You wet a sponge, dishcloth, or dish brush and rub it directly onto the surface of the soap bar to create a lather. Then, you use the sudsy sponge or brush to wash your dishes as you normally would.

This DIY rose clay shampoo bar is a gentle, nourishing way to cleanse your hair naturally without the plastic bottle. If you’ve been wanting to ditch liquid shampoo and switch to something more ...

Go at a slow time of day and take a tape measure, notepad, pencil and camera. Chat up the manager or bartender and tell him you’re there to try to take a few measurements for the cool wet bar ...

You take a bar of soap and wrap it in some unspun wool and wet it, massaging—felting actually!—the wool around the bar of soap until it has taken on the shape of the bar. After that you rinse ...