# Dr. Bronner **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 1, 2002, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-bronner/116918 "2002-07-01T22:28:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-bronner/116918/1 "2002-07-01T22:28:41Z")
Is he still alive? They still sell his soaps? ---
**Author:** ![Taran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Taran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taran)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-bronner/116918/2 "2002-07-01T22:33:49Z")
They _do_ still sell his soaps…I know because a school project of mine was disqualified for being too similar to the stuff he’d patented. As for the man himself, this page says: > [@](#): > > The Bronner Family pledges to continue to responsibly produce the fine ecological soaps you have loved and lathered with for over 50 years, while sharing our profits with our workers and worthwhile causes worldwide. …which implies that the good Doctor himself is dead, or at least not in the soapmaking business anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-bronner/116918/3 "2002-07-01T22:39:07Z")
According to the wrapper of my Peppermint & Hemp Oil soap, Doc Bonnor passed in 1997. Too bad, the world needs more loonies in it to make it interesting. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-bronner/116918/4 "2002-07-01T23:41:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Inky- \* > \*\*According to the wrapper of my Peppermint & Hemp Oil soap, Doc Bonnor passed in 1997. Too bad, the world needs more loonies in it to make it interesting. \*\* The World Wide Web has made it possible to access the loonies’ messages free of cost. It case you are unaware, it is worth spending some time at [www.timecube.com](http://www.timecube.com) – to read about “NATURE’S HARMONIC SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY TIME CUBE”, and learn that "You are educated stupid and evil by stupid evil educators. Academic ban of Time Cube free speech debate rights is unconstitutinal, undemocratic and unadulterated tyrannical. " ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-bronner/116918/5 "2002-07-02T01:07:50Z")
When I first saw that TimeCube page I did think of Dr Bronner’s soaps. . . I spend quite some time standing in the shower puzzling over those manifestoes. … so. . . can someone explain his, ahem, ideology to me? I can’t make any sense of it. Is there a translation key somewhere? Sort of an Old Testament Unitarian Kabbalist kook or what? Did he belong to a particular sect, loosely? ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-bronner/116918/6 "2002-07-02T01:26:01Z")
Just gotta put in a link to Cecil’s column on the doctor. Of course, it was written long before Bronner left us, so it doesn’t directly bear on the OP. [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3\_386.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_386.html) ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-bronner/116918/7 "2002-07-02T06:15:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by whitetho \* > \*\*"You are educated stupid and evil by stupid evil educators. Academic ban of Time Cube free speech debate rights is unconstitutinal, undemocratic and unadulterated tyrannical. " \*\* Interesting. Dr. Bonner’s son is a schoolteacher.