Castile soap

noun

1. a hard soap made from olive oil and sodium hydroxide

Example Sentences

Among a number of soaps that might be mentioned castile soap is, perhaps, as good as any.

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Mortimer was as bold as orange-and-pink hosiery, and Simile was as elusive as a cake of castile soap.

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At the end of September he shut up the soda fountain gladly, piling it high with bars of castile soap or cartons of cod liver oil.

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Apply freely on linen rags night, and morning, washing previously with warm castile soap-suds.

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Castile Soap, as imported from Spain, is a similar combination, but is colored by protosulphate of iron.

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