most was this; when you use the liquid, it's difficult to control how much goes into your hand. If you are using too much of the liquid, then it becomes hard to 'control' in your hand. What I am saying is, you pour the correct amount into your hand, and then you rub your hands together rapidly to emulsify it, and then you apply it to your hair and wash away. If you've put too much into your hand, then you lose some of it when you're rubbing your hands together. PHEW! My gosh that was hard to explain. My POINT...finally...is that the bar eliminates this problem completely, so if you're a fan of the liquid, give the bar a try too, I like them both equally. ***EDITED TO ADD*** HELLO EVERYBODY!!! Yes, I'm still around, I still have hair, and this monster review is still making the rounds. Just wanted to add an update. My hair is still corkscrew curly, that's its natural state, if anything it is more curly. It is no longer dyed black, that's because I've started to go pretty grey up there, and it looks cool that way so I leave it, i don't dye it anymore. What HAS changed is that I no longer use olive oil on my hair, I now use coconut oil, and I only use it every other day. I do this because for one I like the scent a little better, but also because coconut oil is solid at room temperature, which means that instead of pouring liquid olive oil into your hand and juggling with that, you just take like a butter knife and get some solid olive oil out of a jar. What I do is put like a nickel sized lump of coconut oil in my palm and then rub my hands together briskly to liquefy it, it just melts, and rub it through my hair. Keep posting your tips! I know people are loving to read them and try them out for themselves.

I’ve been using this unscented Dr. Bronner’s liquid soap for about two weeks, and I finally understand why people love it. It’s truly an “18-in-1” product, but how much you like it will depend on how you dilute it. 👍 What I like • Extremely gentle: I have sensitive skin (and kids with sensitive skin), and this hasn’t caused any dryness or irritation. The unscented version really is fragrance-free. • Very concentrated: You only need a tiny amount. I mixed a small squeeze with a full bottle of water for hand soap and it still foams well. • Multi-purpose: I’ve used it for handwashing, body wash, and even diluted it to clean makeup brushes. It works for all three. • Clean ingredients: I love that it’s made with organic oils and no synthetic fragrances, perfect if you’re trying to avoid unnecessary chemicals. What could be better: • Can feel drying if used straight: Full-strength is way too strong. You really do need to dilute it, or it can leave your skin a little tight. I didn’t realize this at first and now that I use it diluted it works much much better. • Watery texture: Because it’s so natural and oil-based, it pours out fast. You have to be careful or you’ll accidentally use too much. Quality & Performance • Gentleness: 10/10, especially for sensitive skin. • Cleansing power: Strong — even when diluted. • Value: Excellent. One bottle will last forever if you mix it properly. • Packaging: Arrived sealed and leak-free. Overall, If you want a truly gentle, fragrance-free soap that can be used for almost anything, this is a great option. Just be prepared to dilute it and experiment a bit until you find the perfect strength for your skin. Once you do, it’s a super cost-effective and clean-ingredient staple to keep in the house.

I purchased this after noticing aphids on a hibiscus plant I had recently bought from a nursery. I wanted to start with one of the mildest treatment options first, and plain unscented Castile soap was recommended in several places as a gentle starting point for soft-bodied pests like aphids. I mixed it with water and used it as a plant spray. For my badly infested hibiscus, I used about halfway between 1/4 teaspoon and 1/2 teaspoon per quart of water. I noticed a major difference after the first application. About a week later, I still saw a few here and there, so I did a second treatment. After that, it seemed to take care of the issue well enough that I felt comfortable planting the hibiscus in the ground instead of keeping it quarantined. What I like: • Worked well for the aphid issue I used it for • Noticeable improvement after the first treatment • Helped enough after two treatments that I felt comfortable planting the hibiscus • Also seemed to help nearby annuals that may have had some spread • A little goes a long way when diluted • Useful household item beyond just this one plant use • Felt like a good mild first step before trying anything stronger Things to be aware of: • I would be careful not to mix it too strong • I would test a small area of the plant first before spraying the whole thing • I sprayed in shade and avoided direct sun and heat • It is important to hit the undersides of leaves where aphids hide • I lightly rinsed the plant with plain water after letting it sit for a short time • This worked best by direct contact, so coverage matters • I would not expect this to work the same way on beetles, caterpillars, or chewing insects • Some plants may be more sensitive than others • My hibiscus leaves still looked a little rough afterward, but I think that was from the aphids, heat, and being stuck in a small nursery pot during the process Overall: This worked well for what I needed it for. It helped with aphids on my hibiscus and nearby annuals after two treatments about a week apart. I would use it carefully, test first, avoid spraying in hot sun, and keep expectations realistic, but I was very happy with it as a mild first treatment option.

This is a really good soap. I use it on my body, and it helps a lot with body acne and removing dead skin. It makes me feel super clean, and I love how much it suds. You do have to use it the right way to get a good lather. I really wet my washcloth first, then put a decent amount of soap on it in a circular motion. After that, I rub the washcloth together with both hands to work up the suds. It lathers a LOT when you use enough product, but if you only use a little, you won't get nearly as much lather. The fragrance doesn't last, which I actually like because the soap has kind of an old-man smell 😂. Once you rinse the soap off, though, the smell goes right along with it. What I love most is that it leaves absolutely no residue. It literally washes you bare—squeaky clean. There's no slippery film or anything left behind afterward. I will say that this soap is very drying, but as someone who sweats a lot, that's actually something I like about it. I want that really deep, stripped-down clean feeling. If you prefer moisturizing soaps or don't like your skin feeling squeaky clean, this might be too cleansing for you. But if you like feeling extremely clean after a shower, this is a great soap.

Adopté il y a deux ans, je ne changerai plus jamais de produit de ménage, de lavage de linge, de lavage de toutou, et de lavage d'homme. Conseille bien être : 3/4 gouttes d'huile essentielle de mandarine dans l'eau de lavage du sol, bon pour la détente et le bien être.

Great product for the medicine cabinet , nice to have on hand when needed

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Oh, it's good!! I'm using it as a cleaner rather than a body soap. It cuts through grease and kitchen gunk so well. I have a dog and the weather is awful - this cleans the floor like a boss. I did have to take a couple of attempts to get the dilution right for the wooden floors. It leaves a residue otherwise which means a second wash with plain water. Gentle enough for the walls too. The bottle will last ages and smells great!

Très bon savon, aussi bon pour le corps que comme savon à main. Très concentré et dure longtemps!