green soap

noun

1. a soap made chiefly from potassium hydroxide and linseed oil, used in treating some skin diseases.

green soap

noun

1. Also called: soft soap. med a soft or liquid alkaline soap made from vegetable oils, used in treating certain chronic skin diseases

Word History and Origins

Origin of green soap¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

The two women in the tableau, he added, were “almost exactly the same color as dark green soap.”

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He shows me into a small bathroom where there's a bar of green soap.

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High-Tech produced a bar of green soap and lathered Ugwu’s head and shaved it with a razor blade until it was smooth and soft to the touch.

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They sat down among some bristly green soap plants.

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Clean off the tattoo with a green soap and a slightly wet paper towel, then spread a salve over it.

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