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What a band and what an album.
Again, you CAN'T go wrong purchasing this album.
From strength to strength.
1. Soldier Of Fortune- Typical loose and powerful Thin Lizzy. Love those guitars!
2. Bad Reputation - Listening to Scott Gorham play on Bad Reputation seals the deal.
3. Opium Trail - One of the few leads Brian Robertson plays. Solid.
4. South Bound - Incredible. One song I NEVER get tired of playing at loud levels
5. Dancing In The Moonlight - Surprisingly my least favorite track, and it's still great!
6. Killer Without A Cause - Powerful and pounding. Didn't Iron Maiden lift the riff on this one? Well, kinda : )
7. Downtown Sundown- Great tune, Slowing down the pace. Awesome bass work throughout.
8. That Woman's Gonna Break Your Heart - A slight hiccup. Not bad but not great either.
9. Dear Lord- Phil exorcising his demons. Back to form again!
A solid chuck of 70's hard rock music.
Almost 30 yrs later this album shows the power and intensity these guys had.
Go get all of Thin Lizzy';s stuff and see what quality is all about.
Get hooked now!It's not too late!
Phil Lynott RIP. I wish we still had you with us. Your music has meant so much to so many people.
Here is Thin Lizzy again offering very diverse material, songs that kick you in your butt ("Bad Reputation", "Opium Trail", "Soldier of Fortune" and "Killer Without A Cause"), what could be considered religious songs ("Downtown Sundown" and "Dear Lord", songs I find incredibly heartfelt, beautiful, and at times, awkward. God bless you, Phil), and pop songs with great guitar licks ("Southbound", "That Women's Gonna Break Your Heart" and "Dancing in The Moonlight", my least favorite track on the album). Not what you would expect from what everyone was saying was a "hard rock" band.
When I consider that Thin Lizzy released the following 4 STUDIO albums consecutively...."Jailbreak" (1976), "Johnny the Fox" (1976), "Bad Reputation" (1977) and "Black Rose" (1979), and when I listen to them now, scratches and all, ....I think that Thin Lizzy is still my favorite rock band, and I wish to god I could play guitar like Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson, and be as cool as Phil Lynott. These 4 albums are rock nirvana to me.
If push came to shove, I consider "Bad Reputation" their best album. It is more Scott Gorham than Brian Robertson, and for that,I give it up to Scott Gorham. But I wish the two would have stayed together, especially when you hear them together on "That Woman's Gonna Break Your Heart".Read more ›
OK! To pick a favorite song I would have to go with "That Woman's Gonna Break Your Heart", which is a wonderful ballad. There's the almost bluesy "Dancing in the Moonlight" and "Southbound". Then there are great rockers like "Soldier of Fortune", "Bad Reputation", and "Killer Without a Cause". Then there is "Dear Lord", which strangely enough is stupendous even though it is full of doubt and concern. A listen to this disc should provide almost everyone with a song they could like, or, maybe like me you'd hock all your Springsteen to have something this good in your collection!
After the bad taste the last 3 Lizzy Deluxe Editions seem to leave in many fans mouths (advertised as new remasters, Universal simply used the 1996 versions and didn't change the booklets or adverts) - I'm glad to say this reissue of Lizzy's much-loved 8th album "Bad Reputation" is a real improvement on the former 1996 outing - and packs some nice surprises in the bonus department too.
Tracks 1 to 9 are the original LP "Bad Reputation" released 2 September 1977 on Vertigo Records 9102 016 in the UK and on Mercury SRM1-1186 in the USA. It peaked at Number 4 in the UK album charts and at 49 in the US. This June 2011 'Expanded Edition' CD on Universal/Mercury 2772693 adds on 6 bonus tracks and breaks down as follows (57:24 minutes):
Tracks 10 to 15 are "Killer Without A Cause", "Bad Reputation", "That Woman's Gonna Break Your Heart", "Dancing In Moonlight (It's Caught Me In Its Spotlight)" and "Downtown Sundown" - all are Previously Unreleased - a BBC Session Recorded 1 August 1977 (no other details provided).
Track 16 is "Me And The Boys (Soundcheck)" - this version is Previously Unreleased - no details are provided as to where or when this live recording was made...
The expanded 16-page booklet has new liner notes (doesn't say who wrote them) and features the album's original inner sleeve along with some new live photos of the band in both colour and black and white. It's nice, but oddly doesn't reference the bonus tracks at all except to list their titles (I mean 'Soundcheck' - where, when?)
The remaster was carried out by ANDY PEARCE and MATT WORTHAM at Wired Masters in the UK in 2010 - and the sound is much improved.Read more ›
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Bad/Azz Album Cover w/ the Tunes to match! These guys were simply the Coolest ever!Published 3 months ago by Jones-Z
dancin' in the moonlight is one of the best songs Lynott and company wrotePublished 10 months ago by Amazon Customer
Starting with "Fighting" Thin Lizzy progressively got better and better album by album. This one's particularly good and shows a huge leap in production value for the band. Read morePublished 11 months ago by Drew T. '77
solid effort. fans will be very happy if you haven't heard it beforePublished 14 months ago by robzimus
An anomaly within the catalog; this is the first Lizzy album to be recorded primarily as a trio since 1973's "Vagabonds of the Western World" but it is a giant step forward... Read morePublished 16 months ago by Jacob Koehler
A classic from Thin Lizzy! All the songs inside are awesome. A must have...Published 17 months ago by Carlos Rivas
I love virtually all of Lizzy's material; however, the overall production of this album doesn't impress me. There's way too much low end and the sound seems somewhat muffled. Read morePublished 18 months ago by Sharptiger Rocker


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My green gold herbal moisturizer started to crystallize after a few days of opening. Is it normal?
Is it ok to keep using?
We recommend keeping oil based organic personal care products (Green Gold, shea butter, underarm deodorants) in the fridge for long shelf life and to prevent the issue you see. Crystallization occurs when the product gets hot and melts. The beeswax uncouples from the oils and separates. Those are the grainy things you see, bits of beeswax or shea butter. You can fix grainy green gold or straight shea butter by melting it in hot water or a microwave, giving a quick stir, and putting it into the freezer for 30 minutes. Voila! Perfect again.
Is the Liquid Sunshine Dish Foam okay to also use and a hand soap for use in the kitchen sink?
What's the best soap to buy for a man?
Great question!
Lemongrass is always a good choice for guys.
Bar soaps for more sensitive skin, liquid soaps for oily skin and gels are in the middle.
Lemongrass bar soap is good for shaving too.
Are all the plastic bottles/containers you use BPA free and non-toxic? What is the number rating on the bottles? i.e. 5, 2. I am just concerned that toxins may leach into the great products you have. Do yo know if the heat or cold will release any toxins from the bottles/containers? I am sure they are fine but can't find any info on your website or questions anywhere with this info. Thanks! I am so happy to have found you!
Great question!
Short answer:
Yes! All of our bottles/containers are BPA free and non-toxic.
Long answer:
All the clear bottles are PET. (8, 16, and 38 oz)
The gallon bottles are HDPE – the same stuff milk bottles are made of; as are the 5 gallon cubes. The 7 oz foamer bottles are now HDPE, but may be transitioning to PET as soon as possible. (We're waiting for the samples to arrive). The Body Foam are now in HDPE.
The Tooth Salt are packaged in LDPE.
White 16 oz, and 4 oz bottles are also PET. They were HDPE, and there may be a few of these left in stock, but as time goes on these bottles begin to panel (look dented) which has lead us back to using PET.
The white carafe bottle (Green Car) is HDPE – but will be replaced with PET next time we buy them.
The Body Care jars (Green Stuff, Green Gold, Shea Butter, etc) are PET.
All the best!
I recently bought the Liquid Sunshine Spray and Wipe to try it out. I love it and am going to buy a jug of the concentrate. Is the Liquid Sunshine in the Spray and Wipe bottle diluted or just the concentrate in a spray bottle?
Spray and Wipe is basically diluted Liquid Sunshine.
We use fancy de-mineralized water, but you can buy the concentrate and make your own. Always add soap to water rather than water to soap when diluting or you will make a lot of suds.
Liquid Sunshine literally cleans EVERYTHING under the sun. See the website and fine print on the label for dilution instructions.
Do any products contain cocoamidopropyl?
Our foaming bases (bar, liquid, gel, paste) are all soap based; made from organic oils. Thanks for asking.
