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.

The Repair Shop’s Kirsten Ramsay admitted she was facing "a conundrum" when a man took a crumbling soap carving to the barn. The sculpture was a likeness of Chris Cooke’s late grandfather, which was ...