Cut the soap base into smaller cubes – this will help it to melt evenly. Place the cubes in the glass bowl.

The average pH level in traditional soap is 9 to 10. However, your skin’s normal pH level is only 4 to 5. Soaps with a high pH disrupt the skin’s natural pH, making it less acidic.

(File photo)A Palestinian worker wraps soap pieces at a traditional soap factory in the West Bank city of Nablus, on Jan 23, 2010. Soap making is one of the oldest industry in Nablus city. The ...

These bars don’t contain traditional soap, which is made by saponifying fats with lye (an alkaline substance). Instead, they rely on gentler surfactants, moisturizing oils, and cleansing clays.

African black soap is a traditional soap that comes from West Africa that's known for its ability to clear common skin conditions including breakouts, fungal acne, and even eczema.

Compared with soap-and-water baths, cleansing patients with CHG cloths resulted in significantly fewer VRE colonies on patients' skin and reduced VRE contamination of healthcare workers' hands ...

Pears Traditional Soap has been forced to abandon its new recipe following a Facebook campaign by users over the chemicals added to the 221-year-old formula. 06 January 2010 • 9:25am .

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 ...

When it comes to soap, ... in 2013 to require manufacturers to prove that antibacterial soaps are safe to use and more effective than traditional soaps. ...