{"id":245219,"date":"2023-01-12T22:06:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T22:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/245219\/"},"modified":"2023-01-12T22:06:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T22:06:47","slug":"dr-bronners-factory-tour-bar-soap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/245219\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Bronner\u2019s Factory Tour: Bar Soap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zKRII5XDUSo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nCome along with me on this tour of Dr. Bronner\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one of the reasons I brought you my tour of our Liquid Soap Production first, years ago, but put off attempting to explain to you bar soap production until now. Honestly, it\u2019s a bit nerdy, but I have full confidence that you will appreciate it just as much as I do. After all, chemistry is gorgeous. <\/p>\n<p>Because bar soap production happens inside a closed system, I can&#8217;t show you the chemistry in action, so I&#8217;ll have to describe it for you. Inside the tubular reactor in the video (does &#8220;tubular&#8221; 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&#8217;s so efficiently beautiful! A few more ingredients get mixed in to the liquid before it begins the process of drying out.<\/p>\n<p>The essential oils don&#8217;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!<\/p>\n<p>So sit back and enjoy! Be hypnotized by the honeycomb screens. Get mesmerized by the stamper. I hope you\u2019ll agree with me that soapmaking is really nifty!<\/p>\n<p>For more on green cleaning &#038; body care, including ways to use our family\u2019s Castile Magic Soaps, visit my website at LisaBronner.com. Shop Dr. Bronner\u2019s products online at DrBronner.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come along with me on this tour of Dr. Bronner\u2019s Pure-Castile Bar Soap production! Making quality bar soap on <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2755],"tags":[2780,2825],"class_list":{"0":"post-245219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-body-care","8":"tag-body-soap","9":"tag-2825"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}