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Soap based? Of course you should use the most grease-cutting soap you can, i.e. the highest feasible proportion of coconut, palm kernel, or babassu -- 100% would be best -- and no superfat, but also as close as feasible to 0 lye excess. And the product should be mostly soap. Extra alkali should...

There are possible ways he could be right. Some commercial deodorant sticks use a soap base -- a low-solubility soap, sodium stearate. So maybe his product isn't for washing, but an actual leave-on product. But assuming it is a soap for washing with, I'll remind people that when Dial soap...

That's a function of the clothing we wear now, or maybe specifically that used by NASA (which might be ultra-light). Our ancestors had few clothes and so didn't change or wash them often, but the fabrics were much more resistant. In the 19th C. the washing was done with long soaking in very...

3 mos. ago I moved into a rural house rental w someone where we're sharing the bathroom -- my 1st experience w that in decades. He & I are very alike in our interests, but very different in our personalities. After he insisted I not hang my used washcloth on the rack that seems to exist for...