Dr. Bronner's Pure-Castile Liquid Soap, Made with Organic Oils, 18-in-1 Uses: Face, Body, Hair, Laundry, Pets and Dishes, Concentrated, Vegan, Non-GMO, Lavender, 32 Oz

I’ve been using it for 2 years now, I love it and my skin loves it. It’s effective, the ingredients are good for you, it smells good and fresh. I have yet to see leave any residue on my skin with I hate when other products do that. It’s gentle on the skin super gentle, and it’s great for the price especially before you can dilute it so it let longer

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.

This soap is great for everything from washing dishes, moping the floor, hand washing you can dilute it or used as is, very effective, natural ingredients, moisturizing , great value for the money and gentle on the skin I bath my dogs with it sometimes, it built a little residue for long term use but is nothing compared to other soaps I try.

I have been using Dr. Bronners products for - over 25 Years- This company Only uses "clean" ingredients. The Lavender is a true Lavender and has a beautiful scent. If You like Eucalyptus... this one is refreshing and is a true eucalyptus scent. If you want a soap that you can use for your entire family.. "including your pets" 🐾 should they have allergies... Then you are going to love this soap! Please keep in mind... a little goes a long way... Because of this , the soap is also cost effective.

I absolutely love Dr. Bronner’s body wash! It leaves my skin feeling fresh, clean, and refreshed without feeling harsh or overly dry. I love how clean I feel after using it, and the natural ingredients and refreshing scent are an added bonus. A little goes a long way, so the bottle lasts quite a while. It has definitely become one of my favorite body washes, and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a great, refreshing, clean-feeling product!

Great for whole body use. Has a good mild gentle scent, but ladies don't it let hang out on your lady bits. Rinse fast. 😆

I love the lavender scent and how concentrated this soap is. A little goes a long way, it lathers well, and I can use it for so many different things around the house.

