Dermatologists like Rossi think people can skip showers altogether, multiple days per week. This view isn’t unanimous, though. Khetarpal advises that most people “can and should shower every day,” ...

There’s no shortage of spectacularly bad advice about dietary fat these days. None quite compares to the Soap Diet — a theory I involuntarily tested decades ago, courtesy of my mother. It's even worse ...

If soap scum is making getting your bathroom sparkling clean nearly impossible, there's a solution right in your kitchen that can help clean through it.

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 ...

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 ...

It’s important to choose a soap that’s good for your skin because, while many of the big brand soaps may smell nice, they can really dry out your skin, causing itching or other symptoms. Whether ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...