Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of years ago, our ancestors discovered something that would clean their bodies and clothes. As the story goes, fat from ...

The film details the process of soap making, starting with Carl Mason's laboratory demonstration using fat and sodium hydroxide (lye). It explains the chemical reaction known as saponification, where ...

NORFOLK, Virginia — Norfolk resident Katie Smith has been using Nofo soaps for six years. She and her husband like the essential oil soaps. “I like that you can recognize every ingredient that’s on ...

Heman Bekele is not your typical high school student. Rather than spending his free time playing video games or staring at his phone, this 14 year-old from Fairfax, Virginia was calling professors and ...

Soap making can be traced back to a few ancient precursors, specifically the Mesopotamians and Egyptians, but the Gauls really sent it-- mixing animal fat and beech or elm ash to make paste that gave ...

A 14-year-old boy has been named "America's top young scientist" after developing a bar of soap that could help treat melanoma. Heman Bekele, a ninth-grader from Virginia, won the 3M Young Scientist ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. How does soap clean our bodies? – Charlie H., ...