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 ...

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 ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has made clear that washing your hands with soap and water is the most effective method for fighting off the coronavirus during the COVID-19 outbreak.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I use a beauty bar for hand-washing. Am I just giving the virus et al. a spa day and I need to also use a hand sanitizer? -- M.C. ANSWER: Humans like scented beauty bars, but viruses ...

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 ...

With panic over the coronavirus spreading faster than the illness itself, it’s tempting to stock up on face masks or barricade yourself inside your apartment with a year’s worth of canned food.