I thought I'd seen a bar soap good for dirty, greasy, mechanics hands. Am I wrong or did it go away?
The Honey love Beauty mask and Clay mask are only different with the addition of clay correct? Does this end up more like a scrub? Why did you add clay? The description is the same for both and no mention is made of the clay.
Thank you.
We had a pumice bar soap some 15 years ago. It was actually a soap failure that worked well on greasy hands. I like to use straight castile liquid soap or liquid sunshine on my greasy working hands. Use it twice for best results.
The addition of the clay makes it best for Oily Skin. So we have a dry skin exfoliator and an oily skin one. Thanks for asking!
All the Best,
Soapman Larry Plesent
Hi Soapman,
Do you know if your foaming soap works in all foaming soap dispensers?
We are a yacht and have foaming dispensers in all crew cabins and are looking for a compatible organic refill solution.
Thank you
Hello and thanks for your question. Our foamer soap should work fine in whatever foamer dispenser you have. However you need to rinse any detergent residues from the container. Three rinses should do it. Organic soap and detergents are evil opposites and annihilate each other. Rinse the container when you refill it too. This will keep your soap fresh.
All the Best,
Does your Organic Castile Soap clean well using cold water? I'll be cleaning beakers and metal pumps which are used to measure and dispense essential oils, but have no hot water at my cleaning station.
Yes, castile liquid soap will work in cold water. Foamy stuff always lathers and rinses better in hot water, but with enough of a rinse you should be fine. Pick up 8 oz of unscented castile and give it a try. You must Experiment!
All the Best, Soapman
My liquid soap got left out in the cold, and now it's white and opaque instead of transparent. What happened? Is it still good to use?
Castile Liquid Soap, Liquid Sunshine and other castile related products such as our foamers and spray cleaners will turn white after being cold or frozen. This is completely normal. All of our organic liquid soap products will return to their normal clear amber color as they warm back to room temperatures. Cold temps and freezing may also cause some white soap to precipitate to the bottom of the bottle. This does not harm the function of the product. Simply warm and shake everything back into solution during cold weather.
Store your Green Gold Herbal Moisturizer, Shea Butter, Coco Luscious and Arnica Salve in the refrigerator for a longer shelf life and to maintain a nice even consistency. Oil based salves and balms are temperature sensitive. This means that they will be hard at cold temperatures and creamy at warmer ones. Choco Luscius might arrive very solid in the Winter (warm to room temps before using). Conversely it might be too loose when it arrives in Summertime (refrigerate for an hour before using). Being aware of the intrinsic temperature sensitive nature of organic salves makes them easier to use and enjoy as well as extending the shelf life of the product inside the jar, protecting your investment. Keep your salves and balms in the refrigerator to greatly extend the useful life of your products. Discard Green Gold if it turns yellow from air and UV exposure. Discard any organic personal care product that has a sharp rancid aroma or color change.
If your salve or balm melts (temperatures over 110 F will typically do this given time) it will separate into a liquid and solid layer. When it solidifies back the product will be grainy and less desirable to use in terms of look and feel, though still usable. This is because the beeswax unattaches from the lighter oils when it melts and reforms into small grainy nubs when it re-solidifies. You can fix grainy salves, balms and moisturizers by heating them back to liquid, stirring the contents until smooth and immediately placing the jar into a freezer for about an hour. Tip: Place your lidded jar in a sturdy non-plastic bowl and cover with boiling water. It may take several changes of water to fully melt the product. Stir thoroughly and place into a freezer. The colder the better. The idea is to get the product to set up quickly. This insures a smooth, creamy finish and lower melt point when applied.
Could I use this soap in a foaming pump if I dilute it in the bottle? How does it compare to your foaming hand soap in ingredients?
Yes you can! First rule is to add the soap to the water – not the water to the soap – as adding water to the soap will make a lot of foam in your bottle. Second rule is ALWAYS rinse your foamer dispenser three times in hot water when refilling. Your organic soap is only as fresh as the oldest soap molecule in the bottle. Dilute about 50% to make a good foamer soap. The range is pretty flexible, from 60% to 40% depending on your preference in skin feel and foam durability.
Thanks for asking!
The Soap Crew at Vermont Soapworks
I wanted to make my own foaming dish soap. You sell an 18 oz bottle of liquid sunshine dish foam. Could I buy your Liquid Sunshine All Purpose Cleaner Concentrate and use my own foaming bottles to make a dish soap by using the concentrate and adding a certain amount of water to it so it would perform like the 18 oz bottle? Thanks for any help or ideas you might have.
Sure thing Kelly. Dilute about 50-60% with water.
Hints: add Liquid Sunshine to the water not the water to the soap.
Use this trick to make spray cleaner using 5-10% Liquid Sunshine,
Always rinse the bottle 3x in hot water before refilling to keep it fresh.
Foam directly onto applicator or brush to use.
There you go Kelly. All the Best,
What is the weight of your bar soap?
Excellent Question!
One day old bar soap averages 4.25oz (120.5g).
Under ideal drying conditions this is reduced to 3.75 (106g) to 3.85 (109g) in 30 days.
We label our soap as 3.25oz (92g) for legal reasons as this is sometimes the weight after a year to 18 months. We are allowed to be over weight but not under.
Hope this helps!
Soapman Larry Plesent
Do you have a product to recommend that will take out the chemical smell in my new black jeans? I've tried washing several times with vinegar and the smell is still very strong. Thanks for your time.
Try using Liquid Sunshine without softener or drier sheets. Should be fine after a couple of washes.
What is the expiration date on organic Shea butter?
Store natural Shea butter in a cool place. It should be fine for a year or more. Refrigerate for longer shelf life. We add natural rosemary extract as a preservative when we melt it down and pour it into consumer sized packages like the Shea tins.
Which is better for my drains, your bar soap or your shower gel? In other words, which makes less scum? Sorry for this bizarre question, but I can't decide which one to purchase. Thanks.
Soap scum is a mixture of soap and minerals. Filtering your water will reduce the minerals. That's probably the best way to avoid the issue. Clean soap scum with vinegar (acidic vinegar cleans alkaline soap), with Bon Ami the unscented scrubby cleaner, or with Liquid Sunshine nontoxic cleaner.
Best to order your soap products based on your skin type rather than how often you have to scrub the tub. Our organic bar soaps are for sensitive skin, especially dry sensitive skin. The soap based shower gels and body foams are for all but the most dry and sensitive skin types. And liquid castile soaps are for oily skin people. Look for the skin type graphic on our website and on many of our products.
Do u sell shampoo for hair
If you have thin undyed hair the Shea Butter Bar might work for you.
Soap shampoos remove hair dyes, and the usually do not work well on thicker and curlier hair.
You will have to experiment. Try the Shea Butter Bar (great for dry skin even if your hair doesn't like it) and the Baby wash/Shampoo. This product might best with a lemon juice water rinse and conditioning.
All depends on your hair. This is why we do not sell a product as shampoo.
Dear Soapman. Its getting colder and I noticed that my skin became more sensitive when the heat came on. Is there a correlation here or am I just B. Fuddled in Bennington
Dear B. F.,
Yes you are correct. There is indeed a correlation between heating systems coming on in the Autumn and skin sensitivity. Here's why.
According to the National Institutes for Health over 25% of Americans test positive for dust mites as an allergen. Dust, and the mites that live on them deposit on baseboard heaters, fall down ventilation ducts and get through clogged and dirty air filters. As they burn off, we breathe it all in and get it on our skin. A very common reaction to this is to get rashy and sensitive.
What to do: Use a damp rag to CLEAN every surface you can on radiators, baseboards and heating pipes. Change forced hot air furnace filters every year. Remove air grates and vacuum out the debris, wipe down with an organic spray cleaner like Liquid Sunshine or plain water. Then turn the heat up, open the doors and windows, turn on the fans and go out for pizza (with lots of vegetables) and movie on top. Should be safe to go when you return, if you have done your homework well. This will DECREASE your reactions.
Now SOOTHE with Shea butter, Green Gold or your favorite herbal green salve. Bathe with the Shea Butter Bar from Vermont Soap or another superfatted handmade soap bar (but not melt and pour soaps which are pretty but non-therapeutic). Drink lots of pure non-plastic water and try sleeping with a window cracked open for a while. Learn more about chemical sensitivities at www.reactivebody.org and www.vermontsoap.com
Can I use the shower gel for my hair?