This will be a long review but I think its necessary. It's also very divided. It worked good for general cleaning, not necessarily heavy stuff though. And I loved it on my skin. I didn't try it as a toothpaste, maybe i will one desperate day lol. It helped as a deodorant and killed fleas on my dog. It's rated as a 4 only because I didn't like it as a shampoo. I've read tons of reviews on how people just love it as a shampoo, and complain that people that don't like it didn't give it enough time (they advise at least a week). Well I gave it a week and am now giving it up. I've read you're not supposed to wash your hair every day, especially with a real soap, so that is why I only used it every other day or so. Here is my story: DAY ONE- 1st I should note my hair is shoulder length, fine but fairly thick, & bleached blonde with light reddish brown lowlights. Received Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Soap & Shikakai Conditioning Rinse. 9pm washed hair with soap full strenth, probably used 1/4 cup, and poured 2-3 tbsp on rag to wash body & face. Smells awesome but loses lather fairly quick. Common sense, but avoid eyes! It dripped in mine a little & burned (yes they were closed tight) but I wouldn't expect any different it IS a soap after all. And any astringent type face treatment does that. Body felt SOOO crisply clean, with a cool tingly feeling. Super cold when you get out of the shower btw lol. Hair felt icky but I had read to expect that, and that the conditioning rinse helped. Mixed 2 caps of rinse with 1 cup of water, per instructions & poured into hair, rubbing in best I could & rinsed out. Result: Yuck! Hair felt waxy, grungy, sticky, took forever to comb out (literally OUT) & you could see the buildup on the comb. Dried gross too. Decided maybe I should have diluted the soap on my hair as instructions suggest (after I finally found the instructions on the bottle amidst the 3000 other words lol) My face looked a few years younger though, very smooth, pretty complexion. Skin wasn't dry at all. Fiance loved it on his skin too, and his hair felt fine. DAY TWO- hair still feels nasty all day. Researched internet & found that shampoos coat your hair with bad stuff & Bronners soap strips all that away, leaving your hair in its natural state (no wonder mine felt so damaged, I thought). Soaps are alkaline so the acidic rinse (vinegar, citrus rinse, etc) is supposed to balance it out and seals the cuticle back for protection and softness. Suggested a natural deep conditioning to revitalize the hair. 3pm-applied conditioning mix to hair (2 eggs, 1/3 c coconut oil, 2T olive oil) rubbed in really good & let sit 3 hours. Loved the way my skin felt after applying it (since a lot dripped & ran down my body) & decided to start using diluted coconut oil rinse on body in shower. 6pm- rinsed mixture out with water only & mixed shikakai rinse (3/4 cap to 1 cup water this time) & let sit a couple minutes then rinsed out. Hair still felt a little sticky but not near as bad. Hair dried WAY better but became a little greasy at roots (prob because of oil conditioning), but it felt a lot better than yesterday, not such a build-up feeling. DAY THREE- Put hair in ponytail & avoided all mirrors. DAY FOUR- Have to go to town so ponytail it is. Planning to avoid mirrors again. Ordered Dr. Bronner's lavender & coconut leave in cream, supposed to add softness to hair. 10pm- showered. diluted 1-2T Bronners Soap to 16 oz warm water & washed hair, that old familiar waxy build-up feeling came right back. Rinsed with 3/4 cap Shikakai to 1 cup water. Dried ALMOST as bad as the first night. Ready to give this up as a shampoo! Still love it as body wash though :) Maybe it's still not diluted enough, some people say only a few drops... DAY 5- 11:30am- cant handle this hair another minute! Hopped in shower, washed hair with water only & rinsed with Apple Cider Vinegar Rinse (ACV rinse) 1/2 cup ACV to 1.5 cups water. Hair feels amazing while drying, but stinks to high heaven, but I don't like vinegar smells. This could work except they only advice ACV rinses once a week. Had a little body to it once dried but kinda greasy lookin again. This is gettin old. Tryin hard to stick with it! DAY 6- 9:30am- at a hotel so just washed with water to avoid using standard shampoo & risking everything I've suffered for. My hair stinks!! I would rather just use a natural shampoo/cond with a few not-so-good things in it than this all the time. It did actually look good after drying, surprisingly, probably better if I'd had a straightener. Put hair up halfway through the day cause it stinks n I'm driving. Creme was delivered when I got home. DAY 7- Giving Bronners soap one more chance as a shampoo. This makes a week. 10am- washed hair with soap, 1 tsp to 16 oz water. Rinsed with 1/2 cap Shikakai to 1 cup water. Used 1 pump of creme and smoothed through hair. It helped with the tangles a little, but build up is still visible on the hairs on the comb that have been pulled out. Dried with that same waxy feeling. Bought Renpure Organics shampoo & conditioner at HEB later (Color safe, No sulfates, parabens, dyes, gluten, phthalates, propylene glycol). DAY 8- Shampood & conditioned with Renpure, used 1/2 pump of creme. Perfection :) Conclusion- Maybe it didn't work because my hair is bleached, if your hair isn't bleached or if you're a guy with short hair this could very possibly work for you. It stripped my lowlights of their color, maybe not necessarily the soap but something in the process did :( I'm looking at the positive side though and deciding that maybe all the toxic build-up from regular shampoo & conditioners is all stripped away now, and I can use the organic brand to maintain healthy hair. I would still highly recommend it for your BODY & FACE, obviously dilute it (a few drops on a wet rag is diluted enough) I even SHAVED with it but you have to use a lot to keep a lather going. I don't use "real" deodorant, I use the Thai Crystal mineral stuff, and it works ok but I noticed it seemed to work a lot more this week, I'm giving credit to this soap which does say it works as a DEODORANT. I bathed my dog in it one day and a few fleas fell off and I found a dead tick on her later, so I will definitely continue to use it as a DOG SHAMPOO, just not as mine. Sorry it was long but I hope it was helpful.

