WHY ARE DR. BRONNER’S SOAPS OF SUCH HIGH QUALITY?
Quality soap-making consists in great part of choosing the right proportions of the right oils with their different fatty acids. Most commercial soap manufacturers skimp on quality because of cost and use lots of tallow from beef fat with a little bit of coconut or palm kernel oil. Dr. Bronner’s unsurpassed soaps are made with certified organic olive, hemp and palm oils instead of tallow, and contain three times more organic coconut oil than commercial soaps. Saponified coconut oil generates high-lather cleansing even in hard water because it has shorter-chain saturated fatty acids. Hemp, olive and palm oil-based soaps make a mild, smooth, creamy lather because these oils contain longer-chain unsaturated and poly-unsaturated fatty acids. • Unlike most commercial soap-makers who distill the glycerin out of their soaps to sell separately, Dr. Bronner’s retains it in their soaps for its superb moisturizing qualities. • Dr. Bronner’s superfat their soaps with organic hemp and jojoba oils f
