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Definition of Bar soap
1. Noun. Soap in the form of a bar.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bar Soap
Literary usage of Bar soap
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dr. Chase's Recipes: Or, Information for Everybody; an Invaluable Collection by Alvin Wood Chase, William Wesley Cook (1920)
"Cut some new, white bar soap into thin slices, melt it over a slow fire, ...
Soft water, 3 qts.; nice white bar soap, 3 Ibs.; sal-soda, 2 ozs.; ..."
2. The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work / by Virginia Penny by Virginia Penny, Penny, Virginia, b. 1826 (1863)
"It is hardened by muriate of soda, and called bar soap. That used by people in
the country is generally of their own make, and called soft soap. ..."
3. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1901)
"... soaps merely by adding perfume, although they " generally manipulate " it in
addition. Indeed, if the common bar soap be employed as a basis, ..."
4. Examinations of Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals: As to Their Purity and by Charles Henry Peirce (1853)
"As instances of the former we may mention Castile soap, Windsor soap, white
bar-soap, yellow bar-soap, and the whole host of ..."
5. The Young Housekeeper's Friend by Cornelius, Mary Hooker Cornelius (1846)
"bar soap is more economical than the soft, because it is not so easy to make use
of more than is necessary. But it is well to keep both ..."