All natural, super concentrated and very effective cleaning, all this without drying your skin.

Organic, Great scent, a little goes a long way, gets sudsy after rubbing it around. Works great as a hair, body, face cleanser.

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!

Excellent savon multi-usages avec un parfum de menthe rafraîchissant ! Il laisse une sensation de propreté et est doux pour la peau. Très concentré, donc économique. Un incontournable !

Tea Tree version, and from the first try, I knew this wasn’t just another “multi-use” product that over-promises and under-delivers. It genuinely works across multiple scenarios — and impressively well, too. I have sensitive skin, so I’m always cautious with new products, but this one has been a dream: no irritation, no dryness, and a really clean, fresh feeling every time I use it. Because it’s highly concentrated, I never use it neat. I started by diluting it in a separate bottle, which I now do routinely for different uses. Body Wash (including post-gym): I mix about 1 part Dr. Bronner’s to 5 parts water in a small squeeze bottle. It foams up beautifully on a loofah or sponge and leaves no residue. The tea tree scent is clean and calming, and the mild tingle is perfect after a run or gym session. My skin felt soothed and fresh — no tightness or dryness. Face Wash: For my face (especially prone to flare-ups), I dilute it even further — 1:10 with water. I apply it gently with my hands and rinse with cool water. It clears oil and sweat without stripping the skin. No breakouts or irritation at all, even with the essential oils. Hand Soap: I added 1:4 soap to water into a foaming soap dispenser. It works a charm, and the bottle lasts ages. Leaves hands clean but not dry, which is a big win during colder months or after gardening. Laundry (hand wash delicate items): I used a capful in a small bucket of warm water to clean gym gear. It lifted sweat odours quickly, and even after drying, there was a faint tea tree freshness without any residue or stiffness. Washing Equipment (yoga mats, shoe insoles): I diluted a 1:8 mix in a spray bottle, spritzed it on, let it sit for a minute, then wiped clean. It worked surprisingly well for my Vivobarefoot Primus 3 insoles after a muddy trail run — no lingering smell, no damage. Foot soak (post-run recovery): A few drops in a basin of warm water made for a great post-run soak. The tea tree helps with odour and offers a natural antifungal benefit. My feet felt revived — no itching or dryness after. What I love about it is how gentle it feels on the skin, even during heavy-use days when I’m showering multiple times — gym in the morning, running in the evening. The foam is creamy, not overly bubbly, and it rinses off completely. There’s no film or slippery layer afterwards. I’ve had zero reaction on the neck and arms, which are usually the first places to flare up with the wrong products. That says a lot. The smell is exactly what you’d hope for with tea tree: fresh, earthy, slightly medicinal — but not overpowering. It doesn’t linger too long, which I like. It’s enough to feel clean and energised, especially after a sweaty workout, without clashing with any other scents I might wear. The bottle itself is huge and incredibly cost-effective once you start diluting it properly. I poured off small batches into old travel-size squeeze bottles for different uses — it’s neat, and you only need a tiny amount. I marked each bottle with the intended dilution ratio so I could easily refill when needed. Another thing I noticed: there’s no tackiness or residue, even when used for tasks like cleaning shoes or wiping down equipment. I’ve used it on silicone earphone tips, shoe soles, and even to wash a cotton face mask, all without issue. Everything came out clean, fresh, and undamaged. Washing-wise, despite the packaging saying “hand wash only,” I’ve machine-washed diluted batches (socks, towels, even gym tops) and didn’t notice any negative effects. I just add a dash (roughly a tablespoon) to the drum, especially if pre-soaking or running a quick wash. Everything came out fresh, and I didn’t need to add a separate softener or scent booster. The fact that it’s vegan, fair trade, biodegradable and made from organic oils just adds to its appeal. It’s guilt-free, effective, and incredibly versatile. And the recycled bottle is sturdy, leak-free, and easy to handle despite its size.