Dr. Bronner’s Factory Tour: Bar Soap
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Come along with me on this tour of Dr. Bronner’s Pure-Castile Bar Soap production! Making quality bar soap on this large of a scale is tricky business. Liquid soap is a cinch in comparison. With liquid, you functionally throw all the ingredients in a pot and out comes the soap. Bar soap is more complicated. The ingredients all go in as a liquid, but they need to come out as a solid! That takes a lot more doing.
That’s one of the reasons I brought you my tour of our Liquid Soap Production (find it under the "Odds & Ends" Playlist) first, years ago, but put off attempting to explain to you bar soap production until now. Honestly, it’s a bit nerdy, but I have full confidence that you will appreciate it just as much as I do. After all, chemistry is gorgeous.
Because bar soap production happens inside a closed system, I can't show you the chemistry in action, so I'll have to describe it for you. Inside the tubular reactor in the video (does "tubular" make anyone else think of the Ninja Turtles?), I want you to envision a collision between oils and alkali which blasts apart all the molecules so that they reorganize as soap, glycerin, and water, with nothing leftover. It's so efficiently beautiful! A few more ingredients get mixed in to the liquid before it begins the process of drying out. First, most of the water content is extracted in a vacuum chamber as a vapor. The water vapor runs through the cyclone separater so that any soap content that got caught in it can be pulled out and the water can be treated for reuse. The remaining soap then gets cut into "noodles," which you see in the video, and it continues to dry as it cures in the supersacks. Personally, I think the soap noodles look like cheese curds.
The essential oils don't get added until the finishing line. When you buy essential oils for home use, they usually come in a 1 ounce bottle, or possibly smaller. We buy them in 55 gallon drums, which is equal to 7040 ounce bottles, and can cost over $20,000!
So sit back and enjoy! Be hypnotized by the honeycomb screens. Get mesmerized by the stamper. I hope you’ll agree with me that soapmaking is really nifty!
For more on green cleaning & body care, including ways to use our family’s Castile Soaps, visit my website at LisaBronner.com. Shop Dr. Bronner’s products online at DrBronner.com.
The deeper I dive into the Dr. Bronner rabbit hole, the deeper in love I fall. Thank you for making this video, Lisa!
Lisa - What a cool video - your company looks like fantastic fun and very engaged employees - Well Done!!
I’m going back to using your products, including your shaving products. It’s more than just being clean, it’s about using natural organic ingredients on our bodies. Thanks for the tour. I enjoyed it very much.
Welcome back, Kelala!
@@GoingGreenwithLisaBronner hi Lisa, did you reply back to me about your age? I know I’m not supposed to ask window ages, but just curious, please reply.
LISA, ALL OF US HAVE MISSED YOU. HOPE YOU HAD A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HERE'S TO A WONDERFUL NEW YEAR.
Thank you, Jeni! Though I've been quiet on the video side of things, I've been active over on Facebook and my website. Join me there!
Good morning Lisa !
Dr. Bronner’s soap is awesome!❤️
I love this soap . I know it’s a bar soap, but the scent , leather , and cleansing qualities are really enjoyable . I found it to be very moisturizing
I definitely recommend it!! ❤️👍👍👍👍
Thanks, Marisol! It's great to hear it works well for you!
Wow!! Just got the rose bar soap from the store today and it makes me appreciate it even more after watching this video! All the hard work and love that’s put into it! Beautiful! This is the only brand of soap I have used since my crunchy, all natural friend from college told me about it. But, I’ve only used the liquid soaps for over a decade and now, finally trying the bar soap! Very excited! The rose smell reminds me of the good college days, very nostalgic! It’s like a treat to myself to use these high quality ingredients on my body!! Thank you Lisa for this wonderful tour!
Thanks for watching and for being a long time customer of my family's soaps!
@@GoingGreenwithLisaBronner my pleasure!
I have been a Dr Bronner's user ever since I got turned onto it in the '60s. I love the direction you have taken the company. Peace, Lisa, David, and the amazing workforce.
Thank you for the kind words and decades of support, William!
Thank you Dr. Bronner's for continuing to make a good quality and healthy soap, we use it and love it.
Thanks for your kind words, Allie!
I've loved your soap since the 1970s, starting with the liquid peppermint soap when it had paper labels. I use the unscented bar soap daily, and have recently tried the citrus--wonderful. Loyal user for life.
Thanks for the decades of support, Ki! The Citrus is right up there as one of my favorites too!
This tour gave renewed strength to our dream. Thank you.
Thank you for the tour; I’ve been using your soap for about 15 years and love it, good for our body, good for the farmers and for Mother Earth.
Great job 👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Hi Silvia- Thanks for watching and for your long-time support of our family business!
my favorite brand esp the peppermint!! its AMAZING at killing pests in plants. Love your for all this!
I'm so glad our soap is working for you! Thanks for sharing!
Wow, Lisa what a great tour! I've been obsessed with everything Dr. Bronner for nearly 4 decades. After a shower I spray the tile in the shower with it and the grout remains clean and free of mold and mildew.
Thanks, Trent! Glad you enjoyed it. It was fun to make.
Hi Lisa, I bought my first botttle last week and I feel the difference already in my scalp, hair and skin. I wish I had used your product years ago but it’s never too late. Thank you and your family!
