How Dr. Bronner's Magical Soaps Are Fighting Toxic GMO Crop Production.

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Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 1 November 2014

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

As you may know from reading my article on "How To Detox Your Home", if I can't eat something without it killing me, I don't smear it on my body either. From liquid soaps, to my bar soap, to lip balms to lotions, I've been using products from Dr. Bronner's as one of my main personal care products sources to follow this simple rule.

Unlike most commercial soapmakers, who distill the glycerin out of their soaps to sell separately, Dr. Bronner's retain it in their soaps for its superb moisturizing qualities. They use natural vitamin E from sunflower seeds and citric acid from fermented tapioca to protect freshness. They don't add any chelating agents, dyes, whiteners or synthetic fragrances, and instead use pure and powerful high-quality certified organic essential oils. All their soaps are biodegradable and nature-friendly and their bottles are made from 100% post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic.

In today's podcast, I interview David Bronner, the president of Dr. Bronners, and a guy who has been arrested for hemp activism, written a recently polarizing Huffington Post article on GMO's , and who recently championed a drive towards labeling GMO foods in my own home state of Washington, a drive that unfortunately lost by narrow margins, but is now being revived in another form, which you'll learn all about in today's episode, including: -The amazing story of the original Dr. Bronner... -Why there are over 30,000 words on the label of Dr. Bronner's soaps... -What’s in Dr. Bronner’s soap... -Why not all coconut oil is created equal... -Why David Bronner recently penned this controversial article in Huffington Post on GMO’s... -What you can do to stop the toxic production of GMO's on our farmed crops...

Do you have questions, comments or feedback about Dr. Bronners or about GMO labeling? Leave your thoughts at BenGreenfieldFitness.com, be sure to check out all of Dr. Bronner's products by clicking here, and visit OregonRightToKnow.org to help fight GMO crop production, to cast your vote, to donate and to stop the spread of toxic herbicides.

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0:30.0	Hey folks, this is Ben Greenfield and as you may know from reading an article that I wrote
0:51.7	last year on how to detox your home and your body, basically if I can't eat something
0:58.4	without it killing me, I generally don't smear it on my body either.
1:04.7	And from liquid soaps to my bar soap to the lip balms that my kids use to lotions, one
1:12.3	of the companies that I kind of use as a go-to source for the things that I do smear on
1:17.5	my body or in my hair is this company called Dr. Bronners.
1:23.3	And Dr. Bronners is kind of a unique company.
1:26.8	They do things like use natural vitamin E from sunflower seeds and citric acid from fermented
1:33.3	tapioca for freshness and they don't use things like keylating agents and dyes and white
1:39.1	anders and synthetic fragrances that use like essential oils for example as a fragrance
1:45.0	for their products.
1:46.9	All of their soaps are biodegradable and nature friendly, their bottles are made from recycled
1:52.7	plastic and also have all sorts of weird phrases written all over them which I'll talk
1:58.8	a little bit more about here on in today's episode.
2:02.6	But today I've actually got the president of Dr. Bronners on the call with me and his
2:08.7	name is David Bronner.
2:10.1	He's a guy who's been arrested multiple times for hemp activism.
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