But how do bulk soap dispensers end up so contaminated in the first place? Sometimes it's accidental, when airborne particles land in an open soap container. Sometimes it's because the person ...

David earned his BA from Northeastern and has toiled in nearly every aspect of the food business, including as a line cook in Rhode Island where he once made a steak sandwich for Lamar Odom.

He went with a ceramic dispenser produced by hand in small batches and made in saturated colors and abstract shapes. Each is filled with a quince-scented soap from Ffern, a luxury fragrance ...

Nathalie Stämpfli's "Soap Flakes" dispensers fix this. They shave bars of soap into soap flakes, which are quick to foam, and the dispensers are hard to drop. One is fixed to a wall, operated by ...