In a word…maybe
This is a soap gel, and soap removes coloring from hair. If you like your hair tinted or colored don't use it.
If you wash your hair everyday soap based shower gel may not work for you unless you also use a conditioner of some kind. A vinegar or lemon juice rinse might work for your hair, but you will have to experiment. Some people need more moisture (oils) added than others. And that is what it comes down to. For those of us that want a nontoxic hair cleaner we must experiment. Here are some tips:
For thin, thinning hair use the Shea Butter Bar. This works without conditioners for thin hair.
Thick, curly hair has more difficulty with soap based cleaners.
Unscented soap products work better long term than products containing essential oils.
We have had reports that many Japanese women enjoy washing their hair with our shower gel. However they may use additional hair treatment such as the traditional oil comb (tsuge).
There are three types of bonds that make up hair. Three to the third power makes twenty seven possible bond combinations. That's a lot of different types of hair! Soap products do not work for everyone all the time. But if you experiment you can probably come up with a nontoxic system that works for you.
All the Best,
Dear Soapman,
I recently purchased the Arnica Salve for my achy parts. Works quite well – thank you. I started to get a headache yesterday and instead of taking a pill I rubbed the arnica on the back of my neck. Worked great! Better than I ever expected. So my question is; "How come your Old Fashioned Arnica Salve is not categorized as a drug by the FDA? "
– Quizzical
Dear Quizzical,
A drug is defined by its intent of use. Non-prescription items can claim to soothe, moisturize, ease, calm, relieve tension; but not much more. Pain for example, is a medical condition. If you are in pain see a medical professional. Aches and tensions are a normal part of life and are not considered to be illnesses or medical conditions. Thank goodness, since there many safe and natural ways to soothe life's little owies!
OTC remedies cannot claim to diagnose, treat or cure any ailment without falling under FDA drug labeling rules. Do some companies make outrageous drug like claims for their OTC products? Yes, of course. But only until they get caught. Best to stick with Mother Nature!
Thanks for Keeping it Natural,
Does the quality of Castile liquid soaps vary that much between companies? How is your product different to others on the market?
Castile liquid soap is a nod to the coconut and olive liquid soap that is still made in the La Castilla La Mancha region, part of the ancient Kingdom of Castille in Spain. This was the soap and detergent of the wealthiest citizens of Europe for nearly two hundred years.
Over time, the term Castile Soap has come to mean any soap product containing any amount of olive oil. This is important because the main ingredient; coconut oil-turning-into-liquid soap is harsh and degreasing by nature. Great for grease, rough on skin. Adding olive and other food grade vegetable oils as a percentage of the formula will soften that innate harshness.
The pH of the soap is also important. Castile liquid soap can range from 9.2 to 10.2; with dramatic differences in skin feel resulting. This is basically a micro brewed soap process, and it is the art of the Soapmaker to balance the variables through years of skill through practice to get it right.
Like beer and wine, all castile soaps are NOT alike!
We recommend cold process handmade bar soap for the most sensitive skin, and craft foaming, gel and cleaning spray soaps from our several castile base soap formulas for specific uses.
Vermont Soap Castile is a multipurpose nontoxic cleaner concentrate that oily skin individuals can also use for bathing. It is milder than the majority of products you will encounter.
Do your soaps contain sodium hydroxide?
Bar Soap is in fact a mass of crystals grown from the merging of oils and sodium hydroxide. No detectable sodium hydroxide is left in the final product when it is done the way we do it. In other words, sodium hydroxide is a processing aid that turns oils which make you greasy into soap which makes you clean.
We do not use melt and pour processes here. So called "Glycerin Soaps" are primarily radiator anti-freeze mixed with glycerin and usually triethanolalamine.
If you need a super mild soap for sensitive skin I recommend the Shea Butter Bar.
Love your liquid castile soap, however, my wife wants a clear (no color) liquid to put in bathroom/kitchen dispensers. Is this available ?
Our liquid soap soap is a natural clear amber liquid. Adding scent will darken it somewhat. Unscented Liquid Sunshine would be the clearest product we have. Remember to rinse your container 3x in hot water between refills to keep your organic soap fresh!
How many ounces are in each bar that comes in the 120 bar set?
Ahh…. the bar weight question again!
When we make our handmade bar soaps they weigh more or less 4.5oz/128g.
We cure the bars on custom made drying racks for a minimum of 28 days. This lowers their water content to 12.5% or about 3.75oz/106g per bar. That is the approximate weight of a fresh bar of our soap.
But let's say that a particular bar should sit unpackaged in that crate display for a worst case scenario of 14 months. The average weight then would be 3.25oz/92g In order to stay legal this is the weight we state on our unpackaged bar soap displays.
Although there is some shrinkage over time due to water loss, the size of a bar of soap remains surprisingly consistent. Our bars average 3.25"x2"x1.25" or 8.25cm x 5cm x 3cm
Thanks for asking!
Dear Mr. Soapman,
I love your Vermont Castile Soap! Thank you so much for making a difference!
Can I make soap bars from your Vermont Castile Soap? I am a beginner, and I have been looking for melt and pour base natural, chemical free through other companies. Both companies I had in mind, they carry melt and pour soap base, but do carry bad chemicals in them. So can I use your castile soap in a cold process recipe? I learned that cold process involves oils, butters and Lye. But have no idea where to begin. But desire to make my own. Please advise.
Thank you very much for the kudos! If you pour castile liquid soap into a shallow dish it will evaporate out and turn into a jelly like hockey puck. You can experiment with letting it dry into a hard ball or shape for example. NOT the same as bar soap (it will not get that hard) but it will certainly be different!
All the Best,
Question: It says on the website that you can use the Castile and the Sunshine products on your carpets but it doesn't say how much. I know it's very concentrated and I don't want to add too much.
Answer: Use like the detergent concentrates you are used to using. They should measure out the same.
Question: I have my own carpet cleaner that I bought and I want to double check and make sure it won't hurt the cleaner. I don't see how it could but I'm just double checking.
Answer: The only issue is that soap and detergents are evil opposites and will annihilate each other. Best not to keep switching back and forth and to thoroughly wash out the machine and hoses with warm/hot water when you do.
Question: Usually a carpet cleaning company will put a stain guard on the carpet after they are done cleaning it and I really don't want that chemical on there so is there something else I can use to protect my carpets from stains or do I still need to put that guard on there.
Answer: Stain guard is Teflon and fluorocarbons. Yuck! Unless you have a very messy life you should think twice about living with these molecules all around you. I was a messy little boy, but carpet guard products did not exist when I was growing up. Somehow we survived just fine without them. I suspect most people can too.
Question: Do the oils in the cleaner (Castile or Sunshine) attract dirt?
Answer: No. These are oils-turned-into-soap; not oils like motor oil. There are also volatile scents oils but these are more like orange oil in that they cut grease rather than making things dirtier.
Hope this helps!
Hello Soapman. My wife has banned any soaps or gels that leave a film in the shower. That includes some current Castile soaps. I love peppermint soaps. Does the Vermont Peppermint Castile Soap or Vermont Peppermint Shower Gel leave a film residue in the shower or tub?
I love this question!
Soap interacts with minerals in your water to leave a film, affectionately known as "Soap scum". Wreaks havoc on a hot tub. Here are your options:
- Remove soap scum with vinegar, or in more extreme cases vinegar and baking soda OR
- Use Bon Ami on your porcelain surfaces. Cheap, effective and scentless. OR
- Hire a cleaning service OR
- Soften your water so soap scum won't form OR (and this is the saddest alternative):
- Use chemical detergent body washes instead of yummy organic soap (ouch!)
There you are Gary. I hope that you don't have to choose between organic soap and your wife. In an ideal world you can keep both.
All the Best,
My husband likes a shaving cream that foams up. I would like for him to stop using the synthetic shaving creams with toxic chemicals. We would like to find a natural product that foams and lathers up when he shaves. Which of your products do you recommend that would be a good shaving cream?
Thank you.
Buy your man a nice shaving brush and he can lather up with organic Vermont Soap. I recommend the Butter Bar. No scent and it softens your beard while soothing your skin.
All the Best,
Is Patchouli Hemp the same as Patchouli Rose? I love the Patchouli Hemp and I am down to my last bar!
