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Definition of Soft soap

1. Noun. Flattery designed to gain favor.

2. Noun. A soft (or liquid) soap made from vegetable oils; used in certain skin diseases.

Definition of Soft soap

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of soft-soap) ¹

2. Verb. (alternative spelling of soft-soap) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Soft 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 Soft Soap

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soft shoe soft shoulder soft shoulders soft skill soft skills soft soap (current term) soft soaped soft soaping soft soaps soft solder

soft spot soft spots soft sulfur soft target soft targets soft tennis soft tick soft tissue soft tissue infections

Literary usage of Soft soap

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1845)
"The soft soap was made exclusively at Hull, Bradford, Leeds, Liverpool, and Manchester. The total quantity of soap exported from England, in the year 1844-5 ..."

2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1845)
"The soft soap was made exclusively at Hull, Bradford, Leeds, Liverpool, and Manchester. The total quantity of soap exported from England, in the year 1844-5 ..."

3. Dr. Chase's Recipes: Or, Information for Everybody. An Invaluable Collection by Alvin Wood Chase (1860)
"Even in 'common soft soap, if this amount of sal soda is put into that ... Chemical soft soap.—J. Hamilton, an English gentleman, and proprietor of the ..."

4. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"Soft-soap is comparatively little used, except for coarse ... Soft-soap ought to be made with olive oil and potash, and it should be of yellowish-white ..."

5. Hunt's Merchants' Magazine by Freeman Hunt (1845)
"The soft soap was made exclusively at Hull, Bradford, Leeds, Liverpool, and Manchester. The total quantity of soap exported from England, in the year 1844-5 ..."

6. Chemical Technology; Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to the Arts and by Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Henry Watts, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp (1863)
"soft soap is consequently contaminated with all these substances, ... soft soap never dries up completely to a solid mass, even after long exposure to the ..."

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