Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies, and the real answers: Question: In a recent piece on Asheville’s water ...

Fireplace ash may seem like a useless by-product of burned wood, but it actually has several practical uses around the home.

The thousand-year-old practice of Nablus soap making has been newly designated by UNESCO as intangible world heritage.

Umm al-Abed handcrafts soap at her home in the village of Salem, in one of many small soap workshops across the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Initiated into the thousand-year-old practice of Nablus ...

Offering 25 different types of soap, the Florentine soap-maker is known for making bars that are long lasting both in the shower and out — you might even consider leaving a bar of its Melograno ...

The process is rudimentary, involving a plastic bucket in a concrete courtyard and just three ingredients: olive oil, water and lye. "The person who taught us to make the soap was an elderly ...

The process is rudimentary, involving a plastic bucket in a concrete courtyard and just three ingredients: olive oil, water and lye. "The person who taught us to make the soap was an elderly ...

Chinese researchers have developed a revolutionary iron-making technology that could change the game for the global steel industry. The new method, which injects finely ground iron ore powder into ...