Patchouli Rose is a new flavor. It is light and fresh and less earthy patchouli blend with a rosey heart note. Patchouli Hemp is the terrific patchouli blend you have loved for years. Thanks for asking!
Can I melt your Second Soap in the microwave and put it in a soap mold?
Not recommended. But in the interest of science you could grate the soap, add 50% water and heat gently while stirring. Cool and mold, then cure the water out for 3 weeks.
I am a soap maker in Ghana. I'm interested in the distillation machine you made while in Ghana. Can I use that type of machine to make distilled water for my shea butter soap? I'm trying to work out a problem with discoloration and dreaded orange spots. Thank you.
Thank you for contacting us.
The essential oil distillation machine could also be used to clean water.
However, the dreaded orange spots are not usually caused by the water.
I can better help you if you will answer a few questions:
- Are you using palm oil or palm kernel oil?
- Are you making Box Soap or Black Soap?
After you answer these two questions I will ask you some more questions and then may have a correct answer for you.
I make cold process shea butter soap using refined palm oil, but it used to do it before I began using palm oil. The major problem is the darkening of the soap after about 6 months.
Good to hear that you are making cold process Box Soap.
Please use palm kernel oil instead of palm oil. This hardens much faster than palm oil bar soaps and makes a better product. Your recipe should remain the same, palm kernel use the same amount of sodium hydroxide as palm oil. You can add 3% shea butter as a SUPERFAT to your recipe.
What are you using for scent? Do you add color?
To go over the basics (which you may already know):
I like to make a 25% lye solution: 4 parts clean water to 1 part lye. Let this rest overnight. Use this lye water up within 3 days or it will spoil.
Mix 1 part oil blend (melted palm kernel and shea butter) with 3 parts lye water.
Always add lye water to oils – not oil to the lye water. Take a long time to add the lye water. The stream should only be as fast or thick as pee and the oils must be moving as you add it. Takes about 20 minutes to thicken to trace. Pour into plastic lined molds.
You do not need fancy wooden boxes to pour into. Almost anything that will hold the weight will work.
How can I remove the dark color and strong scent from the palm kernel oil?
I use fragrance and essential oils, I also color some of my soap. I get some fragrance oils and soap color from Brambleberry and essential oils from Natures oils.The soap discolors in both the fragrance scented ones as well as the soap I use essential oil in, and it also goes darker whether I color it or not.
After approximately 6 months my soap goes from a nice light ivory color to a ugly beige. I thought it could be minerals in the water or the coconut oil I use. I have found a new source for quality coconut oil, but not sure what to do about the water.
Yes, you will have to refine the PK oil. The method I learned is this:
Put the PK oil in a place where it will get full hot sun all day. Place the amount of sodium hydroxide that will fit into the palm of your hand into the plastic PK oil container and let it rest on top. In two or three days the PK oil should turn lighter. Please do not use your bare hand to measure.
PK oil is sold in plastic containers, and these containers are never cleaned. Little bits of old oil stick to the inside of the bottle. This old oil spoils, and when it does, it spoils all the oil near it. This goes on until, very quickly, the entire bottle becomes strong smelling and begins to spoil.
I recommend that you clean out your PK bottles with lye water, swish and rinse with cool water. Repeat until you can get the oil all off the plastic. You may need also to use a brush and hot water with soap. Mark them with a bit of colored cloth tied to the handle and insist that your supplier refills those same cleaned containers for you.
All the Best!
Can women use spicewood extra strength deodorant or is it just for men?
You don't have to be male to use and enjoy safe and organic odor control. Spicewood is a cedar/clove blend that is reminiscent of Old Spice ™ hence the "guy friendly scent" angle.
Clove, cinnamon and cedar wood oils are powerful plant concentrates that work with the other ingredients in the product to control bacteria. It is usually bacteria that cause strong perspiration aromas.
Hope this helps. Thanks for keeping it natural!
Hi Larry,
Thank you for providing this service. I am looking for the mildest soap I can find that does a great job cleaning body oils from plastic medical devices that come into contact with the human body. Another thing that would be helpful is any ability the soap would have clean the bacteria, sterilize, etc. Thank you very much for your assistance.
Brad Ingram
Hi Brad.
I would use Unscented Liquid Sunshine which we also sell as Unscented Castile Liquid Soap. It is generally non-irritating, de-greasing, scentless, and works well on plastics.
All the Best,
Larry Plesent
I got a free sample chapstick from you at NOFA VT and I LOVE it, but I can't find where to order it on your website? I was also wondering what the difference was between the horse shampoo and the pet shampoo? Do you make a conditioner? I usually use vinegar after I bathe my horse to help with skin problems. Would it be ok to use your shampoo and follow with vinegar and skip conditioner? Is it ok to use the horse shampoo on a dog or the pet shampoo on a horse?
Thank you!
Hi Kelsey.
Lots of great questions.
Here we go:
I got a free sample chapstick from you at NOFA VT and I LOVE it, but I can't find where to order it on your website?
THANK YOU for enjoying our latest product launch. There new lip balms will be available on line (and coming to stores) starting next week: Naked Lips (the one you sampled), Berry Berry and Cocoa Butter.
I was also wondering what the difference was between the horse shampoo and the pet shampoo?
Small changes in essential oils and glycerin are the only real differences between the two products.
Do you make a conditioner?
Sorry, we do not.
I usually use vinegar after I bathe my horse to help with skin problems. Would it be ok to use your shampoo and follow with vinegar and skip conditioner?
Yes. This should work fine.
Is it ok to use the horse shampoo on a dog or the pet shampoo on a horse?
Yes indeed! Thanks for asking.
Please sir when will your wife come and teach us how to make Black soap again. Will it be in Accra or in the north.so that I may get ready too. I would love to learn how to brew the Shea butter too. Thank you
Thank you so very much for your interest in learning about soap making and about shea butter. We have some resources for you here: http://vermontsoap.com/corporate-responsibility/vermont-soap-in-africa/
Our NGO, Soap Peace International, will be putting up a website later this year with instructional videos.
You can email me directly with questions after you try making a small amount of soap yourself. It is best to learn to make African Box Soap, rather than Black Soap if you can get sodium hydroxide flakes. Read my manual and look for information on making soap such as videos on YOUTUBE.com
I am not traveling much these days but instead, am using the internet as a teaching aid.
Wishing You All the Best,
Larry Plesent
I'm leaving for Central America soon. I'm looking for a good, nontoxic sunscreen and insect repellant. You cookin anything?
Yes indeed. Take the Camping Lotion and the Camping Spray. If you can only take one it should be the lotion.
I developed these products while working in malaria infested zones in Liberia, West Africa. They both contain the same essential oil blend. The lotion lasts a solid 4 hours before renewal. The spray lasts about 40 minutes but is good when you need something quick and is good to go over your clothing and on your hat. Be sure to use the lotion on your ankles and exposed feet near sunrise and sunset.
Bring along 16oz of our Tea Tree Castile soap. Use it to wash hands, clothes, dishes, washing out cuts and scrapes etc. If you are traveling in rural village areas this is not an option. Lots of people will want to shake your hand. Bump fists instead.
Be sure to pick up a 2oz tin of our shea butter. It works incredibly well on sunburn, scrapes and bites and lips. Shea butter has a mild spf of 2-3 (naturally occurring). Bring a big floppy hat like a TILLY hat as your first line of protection. I have never met a natural formulator who recommends the regular use of sunscreen on themselves or on their kids and I don't either except for episodic protection in extreme conditions.
Best of Luck, travel in threes and bring emergency CIPRO antibiotics just in case.
All the Best,
Can you order products over the phone?
You bet!
Call us toll free at 1.866.SOAP.4U2 and a real human being located in Vermont will talk you through it.
All the Best
I would like to use your bar soap during pregnancy. I understand there is some question about the safety of using aromatherapy oils during pregnancy. Are the fragrances in the soaps diluted enough so I can use them during pregnancy?
A you know essential oils are powerful plant concentrates that contain hundreds of molecules that the plant produces to fight fungus, viral, bacteria and cancer and as an attractant or repellent. There is ample evidence that ingesting large amounts of essential oils during pregnancy is a really, really bad idea.
It stretches the imagination to consider that a highly diluted wash off product containing essential oils, which have to travel through 4 layers of skin to be absorbed would have any effects on your baby. And in fact, like pet shampoo warnings on the internet, there as absolutely no valid evidence available to back up the claim that wash off products containing this range of essential oils has any deleterious effect on mammals of any kind; in utero or not. Clearly I consider this use of essential oils safe and nontoxic to humans.
