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Doing laundry seems like one of the most straightforward household chores. Just separate your clothes in a laundry hamper, toss them into the correct wash cycle (or hand wash them), and add your desired dose of detergent. It’s all standard practice—unless you’re laundry expert Patric Richardson.[Read the article here] …

Japanese artist Tomoko Sato honed her carving skills as a food sculptor, but has since transitioned to soap sculpture as well, creating some of the most eye-catching soap bars you’ve ever seen.[Read the article here]

A small family-owned factory that has been making soap since the 15th century sells claims to sell the world’s most expensive bar of soap, at $2,800.[Read the article here]

Essential Oils and Fragrance Oils are often confused as the same thing, but they couldn't be far from different! In this post, we explore their differences.[Read the article here]

There once was a Coronavirus that landed on a human’s hand with a few hundred thousand of its colleagues. It sat, idle, waiting for the right environment to enslave its new host’s cells into making copies of itself. Unfortunately for the virus, the first liquid it encountered was not a human circulatory system but rather a molecular Molotov cocktail: soap.[Read the article here] …

RAHAT, ISRAEL—The Times of Israel reports that a 1,200-year-old soap factory has been unearthed in the Negev Desert by a team of Israel Antiquities Authority researchers, with the assistance of local high school students. Archaeologist Elena Kogen-Zehavi said the large, pillared structure where the olive oil–based soap was made dates to the Islamic Abbasid period, after the Arab conquest of the region.[Read the article here] …

There's a certain allure to the smell of a new car or that clean citrus smell from a recently-used cleaning product. However, despite how pleasant a scent may be, it's important to consider the sources of any odors in the home and whether or not they are conducive to good health. Many smells that come from products for the home contain volatile organic compounds or VOCs. The scent can be natural, as from a pine tree or a fresh orange. It can also be man-made, like an artificial pine-scented cle …

If you’re looking to save money on skin care (and, um, in life), consider a humble canister of oatmeal. Beyond the infinite breakfast options it provides (peanut butter overnight oats, anyone?), it’s also a key beauty ingredient for soothing and smoothing over dry or itchy skin.[Read the article here] …

About six months ago we pulled our laundry soap from the market. We thought it was great stuff, and so did our many repeat customers. HOWEVER, after advanced testing of our product and other competing products we found that it wasn't what we thought it was. In fact, we are now of the opinion that NO soap-based laundry product is adequate. Soap just isn't a good product to use for washing modern fabrics. It builds up in the fabric, and it doesn't really clean very well. In fact, we have seen …

                                   Theirs                                                                                 OursActivated charcoal has become a popular addition to artisanal soaps for its det …