Dr Bronners Sugar Soap was formulated after the original castile liquid soap as a way to answer some customer requests from people who used the original formula for everything, but felt that they needed something a little different. Customers were asking for the castile to be thicker, more moisturising to the skin, to be able to be used in a pump and for it to be certified organic. With this customer feedback in mind, Dr Bronners went about enhancing their existing product to meet the demands.

What's in Dr Bronners Sugar Soap

They started with the concept of the castile and started making alterations. Water was removed from the formula and replaced with white grape juice. Grape juice is a natural humectant, which means it helps your skin retain the natural moisture it already has. This ticked one box. Sugar, another humectant, was added to the formula, and it’s why sugar scrubs are so popular for body exfoliation because it’s an affordable natural ingredient that not only helps exfoliate the skin, but it helps to keep in moisture. The sugar also has the added benefit of stopping the pump from clogging. Shikakai Powder is not only a thickening agent, which ticked another box, but it’s a natural cleanser and conditioner.

When is Sugar Soap a better fit than the original castile?

We think the first ‘better fit’ is as a hand wash. There are multiple reasons. The best reason is the pump bottle, and that’s how they come to you, in a pump. The pump doesn’t clog, and it makes for easier clean hands. If you have repeatedly used castile to wash your hands multiple times during the day, you will know what it feels like for your skin to be dry at the end of the day. The sugar soap won’t do this to your skin.

When is castile soap a better option than sugar soap?

Household cleaning does not need the added benefits of the extra sugar soap ingredients, and their addition also makes sugar soap less suitable as a cleaning product because the ingredients that leave your hands feeling softer and more moisturised are actually a little more difficult to get off hard surfaces, so it makes cleaning a longer job, and who wants that!.