But why use scented soap anyway? We make two beautiful bar soaps, the Butter Bar and Unscented. They work great. I use the Butter Bar as my main skin and hair product every day. Use essential oils for specific skin type issues and then return to the unscented products after. Avoid regular use of essential oils on babies the first six months of life as it is possible to sensitize your kid to the oils. To this day my oldest daughter cannot use lavender oil (and a few other oils) on her skin.
Hope this answers your question. All the Best!
Is it safe to use Choco-Luscious Skin Smoothie as a lip balm? I am especially wondering about children using it, since they will lick their lips often!
Yes it is! Choco-Luscious Skin Smoothie has the same ingredients as natural lip balms. All ingredients are food grade and certified organic. The batch is pasteurized prior to filling. Best!
What is the difference between your Castile liquid soap and your Sunshine liquid soap?
Liquid Sunshine is a kind of castile liquid soap. We formulated it especially for its grease cutting essential oil blend.
I use (and love!) the Liquid Sunshine for almost all of my cleaning needs… general cleaning, kitchen cleaning, bathroom cleaning… but I currently still use a specific ' toilet bowl cleaner'. I'm wondering if Liquid Sunshine will work well for cleaning toilets. I don't know if there are any ingredients that aren't recommended in toilets or sewage lines. Any thoughts?
Thanks for your help,
Hi Rebecca,
Liquid Sunshine is fine for sewer lines and for cleaning toilets.
Thanks for asking!
I just discovered your site and I'd like to order some items. I prefer unscented items because I have sensitive skin and other allergies.
Some questions before I order:
I am looking for a good cleaner that will disinfect kitchen counter tops as well as bathroom surfaces. What would you recommend for this type of cleaning?
Liquid Sunshine Spray and Wipe cleans all bathroom and kitchen surfaces. Safe, nontoxic and scentless. Sign up for our eblasts to stay in touch for the release of this and other yummy organic products for your life.
What is the difference between the Aloe Castile Liquid Soap and the Liquid Sunshine soap? It sounds like both are good for generalized cleaning but after that I can't tell what differentiates them.
They are both liquid castile soaps and cousins. Liquid Sunshine (scented) has an edge for removing grease and oils.
Is Liquid Sunshine Unscented Zero-VOC non-toxic? I see your regular Liquid Sunshine Spray & Wipe Surface Cleaner is listed as non-toxic.
Vermont Soap's mission is to replace yucky stuff with yummy stuff. We ONLY make nontoxic products using organic plant based ingredients. Most products are certified to organic food standards.
I want to try shea butter as a facial moisturizer. Any tips on applying this?
Wash face first if you have oily skin, then apply the shea butter. Give it a good 15 minutes to soak in and apply several layers in you want to speed things up. Pay attention to character lines forming on cheeks and the corners of your eyes. It takes 3-4 months before people start noticing a real difference. If you have dry facial skin use the Butter Bar for face washing. Other anti-aging products we make include Honey Love Beauty Mask and Green Gold herbal Moisturizer. Check them out too!
All the Best,
Larry Plesent, Founder, CEO and Soapman
I purchased your Lavendar Vermont Soap bath crystals from Middlebury Co-op. I didn't buy the one already in a container. The one I bought I had to measure out myself. Unfortunately, the label on the outside did not recommend how much bath salt to use. Please advise how much for a general bath.
Thank you.
This is somewhat subjective.
For a full bath use between two and five heaping tablespoons depending on the amount of water used and how strong you like it. I would start with two and work my way up.
The Soap Crew
Can I brush my teeth with your liquid castile soap?
Technically you CAN brush your teeth with castile soap if you REALLY REALLY REALLY want to.
Having done the experiment I do NOT recommend it. I got a mouthful of sudz and my tongue tasted like soap the rest of the day. Not good.
Better to use Vermont Soap's Tooth Salt, and especially our new Extra Strength Neem version which will be available in February. Toothsalt is an all-natural substitute for toothpastes. Once you get used to it there is no going back to sweet, foamy pastes.
Use Toothsalt with our Toothbrush Cleaning spray for BEST results and healthy gums.
Wishing you Well,
Hi there I have checked the site a few times hoping to buy the shampoo bar but it's always out of stock. Will there be any more coming out? Thanks so much!
Shampoo bar is almost the exact same formula as Aloe Baby. Give that a try! All the Best
What are the dimensions of a bar of your soap?
That is a bit more complicated of a question than it would seem.
Handmade bar soaps contain water. This is cured out over time. As the water weight drops the dimensions of the bar change slightly. Freshly minted bars weigh 4.25oz. a year later they can weigh 3.25oz, and 2 years later about 3oz. That said, we cure our bars to a 12.5% min moisture content or 3.25" long x 2.15 wide x 1.15" thick when ready. This is of course a moving target as bar size and moisture content are intertwined.
Most people call bars this size 3.75oz, which is their weight when ready to sell.
Thank You and All the Best,
Do you carry wholesale lotion base? If not, could you recommend a supplier, who is devoted to all-natural products?
We're a small St. Louis candle company hoping to expand.
Hi Robert,
Thanks for the email.
Lotions typically mean water in oil emulsions. The presence of water means that preservation is required which voids most organic requirements. We make waterless lotions aka salves and balms and other hot oil fills which require no microbial preservation typically. Here the ingredients are heated, pumped into containers, and chilled. We are happy to provide this service for you.
Vermont Soap manufactures a wide variety of certified organic personal care products. Most are available in bulk. We tend to fill hot fills here, but we also have clients that take Green Gold Herbal Moisturizer and fill jars with it cold using a spatula, which works pretty good for small amounts.
Give us a call if we can help. 802-388-4302
Soapman Larry Plesent
Are your products cruelty free?
Vermont Soap is a long time Leaping Bunny supporter. No cruelty on our products! Thanks for asking.
I thoroughly enjoy your unscented Castile soap in my personal care products. The gallon I just received is very light in color as compared to the last gallon I purchased which was surprisingly dark. I'm sure they are of equal quality, but I prefer the lighter color's appearance in my products. What makes this difference in color?
Great Question! The longer the soap cooks the darker it gets. It also comes down in pH making it milder. However, the longer it cooks the more soapier smelling it gets, a definite turn off for most people.
We have a brand new facility now run on (mostly) renewable electric energy. Everything is working really well and we are making castile liquid soap that is both lightly scented and lower in pH than our former specifications. Hallelujah! A perfect batch…….


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Steamed Fish Fillets in Fresh Cilantro Chutney
YIELD Makes 4 servings
|cup green onions, cut into 1/2-inch lengths
|to 2 hot green chili peppers,* seeded and coarsely chopped
|tablespoons chopped fresh ginger
|cloves garlic, peeled
|cup cilantro leaves
|tablespoons vegetable oil
|tablespoons lime juice
|teaspoon salt
|teaspoon sugar
|teaspoon ground cumin
|large romaine lettuce leaves
|tilapia or orange roughy fillets (about 1 to 1-1/4 pounds)
- To prepare chutney, drop green onions, chilies, ginger and garlic through feed tube of food processor with motor running. Stop machine and add cilantro, oil, lime juice, salt, sugar and cumin; process until cilantro is finely chopped. Set aside.
- Trim 1 inch from base of each lettuce leaf; discard. Blanch lettuce leaves in large saucepan of boiling water 30 seconds; remove and drain.
- Place 2 leaves flat on cutting board, overlapping slightly. Lay one fillet horizontally in center of leaves.
- Coat fillet with 1/4 of chutney. Fold ends of leaves over fillet; fold top and bottom of leaves over fillet to cover completely. Repeat procedure with remaining lettuce, fillets and chutney.
- To steam fish, place 12-inch bamboo steamer in wok. Add water to 1 inch below steamer. (Water should not touch steamer.) Remove steamer. Cover wok; bring water to a boil over high heat.
- Place wrapped fillets in steamer; place steamer in wok. Reduce heat to medium. Cover and steam fish 10 minutes per inch of thickness of fish or until fish turns opaque and flakes easily when tested with fork. Carefully remove fish from steamer. Serve immediately. Garnish as desired.
