HEALTH IS OUR GREATEST WEALTH! Dr. Bronner's Wild Ride to Founding a Soap Empire! 3,000 WORDS, LARGELY al INCOMPREHENSIBLE, / : AND CHANCES ARE You il) HAVE ACOPY OFITIN WY VOURHOn: Nae _BATHROO! UNDER | YOUR KITCHEN SINK, /BRONNER CAME TOTHE U.S, FROM GERMANY 1N 1927 AND BUILT SOAP FACTORIES INTHE yp TH MOMENT | HAVE $7000070 PROTE Yy\ THREE MOTHERLESS CHIL ON THAT FARM IN WISCONSIN I)DBECOME THESERVANTY AND SO | LEARNED, BEGINNING Na IN 1944, THAT WHAT CAUSED ALL © THE TROUBLE ON THIS EARTH THE ' PAST 2,000 YEARS IS THE LACK OF RABBIS, THE FAILURE OF RABEIS TOTEACH EVERY TWELVE-YEAR- OLD BOY ONGOD'S SPACESHIP , EARTH THE MORAL ABC, WITHOUT WHICH NONE SURVIVE FREE. NY * MN) FROM THE DOCUMENTAR “DR. BRONNER'S MAGIC SOAPBOX,’ 2006OR. BRONNER HIT THE ROAD TO LECTURE, | LEAVING HIS CHILDREN WITH STRANGERS | |, ORIN ORPHANAGES. HE SOLD SOAP ON || THE SIDE, WITH HIS 13 HOLY TENETS PRINTED THE LABEL,IN 1956, HIS CHILDREN JOINED THE BUSINESS. | SOON AFTER, BRONNERS SOAP WAS EMBRACED By THE BURGEONING HIPPIE MOVEMENT, UNPERTURBED By THE MANIFESTO ON THE LABEL AND DRAWN TO ae BONER potas oF GonaaalicTHE SOAP 1S MADE FROM ALL-NATURAL, FAIR, TRADE INGREDIENTS. THEIR BOTTLES ARE MADE FROM RECYCLED NON-PETROLEUM DEATH IN 1997, HIS SOAP BUSINESS HAD BECOME AN EMPIRE, FOUND IN CHAIN STORES AND HiPPIE BATHROOMS ALIKE, ALL BUILT ON HIS MISSION TO PREACH THE MESSAGE.Uy Ly cD YT” BRONNER RAN HIS COMPANY, “ALL-ONE-GOD-FAITH, INC,‘AS A =~ jue TAX-ExE MPT RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION UNTIL 1985, WHEN THE IRS FOUND THEM To BE NONCOMPLIANT. AFTER PAYING $1.3 MILLION IN BACK TAXES THEY REORGANIZED AS A FOR-PROFIT COMPANY, Now RUN BY BRONNER'S GRANDCHILOREN.