Talk:Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps

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Adding mention of the varied product uses and text-heavy label

It seems as though the secondary sources indicate this company's products are known for their varied (almost comical) uses and for its text-heavy label. For example,

Irish Times: "This liquid soap can be used to wash your face, body, hands and hair, to bath, shave, brush your teeth, rinse fruit, clean dishes, do laundry, wash windows, mop floors, scrub toilets, control dust mites, kill ants and aphids (garden pests), aromatherapy and even wash your dog."
Business Insider: "Easily recognizable by the tiny-print labels on every bottle, the soap comes in eight different scents and claims to have over 18 uses, including shampoo, toothpaste, body wash, deodorant, household cleaner, and more."
NPR: "Emmanuel Bronner, a chemist, escaped from a mental institution and developed his own brand of peppermint soap that has a variety of uses. He also covered the label with religious and philosophical sayings." (description of the subject of a documentary in an interview with the documentary filmmaker)

These do not appear to be promotional pieces or to be involved with the company to my eye. If you google ("bronner" "soap" "uses"), there are dozens of pages describing the various uses. I'm currently working on getting access to newspapers.com through the WikiLibrary, but even without being able to see the actual articles, it seems like there are tons and tons of non-trivial mentions of the number and variety of uses for the product: https://www.newspapers.com/search/beta/?#query=bronner+soap+uses. My only concern is that this may be seen as promotional or advertising, but I think the laundry list of uses is one of the reasons the company became notable and therefore should be mentioned on the page. I therefore am adding the following sentence to the article:

The company's products are known in popular culture for their text-heavy labels and the variety of their advertised uses for a single product (e.g. one soap advertises eighteen uses, from toothpaste and shampoo to toilet scrubber and insecticide).^[1]^[2]

If others have comments, I would appreciate the input. Ikjbagl (talk) 15:51, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Harris, Kathleen. "Naturally.... Dr Bronner's soap can clean nearly anything". The Irish Times.
^ Willett, Megan. "14 things you can do with Dr. Bronner's magic soaps". Business Insider.

Orphaned references in Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "journal-sentinel":

From Elgin Mental Health Center: "On his soapbox: Man of ideas lathered his cleansing product with messages". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 1997-06-08. Archived from the original on 2007-03-12. Retrieved 2010-06-05.
From Emanuel Bronner: "On his soapbox: Man of ideas lathered his cleansing product with messages". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 1997-06-08. Archived from the original on 2007-03-12. Retrieved 2010-06-05.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 10:04, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ketamine advocacy

[1] This seems worth mentioning in the article. 2601:648:8202:350:0:0:0:C115 (talk) 02:43, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Magic

The company seems to have de-emphasised the magic aspect; their soaps are now Dr Bronner's 18-in-One Pure-Castile Soap, with no mention of magic. The website sells magic chocolate, but the soap doesn't appear to be magic any more. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 18:17, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No, tell a lie. The soap still has a "Dr Bronner's ALL-ONE! Magic Soaps" logo, but it's not as prominent as it used to be. The change seems to have happened around 2016-17, judging by the internet archive's record of the website. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 18:32, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

First paragraph of history

The first paragraph of history seems to trail off into unrelated talk about the founder's name change, this is not relevant to the topic in the article, only the owner's life. JohnWarosa (talk) 22:48, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Harris, Kathleen. "Naturally.... Dr Bronner's soap can clean nearly anything". The Irish Times.

[2] Willett, Megan. "14 things you can do with Dr. Bronner's magic soaps". Business Insider.

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