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Posted on 06/02/2014 12:29:42 PM PDT by topher
This pastoral letter was sent by Planned Parenthood and it reads:
Many people wrongly assume that all religious leaders disapprove of abortion. The truth is that abortion is not even mentioned in the ScripturesJewish or Christianand there are clergy and people of faith from all denominations who support women making this complex decision.
The letter text:
The decision to have an abortion is personal. Though your reasons may be complicated and private, youre not alone. As religious leaders from a number of religious traditions, were here to support you in your decision.
Many people wrongly assume that all religious leaders disapprove of abortion. The truth is that abortion is not even mentioned in the ScripturesJewish or Christianand there are clergy and people of faith from all denominations who support women making this complex decision.
The beliefs of each person are deserving of respect, and each person deserves care and compassion. No one should be allowed to force their faith teachings on anyone else.
We believe this decision is yours, made with your doctor and anyone else you choose to bring into the conversation, such as a spouse, partner, parent, or clergy person.
God loves you and is with you no matter what you decide. You can find strength, understanding, and comfort in that love.
(Excerpt) Read more at youngcons.com ...
The letter ends saying that they will refer you to some pastor that supports abortion.
Pro-lifers need to contact Planned Parenthood to see who these pastors are so people can avoid them or try to convert them to the true Jewish or Christian faith.
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
I recommend "The Protestant's Dilemma" by Devin Rose. He discusses the whole thing about every Protestant has a different interpretation of the Bible. The most insidious of this letter is that God loves us no matter what. He loves us but if we reject Him, he cannot make us be with Him.
Rachel lamenting that she did not have any children is the case where a woman is barren and in the Old Testament.
As far as Christianity is concerned, Jesus would have been foolish to speak about abortion as it was a central part of Jewish law/tradition to have children.
It is in the Didache or the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles to the Gentiles that abortion is prohibited. It also prohibited homosexuality.
The reason it is in these writings is that the audience was the Gentiles. Jewish people, at the time of Christ, knew that abortion was wrong.
6th Commandment; "thou shall not murder" has no bearing?
The most insidious of this letter is that God loves us no matter what. He loves us but if we reject Him, he cannot make us be with Him.
Hell is full of people who think they can do whatever they want and have not consequences when they face God in judgement...
Well, one could go to the "Declaration" of scripture, the ten commandments: "Thou Shalt NOT kill!"
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations."
Jeremiah 1:5
These people who wrote this letter, came up with this wicked scheme....I am glad I am not them.
When men strive [struggle/quarrel/contend/fight] together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the womans husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.
"But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Interpretation: If the child lives, then the husband still has the right to demand a fine for the premature birth. If there is injury - note that the text does not distinguish between mother or child there - then everything up to and including the death penalty is on the table.
There's nothing about pastors that makes them anything other than human. And, thanks to the abortion/baby parts industry, we've gotten a good look at how twisted, perverted and murderous humans can be.
As for the "complex decision," it's more often about convenience than anything else.
The Didache: Teachings of the 12 apostles. Dated: 50-120 A.D.(Perhaps the earliest or amongst the earliest Christian/Catholic documents)
"And the second commandment of the Teaching; You shall not commit murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not commit pederasty, you shall not commit fornication, you shall not steal, you shall not practice magic, you shall not practice witchcraft, you shall not murder a child by abortion nor kill that which is born."
( Other links for the Didache: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didache
Notice also the other teachings and especially on the Eucharist. Most Protestant denominations and Bible believing churches just shrug this stuff off. The Catholics dont shrug this off and claim to be the Church established by Christ through his 12 apostles.
Chapter 9. The Eucharist. Now concerning the Eucharist, give thanks this way. First, concerning the cup:
We thank thee, our Father, for the holy vine of David Thy servant, which You madest known to us through Jesus Thy Servant; to Thee be the glory for ever..
And concerning the broken bread:
We thank Thee, our Father, for the life and knowledge which You madest known to us through Jesus Thy Servant; to Thee be the glory for ever. Even as this broken bread was scattered over the hills, and was gathered together and became one, so let Thy Church be gathered together from the ends of the earth into Thy kingdom; for Thine is the glory and the power through Jesus Christ for ever..
But let no one eat or drink of your Eucharist, unless they have been baptized into the name of the Lord; for concerning this also the Lord has said, "Give not that which is holy to the dogs."
Chapter 10. Prayer after Communion. But after you are filled, give thanks this way:
We thank Thee, holy Father, for Thy holy name which You didst cause to tabernacle in our hearts, and for the knowledge and faith and immortality, which You modest known to us through Jesus Thy Servant; to Thee be the glory for ever. Thou, Master almighty, didst create all things for Thy name's sake; You gavest food and drink to men for enjoyment, that they might give thanks to Thee; but to us You didst freely give spiritual food and drink and life eternal through Thy Servant. Before all things we thank Thee that You are mighty; to Thee be the glory for ever. Remember, Lord, Thy Church, to deliver it from all evil and to make it perfect in Thy love, and gather it from the four winds, sanctified for Thy kingdom which Thou have prepared for it; for Thine is the power and the glory for ever. Let grace come, and let this world pass away. Hosanna to the God (Son) of David! If any one is holy, let him come; if any one is not so, let him repent. Maranatha. Amen.
But permit the prophets to make Thanksgiving as much as they desire.
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!. Isaiah 5:20
"'Now another word. It is sad. It is the fourth word. It is the way Yondwi'nias swa'yas. = "she cuts it off by abortion."
Now the Creator ordained that women should bear children.
Now a certain young married woman had children and suffered much. Now she is with child again and her mother wishing to prevent further sufferings designs to administer a medicine to cut off the child and to prevent forever other children from coming. So the mother makes the medicine and gives it. Now when she does this she forever cuts away her daughter's string of children. Now it is because of such things that the Creator is sad. He created life to live and he wishes such evils to cease. He wishes those who employ such medicines to cease such practices forevermore. Now they must stop when they hear this message. Go and tell your people.'"
So they said and he said. Eniaiehuk.
"No one should be allowed to force their faith teachings on anyone else."
But, PP just said abortion isn't mentioned in any of the Scriptures, so how could somebody be forcing it if no faith's documents condemns it?
I agree that passage in Exodus 21 clearly shows that there is a penalty for someone who would induce a miscarriage - or abortion. And for the case of killing the unborne infant - death.
And of course you have Exodus 20 (Thou Shalt Not Kill [Murder]).
And you have other various passages where God is appalled about the people sacrificing their babies to Molech.
Jeremiah 32:35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Leviticus 20:2 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
The idea that God does not condemn the act of abortion is the ridiculous grasping of straws by the depraved. We can all make mistakes - but repent of them, don't encourage others to go down the same path. The "Pro-Choice" people need to choose correctly, and the choice is simple.
Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live...
The stark fact remains, that "therapeutic" abortions were going on in Biblical times, and probably going back to the time when there were still Neanderthals among us. Some of the methods used probably were pretty brutal, threatening the life of the mother very nearly as much as the fetus being aborted, but the alternative was infanticide, a fairly common method of birth control up through probably the early 20th Century, until the emergence of Margaret Sanger.
Under the standards of the day, it was probably highly unlikely that the thrust of a knitting needle that caused an abortion, or a hatpin pushed into the "soft spot" on the top of the newborn's head, would have been detected by the authorities. The abortion would appear to be "spontaneous", and the infant suffered a "crib death".
A lot of souls were condemned to purgatory or worse.
"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb."
Psalm 139:13
I read your profile and found it a bit in error:
"The first example is the Battle of Lepanto. It took courage for the Western nations of Europe to band together and stand against the Turkish fleet — which might have overrun Western Europe with the Islamic faith.
In this great battle, all of the sailors were ordered to pray. It became not only a military battle but also a spiritual battle for this reason. The Christian forces seemed to be on the verge of a military defeat when there seemed to be a Divine intervention — a change in the wind that was extremely unfavorable to the Turkish fleet and gave the victory to the Christians."
You attribute the Battle of Lepanto to Western Europe and Christian forces. Actually Northern Europe/Protestant nations did not and would not participate. It was Catholic Nations and Catholic Forces. It seems your copy and paste job is a little too general or generous, and inaccurate.
No thanks. Sounds dreadful.
