Couldn't help but notice that Ms. Duckboots mentioned Dr. Bronner's soap in the "String Cleaning" thread. (What's she doin' messing in a picker's thread anyway?) Being a child of the sixties (and just as child-like in the nineties) I well remember Dr. Bronner's. If you aren't familiar with the product, put on your sandals and peace jewelry and I'll tell you about it. A plastic bottle about 10 inches high full of soap....and with hundreds of thousands of words in the tiniest printing imaginable all over the label. Absolutely EVERY possible space was filled with the most bizarre pseudo-religious babblings. Now I'm not trying to be sacriligious. It's just that nothing made any sense. Interspersed with the judaic/new-age/christian/mystical stuff were instructions on how to use Dr. Bronner's for absolutely everything from: mouthwash(ugh!) to floor cleaning to upholstery de-odorizing.

One day while visiting Sandy and Caroline at Folk-Legacy, we met Ralph Bronner, son of the extremely eccentric Dr. himself. Ralph travels the country selling soap and singing songs to kids, and is a charmer. He explained that his father didn't have a great command of English, hence that's why nothing on the bottles made any sense. He sang us a couple of songs, I gave him a copy of "Lifeline" and he gave us 4 bottles of soap (including the cherished "Eucalyptus"). The soap lasts forever, or at least it seems that way, I just finished the last drop of "Wintergreen" last week.

Anyone else "get nekkid" with Dr. Bronner's.

Rick