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Handsoaps Recalled Over Bacteria That Can Cause Sepsis

The company is recalling DermaKleen and KleenFoam, along with others.

Health Matt Novak Aug 11

Coronavirus Has Me Thinking Way Too Hard About My Bar Soap

When it comes to reducing plastic, I’ve still got a lot of work to do. But I’m working on it. The coronavirus pandemic, however, given me pause for thought about one of my improvements: my bar soap. I used to be all about bottled soaps. The pumps with foam? Ugh, I loved those. But I…

Conservation Yessenia Funes Apr 10

Build This Soap Pump Speaker That Automatically Plays 20 Seconds of Your Top Spotify Songs

We’ve all suddenly discovered there’s something even more tedious than watching paint dry: washing our hands for 20 whole seconds. To make the necessary but excruciating process feel like it doesn’t drag on forever, this soap pump speaker swaps Happy Birthday for tracks from your Spotify account. The Scrubber was created by the hardware hackers…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Mar 30

The Beauty of Freezing Bubbles Is the Only Good Thing About These Nightmarish Temperatures

Did you for some reason think the grueling endurance march that was 2017 would end without one final ordeal? You fool. Right now the eastern and midwestern parts of the country are enduring record-breaking sub-zero temperatures, with the only silver lining being that it’s cold enough to instantly freeze soap bubbles, which it turns out…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Dec 28

These Artists Use Oil, Paint, and Soap to Create Tiny Alien Galaxies

Scientists trying to unlock the secrets of our universe’s origin need to look no further than the photography studio of Thomas Blanchard and Oilhack. By mixing nothing more than paints, oil, and soap, the artists manage to create colorful miniature universes full of strange, tiny alien worlds. Their latest video, Emerald, makes you wonder if…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Jul 14

Mixing Oil, Paint, and Soap Looks Like Flying Over a Distant Alien World

The next time NASA releases spectacular footage from a flyover of a distant planet or moon, you’ll have good reason to wonder if what you’re watching actually came from a spaceship, or from a microscope in a studio filming oil, paint, and liquid soap all mixed together. Galaxy Gates, directed by Oilhack and Thomas Blanchard,…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Jun 20

The FDA Finally Bans a Bunch Of Pointless Antibacterial Soaps

Sorry, that antibacterial soap isn’t doing anything more to clean you up than any other plain bar of soap. The FDA just announced it is eliminating almost all of the active ingredients used in antibacterial soaps after determining that the soaps didn’t have any more impact on preventing the spread of germs and infections than…

Tech News Ria Misra Sep 2

The FDA Wants Proof Hand Sanitizer Works

Hand sanitizer is a constant presence in modern life, from your purse to your office desk to the automatic dispensers in airports and classrooms. Now the Food and Drug Administration says it’s looking for data on the safety and efficacy of these products. The WSJ reports that the FDA has proposed a rule change whereby…

Tech News Gautham Thomas Jun 29

New Plastic Coating Will Let You Get Every Last Drop of Shampoo Out of the Bottle

Getting that last bit of shampoo or detergent out of a bottle is a total pain in the ass. Researchers have now engineered a surface coating that allows thick and soapy products to slide right out—meaning you’ll never have to store your shampoo bottle upside down ever again. In a new paper, Ohio State University…

Tech News George Dvorsky Jun 27

A 3D-Printing Soap Suds Pen Takes Bubble Baths to the Next Level

Replacing desktop 3D printers with hand-held 3D-printing pens never quite lived up to the promise of letting users turn sketches into real-life objects. And that’s partly because 3D-printing pens aren’t as forgiving as this 3D Foam Pen that swaps melted plastic for soap suds. The $42 foam pen is also much safer than 3D-printing pens…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jun 24

Have You Ever Seen a Soap Bubble Bounce?

Fifteen years ago, researchers used high speed video to show that when a drop of water coalesces into a layer of the same liquid, it does so not instantaneously but in a matryoshka-like cascade, with each step generating a smaller drop. Now, a newly published study finds that soap bubbles do something similar. “When gently…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jul 29

The Superstitious Murderer Who Turned Her Victims Into Cake And Soap

If you search Leonarda Cianciulli on the website for Rome’s Museo Criminologico, you’ll see that her nickname was “la Saponificatrice di Correggio.” What’s so sinister about a soap maker? Well, because she crafted it out of at least one of her murder victims … and then gifted the bars to her friends. That’s right: victims.…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy Jun 23

