What’s the most sustainable way to wash your hands or lather up in the shower? In general, the greenest option is an old-school bar of soap made from plant oil or animal fat and lye, without many ...

Alongside necessities like food and toilet paper, liquid hand soap and alcohol-based hand gels are selling fast. While supermarket, drugstore and pharmacy aisles may be bare, one thing always seems to ...

Bar soap is one of those classic household items that often gets overlooked in our fast-paced, gadget-filled lives. Sure, ...

A woman lathering soap on her shoulder while in the bath tub. Body wash and bar soap are both common skin cleansers. Bar soap has a simpler ingredient list but may not be suitable for certain skin ...

Bar soap and body wash are composed of cleaning agents, and both products aim to lift dirt and oil from the skin. However, ...

Why is hand hygiene important in the COVID-19 pandemic? Our hands can be a critical vector in the transmission of infectious organisms. Infectious viruses can persist on surface materials for several ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) --Would you believe it if we told you that plain old soap and water doesn't kill germs, yet it is the single most cost-effective way of preventing yourself or anyone else from ...

Mask-wearing has divided the country, but hand-washing – one might think – is something virtually everyone would agree on. Hand-washing, after all, is one of the most critical parts of preventing the ...

Handwashing is a routine habit for eliminating dirt and germs most of us encounter daily. But despite the health benefits of hand hygiene, a survey finds that a large segment of people wash their ...

A company called Method is recalling a "small number" of hand soap bottles sold in the United States and Canada because they might contain bacteria. The bacteria isn't dangerous to most healthy people ...