Go onto the Dr. Bronner’s website and check out his history. He was quite the guy. From an old German Jewish soap-making family, parents killed at Auschwitz, educated with a degree in chemistry and a Master’s rating in soapmaking from the German guild. He was self-educated in the Essene faith, which is the pantheistic, occult branch of Judaism (Kaballah is part of this)He was considered a madman because of his extreme anti-war stance. He opposed fascism and communism, loathed big government, and they tried to brainwash him and failed. His family continues to make the best soap products in the world, in an all organic, anti-corporate, charitable business that is a model for progressive industry. You gotta love them.