Something I wrote about 20 years ago:
There is in the Torah, in the Book of Exodus, Chapter XXI,
verses 22-25, a passage that has been used as a rationalization
for a pro-choice position. In the King James version it reads,
"If two men strive together, and hurt a woman with child (Ishah
Harah - pregnant woman), so that her fruit (Yelodehah - her
child) depart, and yet no harm (Ahsoon - misfortune, accident)
follows, he shall be surely fined, according as the woman's
husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges
determine. But if harm follow, then thou shalt give life for
life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe."
Some have taken this passage to mean that, since the causing
of a miscarriage is not considered to be homicide, and since the
KJV calls the fetus "her fruit", this is a sign that G-d wants
abortion legalized. Some modern translations have gone so far a
to insert "cause her to miscarry", and many people actually
believe that this is what it says. Therefore, any Christian or
Jew who is pro-life is a hypocrite. My cousin, a Hebrew
teacher, made this very argument to our Rabbi, who was pro-life.
At my request, she translated this passage word for word,
and she no longer can use it as a rationalization for a pro-
choice position. She may still be pro-choice, but she can no
longer use this passage as her rationalization.
First, the fact that it says "V'yatzoo Yelodehah - and her
child departs, or goes out" not "and her fruit departs" as the
KJV so delicately puts it, or "and causes her to miscarry" as the
modern versions translate, makes it clear that what is in her
womb is a child, not an orange.
Second, as my cousin pointed out, the passage says "if no
harm follows", but does not specify upon whom the harm is not
inflicted. It does not specify mother or child.
Third, even if the pro-choice interpretation is correct, it
does not support a pro-choice position, nor invalidate a pro-life
one. If the causing of a miscarriage through negligence is not
homicide, it is still described as a serious crime. What does
that say of an intentionally caused miscarriage, ie. abortion?
I don't understand what true Christian leader could say it's ok, that's a wtf moment for me.
There are many false prophets and teachers in the last days.
We must be in the last days.
Amen. Right on the money.
AND we're to love our neighbors as ourselves, and that little baby is the most innocent of our neighbors.
One can find 'religious leaders' advocating any particular sin from A to Z.
This does not legitimize the sin; it identifies the amount of wisdom the 'religious leader' has. In this case, none.
> I dont understand what true Christian leader could say its ok, thats a wtf moment for me.
There are many false prophets and teachers in the last days.
We must be in the last days.
I don't think there has been any time in history quite like we are in now. Similar yes but the technological advances we've made have taken control and power to an unprecedented level which is truly frightening. Events are lining up, prophesies are bearing themselves out, and we are seeing things we never thought would come to pass...Surely we are there...
PP thrives on the killing of nascent, human life.
1. The Torah (Religious books)
2. People
3. Unborn Babies
From this, Jewish tradition says that the unborn are viewed the same as people in terms of burying them in a Jewish graveyard.
Father Paul Schenck was raised as an Orthodox Jew, then he converted to Evangelical Christian. At that point he learned Aramaic and Greek, so he could read the Bible in its original form.
Finally, Father Paul Schenck converted to the Catholic faith and was ordained a priest.
As a pro-lifer, he had a case go to the US Supreme Court, which ruled 8-1 in his favor.
He is my source for this when I worked at PFL and he was a pastoral associate.
You call the truth *insidious*?
Romans 5:6-8 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous personthough perhaps for a good person one would dare even to diebut God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
God does love us, no matter what because God is love.
The error that too many people fall into, however, is equating that great, unconditional love for us into license to sin.
God is just and sin must be punished, even in those He loves.
To claim that God does not love us even while we are sinning or in the midst of sin, slanders God.
My children are my children no matter what they do. I love them and always will, not based on performance, but based on my relationship with them as their parent, and their being my children. But not for one second did that ever mean that I overlooked their disobedience.
We need to combat the "no more wire hangers" motiff of pro-death forces with no-more-scissors symbolism.
People are afraid to confront what "late term abortion" really means.
There is no way in HELL that God approves of this.
Of Course he doesn't approve, he makes us, he knows us while we're still in the womb.
I refuse to have anything to do with it. I don't facebook, I don't support pink ribbon crap, anything I find out that has anything to do with supporting abortion I fervently oppose.
I tick a lot of people off, but I don't care, it's God I answer to, not them.
Rather, Rose is actually an argument against being a RC. This article was posted and refuted before here by God's grace, and i even debated him on his blog, but after posting his response he allowed no more responses to the thread, then deleted our entire exchange , so i posted mine here and told him so, and never heard from him. Staples also refused to post mine rebuttal to the last one i saw here.
He discusses the whole thing about every Protestant has a different interpretation of the Bible. The most insidious of this letter is that God loves us no matter what. He loves us but if we reject Him, he cannot make us be with Him.
He can work to make you willing, and does so in warning against falling away, while the idea the SS equates to antinomianism is absurd, as is the idea that the Unitarians or liberal Prots upheld Scripture as the wholly inspired assured Word of God and supreme authority. In actuality, those who most strongly do so are the most unified in basic key Biblical beliefs*. Reformers (not Joel Osteen perfectly pleasing preachers) clearly taught the only kind of faith that is salvific is one that effects the obedience of faith.
In his Introduction to Romans, Luther stated that saving faith is, "a living, creative, active and powerful thing, this faith. Faith cannot help doing good works constantly. It doesnt stop to ask if good works ought to be done, but before anyone asks, it already has done them and continues to do them without ceasing. Anyone who does not do good works in this manner is an unbeliever...Thus, it is just as impossible to separate faith and works as it is to separate heat and light from fire!" [http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/luther-faith.txt]
if obedience and Gods commandments do not dominate you, then the work is not right, but damnable, surely the devils own doings, although it were even so great a work as to raise the dead... [Sermons of Martin Luther 1:244]
This is why St. Luke and St. James have so much to say about works, so that one says: Yes, I will now believe, and then he goes and fabricates for himself a fictitious delusion, which hovers only on the lips as the foam on the water. No, no; faith is a living and an essential thing, which makes a new creature of man, changes his spirit and wholly and completely converts him. It goes to the foundation and there accomplishes a renewal of the entire man; so, if I have previously seen a sinner, I now see in his changed conduct, manner and life, that he believes. So high and great a thing is faith.[Sermons of Martin Luther 2.2:341]
And Scripturally what one really believes is not what is professed, but what one does and effects manifests this, (Mt. 7:20; Ja. 2:18) and which for Rome is that of treating even known public proabortion prosodomite pols and laity as members in life and in death, and thus fostering the same - in contrast to the very evangelicals Rose and RCs attack.
