A humble bar of soap is perhaps the most important tool in your grooming regimen. Though often overlooked, soaps come in a staggering array of compositions, and packaging often touts a laundry-list of ingredients. Understanding the best soap to buy starts, first and foremost, by considering your skin type and analyzing the components of a soap to see what will suit your needs.  In technical terms, soap is a salt of a fatty acid. When vegetable or animal fats (triglycerides) are combined...

With disinfecting and sanitizing on everyone's mind, good old-fashioned bar soap has never been more necessary. We've all seen the pictures on Twitter (or experienced firsthand) the empty grocery shelves where hand soap and portable sanitizers and all kinds of disinfectant once lived. The panic-shopping due to the coronavirus pandemic is real, and will probably not slow down anytime soon. It's that herd mentality that kicks in whenever a bad storm or hurricane is predicted. And when we humans feel out of...

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I’ll admit it. For certain spots around the house, I like using bar soap. I know, liquid hand soaps and body washes are more popular: They’re easier and less messy to use and I often recommend them in my Good Housekeeping columns as a quick way to keep kitchen and bathroom areas clean. But at our kitchen sink and in the shower, it’s bar soap for me and my hubby. We just prefer it. Because Yours Truly seems to be the only one in...