Check your skin type before you scrub-a-dub-dub — and try out one of these top-rated products for lathering up.

Bar soap and body wash are composed of cleaning agents, and both products aim to lift dirt and oil from the skin. However, the formulation and process of creating each are different. "Bar soap goes ...

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 ...

Maybe you love the sensation of cleansing your body with the same smooth, scented bar soap you’ve used since you were a kid. Or maybe you can’t feel fully clean without lathering up with a loofah ...

Hand-wash delicate garments with laundry bar soaps, like Fels Naptha, to keep your clothes looking newer for longer.

Every woman has her type once her clothes come off—but whether you're strictly a body-wash girl or forever loyal to your bar soap, new advances in both may make you consider cheating. "Bar soaps are ...

A mom and her group chat can’t stop talking about the Hanni’s Cocoon Cleanse Solid Serum Cleanser. The soap-alternative helps ...

When I was growing up, every shower, sink, and bathtub in my house was stocked with the Dove Beauty Bar. It was my mom’s soap of choice (and my grandma’s before that), and pre-pubescent me always ...

During college orientation, there was no better way to peg someone's personality than by checking out the body wash in their shower caddy. Were they a SoftSoap-using traditionalist (my roommate), or a ...

Dr. Murphy Rose specifically recommends this for those dealing with both sensitivity and breakouts. "For acne-prone but ...

When it came to bathing in America, bars of soap reigned supreme for part of the 19th and much of the 20th century. But by the late 1980s, traditional solid bars of soap started getting some stiff ...

Manufacturers of antibacterial hand soap and body wash will be required to prove their products are more effective than plain soap and water in preventing illness and the spread of infection, under a ...