But when a Minnesota company called Minnetonka bought a large consignment of lotion pumps and began mass-producing liquid soap, the idea took off. As we learned during the pandemic ...

Foam soaps are increasingly replacing traditional liquid soaps in hospitals, nursing homes, schools, the food industry and other public spaces, but the trend may carry a risk, a small study suggests.

When volunteers washed with foam soap, the average bacterial colony count on each hand went from 3.6 to 2.6, on a scale from 1 to 4 - a difference that could have been a coincidence. With liquid ...