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a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats

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a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats

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A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf. Saponification. By extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent or not.

To rub or wash over with soap.

Sodium or potassium salts of long chain fatty acids. These detergent substances are obtained by boiling natural oils or fats with caustic alkali. Sodium soaps are harder and are used as topical anti-infectives and vehicles in pills and liniments; potassium soaps are soft, used as vehicles for ointments and also as topical antimicrobials.

A substance for cleansing, made by mixing fats or oils with an alkali, such as potash or lye.

To cover or wash with soap.

Soapiness.

Soapiness.

A compound of oils or fats with soda or potash, used in washing.

To rub or wash with soap.

Soapiness.

To rub with soap; put soap on.

Any compound formed by the union of a fatty acid with a base; used for cleansing purposes.

Combination of a fatty acid and a salt.

Compound of oil or fat with an alkali, used for washing.

To rub with soap.

Sapo- s. Acid, see Sapo.

A compound of fatty acid with an alkali.

A substance prepared by the action of a caustic alkali or a metallic salt on animal or vegetable fats and oils, and consisting essentially of a compound of a metal with one or more fatty acids or with acids of the oleic acid group. Of the U. S. Ph., a soap made with sodium hydroxid and olive oil.

n. [Anglo-Saxon, Latin, Greek] A substance used in washing, &c., compounded of one or more of the acids obtained from fatty bodies with alkalies or salifiable bases-when the alkali is soda, the soap is hard, and when potassa, soft.