All-One Blog

Legalize Cannabis! Support Justice, Equity, and Diversity – Now!

January 28, 2022 by Astarae Metcalf

This Season, We’re Donating to Cannabis Organizations of Your Choice At Dr. Bronner’s, we’re working to connect you, our customers, with the nonprofits we support. We now have a widget on our webstore that engages customers in our giving. This platform allows customers to select a featured nonprofit to receive 10% of their total purchase amount, at no additional cost—You Shop, We Give—on DrBronner.com! From now through March, we’re featuring organizations advancing policy and social equity in the cannabis space.... Continue Reading

Remembering Joyful Hemp Warrior Steve Levine

January 07, 2022 by David Bronner

We’re sad to relay that Steve Levine, former President of the Hemp Industries Association and rock star hemp ganja joyful warrior, left us on January 1st. He also served as a boardmember for Vote Hemp and worked at Dr. Bronner’s as our trade show director for many years. We dug up the DEA’s lawn and got arrested together, where his gentlemanly presence was like an iron fist in a velvet glove. As our shovels said: “Reefer Madness Shall Be Buried!... Continue Reading

All-One Mutual Aid in 2021!

December 17, 2021 by Lilia Letsch

Dr. Bronner’s Covid-19 product donation program—which we affectionately also call our “Mutual Aid” donation project—continues to distribute Organic Hand Sanitizer and Pure-Castile Soap to help community members in need. Our effort began in March 2020 and was inspired by a request from Urban Justice’s Safety Net project in New York City, when these crucial hygiene supplies were becoming increasingly unaffordable, or unavailable altogether. Since March 2020, we have donated over 145,000 units of each product to groups supporting at-risk communities across... Continue Reading

Kimmie’s Spiced Magic Hot Chocolate

December 17, 2021 by Kim D'Amico

What better way to get into the holiday spirit than hot cocoa on a cold winter day? As the All-One chef here at Dr. Bronner’s, my job is to bring people joy. Whether it’s coordinating daily vegan lunches for Dr. Bronner’s staff or sharing recipes with our All-One community, my passion is using food to nourish our souls & the environment around us. To me, this means incorporating the purest regenerative organic and fair trade ingredients wherever possible. With the... Continue Reading

Keeping What’s Sacred, Sacred Through Unity

November 23, 2021 by Miriam Volat

This conservation initiative is an intergenerational bridge. The wise ones are getting old and they still know about nature and stories and the natural ways and songs. We need to be the bridge for sacred knowledge—it is of essence and we have a responsibility to be this bridge and pass things on for a brighter tomorrow for our children and grandchildren. Continue Reading

Dr. Bronner’s Donates to Environmental Organizations of Your Choice

November 12, 2021 by Sara Tajik

From now until December 31, 2021, Dr. Bronner’s will donate 10% of your purchase to the environmental organization of your choice when you shop on drbronner.com. We’ve selected four nonprofits working to advance regenerative organic agriculture, each with a unique approach benefiting the livelihood of our farmers, animals, and Spaceship Earth! Why is Dr. Bronner’s so passionate about regenerative organic agriculture and how it can benefit the environment? We know this type of farming sequesters atmospheric carbon, helping to mitigate... Continue Reading

Bar Soap Dilutions Cheat Sheet

October 29, 2021 by Lisa Bronner

This post originally appeared on Going Green with Lisa Bronner. Like the forgotten middle child, the Dr. Bronner’s Pure-Castile Bar Soap has languished without a usage cheat sheet for years while the Pure-Castile Liquid Soap and Sal Suds Cleaner hoarded the attention. No more. Bar soap aficionados, this one’s for you! Whether you champion the bar soap because of cost, packaging, travel convenience or availability, this Bar Soap Cheat Sheet will help you use the bar soap for almost every... Continue Reading

How We Make Dr. Bronner’s Magic All-One Chocolate

October 04, 2021 by Michael Bronner

Have you ever wondered where chocolate comes from? How Dr. Bronner’s yummy Magic All-One Chocolate is made? Rich, dark, wonderfully delicious chocolate, with its magical, mystical tastes and alchemical effects? Well, let me share a few chocolate making secrets with you… Food of the Gods The cocoa plant was given the scientific name Theobroma Cacao by Linnaeus—Theobroma means “food of the gods” in Greek, and Cacao derives from the Mayan and Nahuatl words for cocoa. Some research suggests that eating... Continue Reading

