First off, Burt's Bees is not Organic. (correcting a comment left by another person below) They are all natural. There is a difference. Organic means that the plants were grown without pesticides, etc. Burt's Bees does not use all Organic ingredients and actually uses very little true organics.
Some of their products are not even 100% natural. They tell you that right on the label.

I write a blog and just wrote about BB. You may be surprised (or probably not) that Clorox could care less about the Burt's customer base.

www.mintgreenlifestyle.blogspot.com

Thanks for your time.

Burt's bees was a poorly run company. When I worked at a natural foods store they would constantly be out of stock on their most popular items due to "sourcing issues," usually for their packaging. They also introduced and discontinued items frequently. Their products are mostly natural, but they aren't organic. The clorox buy out will probably just mean tighter production and distribution

I was able to confirm that Burt's Bees is not moving is manufacturing to any existing Clorox location. It will continue to be made in North Caroline. I find that encouraging at least.

Well...shit.

At least it's not Proctor & Gamble.

Burts Bees products still contain icky Lanolin. I'd rather not rub oily sheep sweat on my lips, thankyouverymuch.

In all actuality, there is no evidence to suggest that Clorox will change anything or ruin the brand.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

And like when Estee Lauder bought Aveda and Reynolds bought American Spirit.

First Loreal bought Kiehl's, then Colgate bought Tom's of Maine, now Clorox owns Burt's Bees? Jeez, I'm worried that eventually (not immediately) we might be getting Clorox's chemicals inside of Burt's packaging. I think they will leave all the currrent Bees products alone, but my concern would be over new products.

Did you miss the points all the people above mentioned on the quality issue? I like Burt Bee's products as well and I think I'm going to have to stock up now before Clorox ruins it.

@StuSchaff: It's because you can no longer get a philosophy lagniappe with your lip balm. But you never really did; the company was always in business to make money, preferably lots.

@str1cken: They don't get bought out....they sell out.
I was under the impression that Burt's bees was doing well enough that they wouldn't need to sell out.

Time to start reverse engineering some of their products.

Way back when I used to make that lip balm - and some of the other products - by hand. If only I could remember the exact recipe...

Ugh. Not pleased.

If they make a face cream we may all come out looking like Michael Jackson

If they can team up and create a hand cream that heals my hands after using bleach I will buy stock in them.

Burt's Bleach?

I like companies like Burts because they're not part of some huge, most likely evil, corporate monolith.

I think anything Burt's Bees is like
totally awesome!

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For shame!

That is really awesome

"Clorox's Bees"? Too funny!

I'm overgeneralizing and being pessimistic, I know, but I'll be real surprised if we don't see a steep drop in the quality of their products in the next 12 months.

Bah.