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Definition of Green soap
1. Noun. A soft (or liquid) soap made from vegetable oils; used in certain skin diseases.
Medical Definition of Green soap
1. A soap made with vegetable oils, potassium hydroxide, oleic acid, glycerin, and purified water; used as a stimulant in chronic skin diseases. Synonym: green soap, soft soap. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Green Soap
Literary usage of Green soap
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1903)
"PERS : In New York we have been having a call for green soap, and there are 1
few dealers who manufacture a soap having a dark-green color. ..."
2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1874)
"Mr JM Maisch, " Commercial soft or green soap is usually made now, wholly or in
part, ... green soap is mainly used in medicine for the cure of itch, ..."
3. Therapeutic Gazette (1907)
"green soap is used for the hands. This tion with alcohol and ether is used in the
... Sterilized green soap made into a freely flowing fluid by dilu- ing ..."
4. A Practical treatise on materia medica and therapeutics by John Vietch Shoemaker (1908)
"The combination of potassium hydroxide with linseed oil is official as soft or
green soap, although brownish-yellow rather'than green. ..."
5. Bulletin of Pharmacy (1910)
"The objections to the tincture of green soap usually employed by surgeons in
preparing their hands and the field of operation are ..."
6. The Care of the Skin and Hair by William Allen Pusey (1912)
"green soap.—green soap—a potash soap made with linseed oil with the addition of
... The so-called tincture of green soap is green soap dissolved in alcohol. ..."
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