This Trippy Music Video Is An At-Home Fluid Dynamics Experiment

What happens when your production budget consists of water, soap, food colouring, and maybe a bit of magnetic goo? If you’re the filmmaker responsible for this music video, the result is a beautiful demonstration of fluid dynamics, fingering flows, drips, and bubbles. Top image: Screenshot from the music video, “Jack and the Giant.” The fluid…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Mar 28

How Floating Soap Was Invented

Ivory has been producing their uniquely floating soap for the well over a century now and in hat time they’ve become one of the most popular soap brands in the world. For many years, the company has maintained that the discovery of its trademark floating soap was a complete accident, but exactly how true is…

Tech News Karl Smallwood - TodayIFoundOut.copm Mar 26

The Spectacular Art of Painting With Soap Bubbles

If you don’t know how they’re made, Jiří Georg Dokoupil’s paintings might look like microscope photos of phosphorescent deep-sea hydrozoa, or maybe computer-generated cartoon characters. Turns out, they’re actually the permanent evidence something way simpler: bubbles. Dokoupil is a Czech artist who’s been painting with soap for decades, mixing lye with pigments and using a…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Jan 12

The Coolest Toys Of Toy Soul 2014

It’s Toy Soul 2014 in Hong Kong this weekend, and that means there’s amazing new toys to be seen from some of Asia’s best collectibles makers. Here’s some of the amazing new toys from the likes of Sentinel, ThreeZero, Hot Toys and more at the event. Header Image Credit: Hot Toy’s upcoming Thanos 1/6th figure,…

Tech News James Whitbrook Dec 19

UFO Soap Pumps: Take Me To Your Lever

If you’ve seen War of the Worlds, then it only makes sense that if an alien race were to visit our planet, they’d be pretty strict about personal hygiene before making contact with humans. Those tiny bacterial organisms all over our hands pose a real threat to extraterrestrials, so what better way to scrub up…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 22

Why Those Little Plastic Microbeads in Your Soap Are So Bad

This week, Illinois became the first state in the country to ban exfoliating plastic beads. Good for Illinois. Plastic microbeads have been running off by the billions into the Great Lakes and the oceans, causing huge amounts of environmental damage. Yet most consumers didn’t even realize they existed. Marine biologists have warned for a while…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Jun 15

Illinois Bans the Microbeads in Soap That Are Ruining the Great Lakes

Some years ago, soap companies began putting plastic exfoliating beads into body wash in hopes of greater profits and smoother skin. Since then, billions of plastic beads have polluted our waterways and poisoned fish. Illinois has become now the first state to take a stand against the beads. The Illinois bill, signed into law Sunday,…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Jun 9

A Woman Replaced Her Soap With a Daily Mist of Bacteria—And It Worked

Since we dirty buggers have already made the case against antibacterial soap, it’s time to consider the case against all soap. And showers. Basically all hygiene as we know it in the 21st century. In the latest New York Times Magazine, Julia Scott gives up soap for a mist of bacteria usually found in dirt—and…

Health Sarah Zhang May 22

Soap

Handsoaps Recalled Over Bacteria That Can Cause Sepsis

Coronavirus Has Me Thinking Way Too Hard About My Bar Soap

Build This Soap Pump Speaker That Automatically Plays 20 Seconds of Your Top Spotify Songs

The Beauty of Freezing Bubbles Is the Only Good Thing About These Nightmarish Temperatures

These Artists Use Oil, Paint, and Soap to Create Tiny Alien Galaxies

Mixing Oil, Paint, and Soap Looks Like Flying Over a Distant Alien World

The FDA Finally Bans a Bunch Of Pointless Antibacterial Soaps

The FDA Wants Proof Hand Sanitizer Works

New Plastic Coating Will Let You Get Every Last Drop of Shampoo Out of the Bottle

A 3D-Printing Soap Suds Pen Takes Bubble Baths to the Next Level

Have You Ever Seen a Soap Bubble Bounce?

The Superstitious Murderer Who Turned Her Victims Into Cake And Soap

This Trippy Music Video Is An At-Home Fluid Dynamics Experiment

How Floating Soap Was Invented

The Spectacular Art of Painting With Soap Bubbles

The Coolest Toys Of Toy Soul 2014

UFO Soap Pumps: Take Me To Your Lever

Why Those Little Plastic Microbeads in Your Soap Are So Bad

Illinois Bans the Microbeads in Soap That Are Ruining the Great Lakes

A Woman Replaced Her Soap With a Daily Mist of Bacteria—And It Worked

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