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 ...

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 ...

Heman Bekele has just been named Time's 2024 Kid of the Year. As Time writes, "His accomplishment: inventing a soap that could one day treat and even prevent multiple forms of skin cancer. It may take ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soap may seem like a simple household item, but it's one of the most powerful tools in our fight against viruses and bacteria. Long before modern sanitisers and disinfectants became popular, soap was ...