A new study investigated trends in calls to poison centers across the country for exposures to liquid laundry detergent packets. The study investigators identified declines in the number, rate and ...

Have you ever looked at a bottle of blue laundry detergent and assumed the colour meant it was more powerful? It’s a common belief, but the truth is far more interesting. The blue shade found in many ...

In 1916, German chemists searching for a wartime substitute for soap stumbled upon something far more useful, a synthetic cleaning agent that worked even in hard water. World War I had cut off the ...