"After nearly 30 years of clogged pores across my nose, this little octopus has cleared up my skin in a way I never thought ...

From early cave painters to Pablo Picasso to Roberto Longo, artists have long loved the expressive potential of a soft charcoal pencil or crayon. Each sweep of charcoal offers intense black color and ...

Love charcoal but hate the mess? Pick up a charcoal pencil, which is composed of compressed charcoal inside a protective layer, typically wood. Suitable for drawing, sketching, or smudging, a charcoal ...

Charcoal might be the last thing you’d consider as a cleaning tool. After all, one would assume something so black and powdery could make an even bigger mess. Surprisingly, activated charcoal is one ...

Amanda Marinac is good with a stick when she plays field hockey and good with a brush when she paints — just another example of a UC Davis student-athlete-artist. This Friday through Monday (Feb. 1-4) ...

Ever since Gwyneth Paltrow gave charcoal her GOOP stamp of approval last year by declaring a pitch-black lemonade concoction one of the “best juice cleanses,” the world’s most underground beauty ...