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His father worked as a soap opera editor and would sometimes bring him to set, where he learned to love the “feeling of being around people making stuff.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

But consumer staples tend to fare relatively well when the economy slows, as people continue to shop for items like soap, toothpaste and shampoo.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

During the Vietnam War, Mr. Tullett tells us, the Viet Cong could detect the presence of American soldiers by their soap and aftershave.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Her early work as a child actor included roles in the 1990s on the soap operas “One Life to Live” and “Guiding Light.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

She couldn’t make soap with ashes and fat as Aunt Chipo had done in the village—every morsel of fat went down her throat—but she made a reasonable substitute from the boiled roots of ruredzo plants.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Diane Aitken, 45, a fan from Scotland, likens the werewolf- and vampire-themed microdramas she enjoys to 1980s US soaps Dallas or Dynasty "on steroids".

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

In social-media posts sponsored by Dove, people are layering its fragrant body washes, bar soaps and scrubs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

In those studies, the researchers developed approaches for converting other types of plastic waste into surfactants used in products such as soaps and detergents.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026

Panettiere was also known for her work on soaps “One Life to Live” and “Guiding Light” and films “Remember the Titans,” “Bring It On: All or Nothing” and the “Scream” franchise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

Sometimes I watch daytime soaps on television, where there are more crises and better clothes than in real life.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

“In the stables, the Queen’s horses were again at the ready, coats groomed, saddles and bridles soaped and stirrups polished,’’ Dimbleby wrote.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2022

Rhoda soaped a washcloth and began to scrub beneath the folds of her daughter’s skin.

From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2015

Actually, according to the Post, he “took some large metal pans that did not appear to be dirty, soaped them up and rinsed them…as the cameras clicked and the TV cameras rolled.”

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2012

The tune "Sticky Situation," for instance, mushrooms into the spectacle of a half-dozen boys getting their mouths soaped by moms.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2010

I turned on the warm water and soaped up my hands.

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez

Exuberant young men splashing around in a pool with one theatrically soaping himself as a crowd cheered.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2024

Set up an assembly line from soaping and scrubbing to rinsing to drying.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

Doing it while a shower is running and then soaping up, thus creating a steamy-sudsy environment, would be even better for masking the odors your body produces.

From Slate ● May 25, 2020

He enumerates some pleasures of life on the outside — sleeping on comfortable sheets, soaping up a loofah sponge in the shower.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2020

Apa stops soaping the car and turns around to look at Joon.

From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na