Let’s Strategically Raise the Minimum Wage for All Workers—with Paid Overtime for Farmworkers

September 24, 2021 by David Bronner

With the incredible success of the movement to raise the minimum wage in both blue and red states in recent years, the national movement has called for raising the federal minimum wage to $15. I appreciate going for as high as we can get; but I’m concerned by the fact that the only states where we have been able to raise to this level have relatively high costs of living.Continue Reading

Genetic Engineering of Major Crops: the Most Recent Depressing Episode

September 23, 2021 by David Bronner

In May this year, a Research Entomologist with the USDA contacted me and shared this message: I remember your full-page ad in the New Yorker several years ago when you predicted the disaster with dicamba-resistant transgenic soybeans. And guess what, it came true. Continue Reading

Fight for what's right!

Animal Justice leads the legal fight for animals in Canada’s courts, pushes for stronger laws, and works to ensure that existing laws are enforced and that industries are held accountable. Dr. Bronner’s has supported Animal Justice through our All-One Canada Initiative since 2020. We spoke with Camille Labchuk, animal rights lawyer and executive director of Animal Justice, about the impact the organization is striving for.Continue Reading

Animal Outlook is fighting against factory farming through powerful investigations, litigation and policy change, and bold advocacy for plant-based living. Learn about the organization’s work to expose and challenge the cruel practices of animal agriculture, and inspire a more compassionate, sustainable future for all animals—including humans. Dr. Bronner’s has supported the group since 2013. We spoke with Animal Outlook’s new Executive Director, Ben Williamson about his leadership and their latest efforts.Continue Reading

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Bronner’s launched a rapid-response donation effort to distribute hygiene products to high-risk communities—and found itself positioned to support a fast-growing movement that re-popularized the concept of mutual aid. Five years later, Dr. Bronner’s Mutual Aid Product Donation Program has supported 347 grassroots groups across the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico with hundreds of thousands of units of soap and hand sanitizer. This article explores the program’s evolution, key partnerships, and the deep impact of community-led solidarity efforts.Continue Reading

Together with CouldYou?, we launched a pilot program at Serendipalm—our Regenerative Organic Certified™ palm oil production partner in Ghana—to provide menstrual cups and education to women and girls in the community. What we witnessed was far more than product distribution—it was an advancement of dignity, agency, and hope.Continue Reading

With major cuts to USAID announced in early 2025, much of its support for sustainable, community-led development is now in jeopardy. As the agency’s future remains unclear, Dr. Bronner’s is deepening its commitment to fair trade, regenerative agriculture, and social justice—showing how businesses can help fill the gap and advance the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.Continue Reading

Earlier this year, Dr. Bronner’s announced that we will not renew our B Corp Certification when it expires later this year. Our announcement followed a multi-year campaign by Dr. Bronner’s, and many other companies, calling on B Lab to meaningfully improve the B Corp standard. Based on draft revisions to the standard B Lab released previously, we knew that V7, once finally released, would still fail to prevent the dilution of the B Corp mission and protect the integrity of the certification.Continue Reading

In this reflective essay, David Bronner traces his personal journey confronting his own aggressive masculine ego, embracing gender expansiveness, and standing in solidarity with trans and nonbinary communities. Through stories of psychedelic insights, family, and activist spaces like Burning Man, he explores how the rising visibility of gender-diverse people offers hope in a time of cultural backlash.Continue Reading

David Bronner reflects on his journey from participating in an Indigenous ceremony in Wirikuta to co-launching the Regenerative Organic Certification. He explores how Indigenous wisdom, spiritual ecology, and regenerative agriculture offer pathways to restore right relationship with not only the animals we raise and consume, but nature at large. Continue Reading

Across the country, organic farmers are facing an unprecedented crisis. The USDA has frozen critical funding, halting payments on legally binding contracts and grants. This reckless decision is creating financial turmoil and threatening the livelihoods of farmers, small businesses, and rural communities. Here's how you can help!Continue Reading