Hi T.H. - I'm glad to hear it's been a help to you! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much for posting, Lisa! Absolutely love your videos and I’m a proud buyer of your family soap.
Thanks so much, Michael!
Thank you for this video! It was my huge found 2 years ago on eBay. And last year it went viral here in Norway. I use it gladly and love your company. I wish to be a part of it somehow 🥰 standing for what I believe is an amazing product.
Best luck and hope to see much more and learn so I can spread the good word 🎉
Thank you for this virtual tour of your line! I’m just a small time soap maker, dreaming of the future. I’d say y’all have the process down to an art!
Hi Lisa
Enjoyed the video. Great made in America products for over70 years! I've used them since 1970s. Now my daughter is also a customer.
Deirdre from Florida
We so appreciate our long-time customers! Thank you for passing the tradition along to your daughter.
Thank you Lisa I love the shop that’s the only stop that I use on my body my clothes I love it thank you and God bless your family❤
Thank you, Valerie!
WOW, fascinating process! I just adore your bars, such creamy lather. I am very curious when/how you add the hemp oil though as it isn't mentioned at all in this video and it's literally a big part of your labeling that it has US grown hemp oil. Please help us understand, thx
Hi Dorothy- Thanks for knowing our products so well! I realize I didn't call out the hemp addition! At about 2:20, you can see a pipe coming down that is labeled "Additives." This contains the hemp seed oil, jojoba oil, and mixed tocopherols. They go in after the saponification and before the drying process begins.
Unfortunately we vote with our dollars now a days, if we can’t get government to listen we have to support the people who are doing the right thing in a country gone mad with greed. Thank you for maintaining your grandfathers ethos, this company is proof to all the naysayers that it is possible to be make money without harming the environment or our fellow humans. We shouldn’t have to prove it, but at every turn of their argument against going green or upholding human rights there’s been Dr. Bronners showing them that they’re wrong, there’s a better way, thank you for being a little light in a very long dark tunnel. I’m slowly converting my family, they’ll come around eventually, until then everyone gets an almond soap bar in their stocking!
YO Lisa appreciate this video really loved watching how these soap bars are made very satisfying. Thank you and your family for all the hard work and keeping Dr.Bronner ALiVE !
ALL-ONE or NONE! GODLINESS is CLEANLINESS
Thanks for the kind words!
Color Matching Soap Caddy Set :: A color for each of the fragrances to match the bar soap wrapper color. - - > and thanks for the WorldClass video and all your good work.
Hi George- What a fun idea! I'll pass that along to our team. Thanks for watching!
Love this very informative video 😀
Thanks for watching, Renee!
I have a question...why are the soaps milled first
I'm not sure which stage you're referring to, so let me know if I don't answer your question here. As you saw in the video, bar soap is a two-stage process. In the first stage, we make the bar base, and the final step of that is the base being pushed through a screen and cut into noodles, similarly to the three milling stages that happen later in the bar pressing process. However, in this first stage, the soap is pushed through the screen not to mill it, but to create the noodles which then dry and cure. Later in the second stage, the essential oils are added to these noodles and the soap is milled three times (mixed thoroughly and pushed through the mesh) in order to mix in the essential oils, eliminate air pockets, and create a super smooth, dense, long-lasting bar soap.
I love the "unscented" bronner's soap... but get so mad that almost every store that sells them, puts them right next to the "scented" soaps. So, the smells get absorbed into the unscented. I have to drive across town to one location that stocks the unscented away from the other soaps.
Hi McGill- It's true. When you're not used to scent, you really notice even light scents! You might try ordering from our webstore and see how that works out for you. If you sign up to my newsletter on LisaBronner.com , you'll receive a code for 15% off your next purchase. Or head straight to the webstore at bit.ly/ShopDRBs.
@@GoingGreenwithLisaBronner thanks for the info. I'll head over there.
Yeah very true...e.g if the unscented bar soap is with lavender one, the unscented one will start to smell a bit like lavender...I hate it when stores/venders do that..they should use their common sense and keep it separate.
Sorry, I am like a cat I never take showers. 😅 Just kidding! This is a fascinating process and really complex machines there.
Haha! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
If we make the soap in the cold way, how many days will the soap be ready for use and marketing?
Hi there - Unfortunately, I do not have experience making cold-pour soap, so I don’t have guidance for you on this.
Hi, is the bar soap form as condensed or as strong as the liquid form? How long does one bar last typically compared to liquid?
Hi there- Check out my comment under the Many Magical Uses of Bar Soap video. It's really not possible to say how long a Castile Bar Soap will last because there is so much variety in how it's used. The same applies to our Castile Liquid Soap. But both soaps are super concentrated and because a little goes a long way, they both last a good long time. Here again is the link to the article on my website that dives into the differences between our Liquid and Bar Castile Soaps: www.lisabronner.com/liquid-vs-bar-in-dr-bronners-pure-castile-soap/
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Marvelous 👍 I wold like see your factory
I'm sorry, but we're able to give tours our manufacturing plant.
I use 20% liquid dr bronners and 80% water in a foaming soap dispenser for washing my hands and it never dries them out
Excellent!
@@GoingGreenwithLisaBronner will the preservative still work with all that added water?
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Country name?
Hi there- This is in San Diego, California in the United States.
Do you have a favorite scent?
Hi TG- I have two! Almond and Citrus.
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