Dedicated October 25, 2006, at Procter & Gamble headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. The description of synthetic detergents as the first big change in soap making in two millennia was hardly an ...

When rivers in the U.S. and Europe began to billow with evil-looking foam and tap water frothed like lager beer, the blame was quickly pinned on the synthetic detergents in modern cleaning agents.

Scientists have discovered the precise way detergents break biological membranes, which could increase our understanding of how soaps work to kill viruses like COVID-19. Detergents play a role in ...

Earth's atmosphere has a unique ability to cleanse itself by way of invisible molecules in the air that act as minuscule cleanup crews. The most important molecule in that crew is the hydroxyl radical ...

Adding a molecule normally used in detergent to an infrared LED could make devices that are easier to manufacture, require less energy and display richer colours than existing ones. Solar cells and ...

In 1916, German chemists searching for a wartime substitute for soap stumbled upon something far more useful, a synthetic ...