Soap's original main purpose -- cleaning the skin -- was set aside, and its most appreciated and looked-for qualities became safety, mildness, gentleness, minimal irritation, and minimal drying.

The Phoenicians invented soap some 2300 years ago. Since then, views on the actions, benefits, and hazards of soap have changed a great deal. During the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th ...

This human fat was employed to the extent of many tons by the soap boilers and tallow chandlers of Paris for the manufacture ot soap and candles. The French are a people of fine sentiment ...

A concentrated solution of soap in water becomes partially opaque on cooling, by the formation of crystals ; this, however, is not the case with a similarly concentrated alcoholic solution.

Dec. 7 (UPI) --The traditional practice of making a Palestinian soap is being inscribed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization as requiring "urgent safeguarding." ...