question re: Dr. Bronner's Peppermint soap

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uncleknife

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I have a question about the soap

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re: Dr. Bronner's Peppermint soap - I have tried it & liked it, until I remembered always being warned in scouts never to have food or candy in your tent as animals would smell it & break in for it.

Won't it attract critters/as well as bears who might smell it on you? It does smell just like peppermint candy.


Wouldn't it be safer to use the "no-rinse soap" sold at REI?

Here is a blub from their site,
http://www.rei.com/online/store/Pro...vcat=REI_SEARCH

"stay clean without dipping too deep in your water supply.
Bio-degradable concentrate is PH-balanced and contains no alcohol
Easy to use--simply dilute with water, apply with washcloth, massage to a lather and towel dry; leaves skin feeling clean and refreshed
Use full strength as shower soap, also safe to use on clothing and eating utensils
No Rinse Body Bath is used by the NASA astronauts on all space shuttle missions "
.. Made in USA.
 
I've used this stuff a lot at home from washing me to laundry and all, it's a great product!

But for outdoor use I tend to switch to unscented soaps. Bugs and other critters I think are much more likely to come to the scented stuff.
 
I love Dr. Bonner's soaps. A bit of a loon, but great soap.
It's a good idea to keep all attractive scents out of the tent if possible. I use the liquid soaps in plastic containers and drybags, but I still keep them out of the tent in bear country.
 
Good advice. I was with a group in the southern Rockies in 1988, and a bottle of Dr. Bonners left on a table was chewed open by some critter during the night. ("It ate the soap!!??")
 
When I said, keep it out of the tent, I meant ME, after washing with the soap, I will smell good enough to eat.
 
I can't comment on the attraction of Dr. Bronner's mint soap to critters, but I will say the two times I've used it out camping/hiking, it didn't attract anything. I think your biggest problem would be the soap bottle attracting some critter like what happened to Thomas Linton.

That may be the downside to the soap, but it works wonders on stained clothing, pot/pans and getting a good scrub down in the creek :D

ROCK6
 
Any soap that is fat based will get gnawed on by many critters, people even use white bar soap as catfish bait! ( I 've never tried but maybe I should)
 
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