soap
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Underlying sales for the Dove soap maker rose 5.8% on year in the quarter, compared with 3.1% in the same period last year, excluding ice-cream.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Maybe it’s lower lighting, good hand soap in the bathroom or a beautiful bread course placed on the table before anyone has had time to wonder whether they are hungry.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
His father, Ed, portrayed Bill Bauer on the daytime drama “Guiding Light” for years, while his mother, Dorothy, was known for her role on the hospital soap “The Doctors.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Patricia Greene, the longest-serving cast member of BBC Radio 4 soap The Archers, has died at the age of 95.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
“I was in the forest. I saw—” “Well, wash them—with soap, please—and come to the table. I baked.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
We’ve got all the fancy soaps, deluxe robes and we added a washer and dryer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Far from seeming like a steely leader in a rigorous era, he instead recalls all those gentle, soft, pouty-lipped dreamboats who pop up interchangeably in young-adult soaps on the streaming services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
The executive aims to modernize the Columbus, Ohio-based retailer of fragrances, scented candles, body creams and decorative soaps through an expanded digital presence, refreshed product mix and more-creative marketing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
They’ve got beautiful stools, striped upholstering, but they also have, you know, soaps and again incense, and just cute things.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
There are sweet-smelling soaps and bottled bathwater, love perfumes and potions promising money and luck.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
“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
The squeals of young girls, the grunts of old women, and the trickling of bathwater echoed between the walls as backs were scrubbed and hair soaped.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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
Before eight in the evening, I was already in the shower cubicle attached to my room, soaping myself thoroughly, having thrown all my clothes in the laundry bag.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019
I thought of the gang dumping ashcans on Third Avenue and soaping up the windows.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
