“This blue Dawn clearly says dishwashing liquid,” Pam says. She zooms in on the label, which reads, in all caps, “DISHWASHING LIQUID.” “Now, look at this green Dawn really close.

Pam laid out the differences between blue and green Dawn as she sees it and said, “This blue Dawn clearly says dishwashing liquid. Now, look at this green Dawn really close.

Sales of bar soaps, though, slipped 2.2 percent from 2014 to 2015 as younger consumers and women snubbed the traditional bar in favor of liquid soap. So what’s driving the generational shift?

He found that 76 percent of 395 liquid soaps and 29 percent of 733 bar soaps — 45 percent of soaps overall — contained antibacterial agents, such as triclosan and triclocarban.