Re:OT: Another movie review - Dr Bronner's Peppermint Castile soap

[Guest guest]

Here's another one: It's a news story about how a police drug field

test always gives false positive results on organic pure soap (not on

soap made out of petrochemicals). Very interesting.A guy got arrested

because the drug test gave a false positive test for HGB in Dr.

Bronner's liquid soap.

Jocelyn

http://www.drbronner.com/soap_test.html

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> I'll bet most of you are familiar with Dr Bronner's Peppermint

> Castile soap. Here's a review of a movie about Dr Bronner. (I always

> thought it was Bonner. Guess I never saw the " r " in his name).

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> http://movies.go.com/dr-bronners-magic-soapbox/r892714/documentary

> OUR REVIEW

> by Dave White

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> Who's in It: Dr. Emil Bronner (archive footage), Ralph Bronner

> The Basics: A documentary about the grooviest soap on earth, Dr.

> Bronner's Castile Peppermint Soap, and its kooky, visionary creator,

> Emanuel Bronner. He escaped a mental hospital in the late 1940s,

> stopped in Las Vegas, won $400 gambling and then made it to Los

> Angeles, where he developed his product that's now a multimillion-

> dollar-a-year business.

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> What's the Deal? It's a pretty typically structured documentary with

> lots of talking heads attached to long beards and rasta caps; but

> it's the subject matter - the most atypical super-eccentric CEO

> around and his ranting, religious-like zeal for world peace and human

> unity and cleanliness above all else - that really elevates it above

> the doc pack.

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> My Own Personal Dr. Bronner's Testimonial: I had no idea Dr.

> Bronner's Soap was considered a hippie product when I first bought

> some. I just liked the idea of peppermint soap. And the born-again

> Christian, anti-evolution, college biology professor who recommended

> it to me was no hippie, either. But as it turns out, every stoner on

> Earth thinks this is the best soap there is. And I'm guessing that's

> because it's so thorough and strong that it cleans off the smell of

> all that pot. Anyway, it's great soap. You should buy some. Just make

> sure you follow the directions on the manifesto-crammed label

> ( " DILUTE! DILUTE! DILUTE! " ) or your " undercarriage " will sting like

> crazy.

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> Best Part: Aside from the archive footage of the late Dr. Bronner

> ranting about how we're " all one, " there's a great moment when his

> son, a man who seems to have inherited his father's gift for boundary-

> pushing interpersonal communication, visits the mental hospital the

> inventor was housed in, where he's met by an administrator who seems

> a little embarrassed by the place's snake-pit past.

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> And Here's Your Proof: The hippie guy interviewee who lists his

> favorite influential people in the world as Zappa, Dennis

> Hopper, Lennon and Dr. Bronner.

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> Carl Grimes

> Healthy Habitats LLC

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