While the company today is known for icons like Tide detergent and Pampers diapers, in the 19th century P&G made candles.

Castile soap is a vegetable-based cleaner, available in both bar and liquid forms. It is popular as a body soap but is also useful for certain household chores. Castile soap may have some advantages ...

Several years ago, Erin Zaikis was working in rural Thailand. She was surprised to see how many children in the village didn't wash their hands with soap, much less know what soap was. "Just hearing ...

Finding a soap you love can make washing your hands for the CDC-recommended 20 seconds at a time, a more pleasant experience. After all, we wash our hands constantly throughout the day to stay healthy ...

This iconic cake of soap invented almost 150 years ago, has become a part of Americana largely by advertising its two strange merits: "It Floats" and its "99+44⁄100% Pure."The original product is a no ...

As useful as dish soap is, it’s not a cleaning panacea. Just like you shouldn’t use dish soap to wash your face (hopefully; read more about why not below), there are other perhaps deceptively delicate ...

Simple soap recipes with lye for family use can be made quickly and simply using a lard lye soap recipe. Making a batch of homemade lye soap doesn’t have to be complicated. I like making a simple lard ...

Turns out when it comes to fighting the novel coronavirus—and in general—there's a clear winner. The worldwide spread of COVID-19 understandably has scores of people reconsidering their everyday ...

Well, this is about as close as most will ever get to bathing with Sydney Sweeney. Bars of soap made with the Hollywood heartthrob’s actual bathwater went on sale Friday... and immediately sold out.

Walk into a Walmart, Target, any drugstore chain in your neighborhood or a corner bodega for New York City dwellers, and chances are you’ll find an Ivory Soap bar, or a pack of 10 bars for under $5, ...