An old tradition has inspired a contest at the Chemung County Historical Society in Elmira. Bars of soap will be whittled and sculpted as part of a soap-carving contest. The contest is free to the ...

For a little while, Ivory soap-carving artist Murray Stuckey got a taste of celebrity. The Palm Bay man made a name for himself carving ordinary white bars of Ivory soap into intricate pieces of art.

Inspired by a scene in Tamil film Mozhi, Aswin Manikandan , then a student of class eight, rushed to buy a bar of soap. The reason? “In the movie, the heroine gifts the hero a soap carving of a violin ...

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