77% of Catholics polled "believe a person can be a good Catholic without going to Mass every Sunday, 65 percent believe good Catholics can divorce and remarry, and 53 percent believe Catholics can have abortions and remain in good standing. 1999 poll by the National Catholic Reporter. http://www.catholictradition.org/v2-bombs14b.htm
40% Roman Catholics vs. 41% Non-R.C. see abortion as "morally acceptable"; Sex between unmarried couples: 67% vs. 57%; Baby out of wedlock: 61% vs. 52%; Homosexual relations: 54% vs. 45%; Gambling: 72% vs. 59% http://www.gallup.com/poll/117154/Catholics-Similar-Mainstream-Abortion-Stem-Cells.aspx
31% of faithful Catholics (those who attend church weekly, 2004) say abortion should be legal either in "many" or in "all" cases. 2004, The Gallup Organization Gallup Survey for Catholics Speak Out: 802 Catholics, May 1992, MOE ± 4%
Committed Roman Catholics (church attendance weekly or almost) versus Non-R.C. faithful church goers (see the below as as morally acceptable): Abortion: 24% R.C. vs. 19% Non-R.C.; Sex between unmarried couples: 53% vs. 30%; Baby out of wedlock: 48% vs. 29%; Homosexual relations: 44% vs. 21%; Gambling: 67% vs. 40%; Divorce: 63 vs. 46% ^
Comparing 16 moral behaviors, Catholics were less likely to say mean things about people behind their back, and tending to engage in recycling more. However, they were also twice as likely to view pornographic content on the Internet, and were more prone to use profanity, to gamble, and to buy lottery tickets. ^
Catholic women have an abortion rate 29 percent higher than Protestants. Alan Guttmacher Institute http://www.catholicleague.org/research/Catholic_women_and_abortion.htm
26 percent of Catholics (2007) polled strongly agree with the Church's unequivocal position on abortion Catholic World Report; 2997 survey of 1,000 Catholic Americans by Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut
46 percent of Catholics who say they attend mass weekly accept Church teaching on abortion; 43 percent accept the all-male priesthood; and 30 percent see contraception as morally wrong. ^
A 2002 nationwide poll of 1,854 priests in the United States and Puerto Rico reported that 30% of Roman Catholic priests described themselves as Liberal, 28% as Conservative, and 37% as Moderate in their Religious ideology. 53 percent responded that they thought it always was a sin for unmarried people to have sexual relations; 32 percent that is often was, and 9 percent seldom/never. However, nearly four in 10 younger priests in 2002 described themselves as conservative, and were more likely to regard as "always a sin" such acts as premarital sex, abortion, artificial birth control, homosexual relations, etc., and three-fourths said they were more religiously orthodox than their older counterparts. Los Angeles Times (extensive) nationwide survey (2002). http://www.bishop-accountability.org/resources/resource-files/reports/LAT-Priest-Survey.pdf http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_2_39/ai_94129129/pg_2
71 percent of priests responded that it always was wrong for a woman to get an abortion, 19 percent that it often was, and 4 percent seldom/never. Los Angeles Times (extensive) nationwide survey (2002). http://www.bishop-accountability.org/resources/resource-files/reports/LAT-Priest-Survey.pdf http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_2_39/ai_94129129/pg_2
28 percent judged that is always was sin for married couples to use artificial birth control, 25 percent often, 40 percent never. ^
96% of evangelical leaders worldwide disapprove of abortion at least conditionally, with 51% (59% in the Global South, including Africa) affirming that abortion is always wrong, with 45% saying it is usually wrong. 84% say that society should discourage homosexuality, and 79% say that men should serve as the religious leaders in the marriage and family, and 71% of the leaders are male, yet 75% think that women may be allowed to serve as pastors. (in contrast to historical Protestantism). http://www.pewforum.org/uploadedFiles/Topics/Religious_Affiliation/Christian/Evangelical_Protestant_Churches/Global%20Survey%20of%20Evan.%20Prot.%20Leaders.pdf
A study which broke down Mainline Protestants, Evangelical Protestants, and non-Hispanic Catholics into the three subgroups of traditionalists, centrists, and modernists, found that 5.3 percent of the population qualified as traditionalist Catholic, 5.4 percent as centrist Catholics, and 4.9 percent of were modernist Catholics. The Henry Institute, A Pre-Election Analysis http://www.calvin.edu/henry/civic/CivicRespGrant/rel&08election.doc
Traditionalist Catholics disagreed that abortion should be legal and solely up to the woman to decide 71 to 21 percent, centrist Catholics agreed 54 to 40 percent, and modernist Catholics agreed 80-16 percent. ^
For those in black Catholic churches, political affiliation or leaning in 2007 was 17%/74% Republican/Democrat, and 11%/76% for black evangelical churches. Opposition to homosexuality 37% by black Catholics and 58% by black evangelicals. Opposition to abortion was 35% by black Catholics and 53% by black evangelicals. 66% of black evangelicals and 36% of black Catholics say they attend services at least weekly. http://www.pewforum.org/A-Religious-Portrait-of-African-Americans.aspx
71% of Evangelicals, 35% of Protestants and 25% of Catholics said that a candidates position on abortion would have a lot of influence on their decision of who to vote for in 2012. Likewise 63% of evangelicals, 35% of Protestants and 19% of Catholics and said a candidates position on homosexual marriage would have a lot of influence on their decision. Barna, April, 2011 http://www.barna.org/transformation-articles/482-voters-most-interested-in-issues-concerning-security-and-comfort-least-interested-in-moral-issues
73% of Catholics polled say they believe Catholic politicians are under no religious obligation to vote on issues the way the bishops recommend, with 75% disapproving of denying communion to Catholics who support legal abortion, while 70% of Catholics say that the views of Catholic bishops in the US are unimportant to them in deciding for whom to vote, and 69% of say they feel no obligation to vote against candidates who support abortion. Belden Russonello & Stewart, "Secular and Security-Minded: The Catholic Vote in Summer 2008," Catholics for Choice, July 2008. http://www.catholicvote.net/page7/page22/page22.html
65% of Catholics supported a tax increase for the wealthiest Americans in 2006, up from 52 percent in 2002. Majorities of Catholics support issues traditionally considered planks of the Democratic Party platform: universal healthcare, pro-labor policies, access to abortion, and social welfare programs for the poor. http://cara.georgetown.edu/NewsandPress/PressReleases/pr061808.pdf
50% of all Protestants converts from Catholicism said they stopped believing in Catholicism's teachings overall. Only 23% (20% now evangelical) were unhappy about Catholicism's teachings on abortion/homosexuality (versus 46% of those now unaffiliated); 23% also expressed disagreement with teaching on divorce/remarriage; 16% (12% now evangelical) were dissatisfied with teachings on birth control, 70% said they found a religion the liked more in Protestantism. Pew forum, Faith in Flux (April 27, 2009) http://pewforum.org/uploadedfiles/Topics/Religious_Affiliation/fullreport.pdf
Latino evangelicals are more than 20 percentage points more likely than Catholics to say that abortion should be illegal in most or all circumstances. http://www.nhclc.org/news/latino-religion-us-demographic-shifts-and-trend
73 percent of Catholics rejected Catholic teaching artificial methods of birth control. Catholic World Report; 1997 survey of 1,000 Catholic Americans by Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut
74% of Evangelicals, 73% of Mainline Protestants, and 68% of sexually active Catholics women use birth control. 3% of the Catholics rely on natural family planning. Attendance at religious services and importance of religion to daily life are largely unrelated to use of highly effective contraceptive methods. Countering Conventional Wisdom: New Evidence on Religion and Contraceptive Use, Guttmacher Institute, April. 2011
88% of Catholics believe that they can practice artificial means of birth control and still be considered good Catholics. New York Times/CBS News poll, Apr. 21-23, 1994, subsample of 446 Catholics, MOE ± 5%
98% of self-identified Catholic women ages 15-44 who have ever had sexual relations have used a method of contraception other than natural family planning at some point in their lives. . http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/the-claim-that-98-percent-of-catholic-women-use-contraception-a-media-foul/2012/02/16/gIQAkPeqIR_blog.html?wprss=fact-checker
40% of 18- to 29-year-old Catholics said the churchs teachings on sexuality and birth control are out of date. http://www.barna.org/teens-next-gen-articles/528-six-reasons-young-christians-leave-church
59% of all Catholic women of childbearing age practice contraceptiona rate of usage statistically equivalent to that of the general population (60%). Calvin Goldscheider and William D. Mosher, "Patterns of Contraceptive Use in the United States:
58% of Catholics 52% if they are voters) believe that employers should be required to provide their employees with health care plans that cover contraception;
50% of white Catholics support this requirement, versus 47% who oppose it, along with 38% of white evangelical Protestants an 50% of white mainline Protestants. Public Religion Research Institute, February 2012 http://publicreligion.org/research/2012/02/january-tracking-poll-2012/
54% of Hispanic Catholics believe that churches and other places of worship should be required to provide health care coverage that includes contraception, compared to 41% Hispanic Protestants. African American & Hispanic Reproductive Issues Survey by the Public Religion Research Institute, July 2012
The Devil does exactly the same thing...
4 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted[a] by the devil. 2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 The tempter came to him and said, If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.
4 Jesus answered, It is written: Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.[b]
5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. 6 If you are the Son of God, he said, throw yourself down. For it is written:
He will command his angels concerning you,
and they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.[c]
7 Jesus answered him, It is also written: Do not put the Lord your God to the test.[d]
8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9 All this I will give you, he said, if you will bow down and worship me.
10 Jesus said to him, Away from me, Satan! For it is written: Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.[e]
11 Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.
Did anyone else notice that no tradition or Scripture interpretation was seen in the above dialog?
It helps PP's argument if they skip over the "...be fruitful and multiply..." part.
Also that pesky Psalm 139 thing; too.
this one, too!
Are you still killing your unborn?
...and when He returns; will He find faith on the earth?
What is Nancy Pelosi's, Biden's and John Kerry's interpretation on the matter? Is it in line with the Roman Catholic church? What was Rose mention in his book about them and others in your church like them?
If Catholicism can't (won't?) get rid of Abortion enablers among it's ranks; why does it even raise a fuss about others?
Something I remember about a speck and beam comes to mind. I left out mention of the pro-sodomite United States Roman Catholic Supreme Court.
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