Closer to us than even our clothes are the products we use on our bodies. They become part of us. What’s in them? Are the ingredients safe? What can I learn from the labels? Learn all about ingredients to look for and avoid, how to recognize greenwashing, what regulations are in place, and where consumers and professionals must do their own research. Become an empowered user and consumer of all manner of personal care and salon products.

Emanuel Bronner, founder of Dr. Bronner’s, was my grandfather. My family is now in its 5th generation of soapmaking.
I am deeply motivated in my life and writing by the idea of stewardship: taking care of what has been entrusted to me and leaving things better than I found them.
As an avid lifelong reader, I wrote my first book in 2023, Soap & Soul: A Practical Guide to Minding Your Home, Your Body, and Your Spirit with Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps. Part companion guide to using my family’s soaps and part green living how-to with a good dose of stories from my green journey and memories of my grandfather and my whole Bronner family.
I taught high school English and journalism. I still see myself functionally as a teacher.
I’m a married mom of three almost-grown kids, of whom I, at 5’8”, am the second shortest.
Though raised as a city girl in Los Angeles, I embrace my current country life with many good things growing, evening serenades of distant livestock, and gloriously big horizons.