To make a bar of soap, you only need two ingredients: an alkaline and a fat. But what's the fun in keeping things simple? In recent years, the time-honored craft of soap making has gone through a ...

Bar soap has a rich, alluring history — the earliest recorded recipe was found on a tablet in ancient Babylon, dating from 2200 BC, which consisted of three basic ingredients: water, an alkali (also ...

If you’ve ever wanted to make your own soap from scratch, this easy cold process Bastille soap recipe is the perfect place to ...

Learn how to make this lavender and rosemary soap recipe. Making DIY glycerin soap is an excellent project for the whole family to enjoy. Sandy Maine made her first bar of soap in her kitchen. She ...

Spreading like a mosaic across my desk are bars of soap. For the last few days, that mosaic—which is fighting for space with a copy of Butt magazine (thanks, Bottega Veneta), a precariously balanced ...

“I started messing around with soap after I got my wife a crafting magazine and thought, ‘Hey, we can make soap!’” Jeremy Lugo told me as he donned a pair of black latex gloves in preparation for a ...

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Which Dove bar soap for your face is best? Bar soap has been a trusted source of cleanliness for decades, and so has Dove. While bar soap is not typically used to clean the face, Dove has a line of ...

Are there any health risks to using a communal bar of soap in, say, a health club? No. Bar soap does not appear to transmit disease. The most rigorous study of this question was published in 1965.

Dear Heloise: The hint about using a back scratcher to reach things in a store is something I have been doing for a while. I ...

Soap might not seem like a subject to get in a lather about, but it’s one of those everyday essential items that to me ...