Word Finder - soap

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A substance able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning, often in the form of a solid bar or in liquid form, derived from fats or made synthetically.

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I tried washing my hands with soap, but the stain wouldn't go away.

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A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid

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Flattery or excessively complacent conversation.

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Money, specially when used as a bribe.

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A soap opera.

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A solid masonry unit or brick reduced in depth or height from standard dimensions.

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To apply soap to in washing.

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Be sure to soap yourself well before rinsing.

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To cover, lather or in any other form treat with soap, often as a prank.

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Those kids soaped my windows!

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To be discreet about (a topic).

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To flatter; to wheedle.

He smelled of soap, and his hair was wet.

Katie cupped a soap sud clad hand to her ear.

She focused on mixing dish soap and lemon juice in her palm.

The entire affair was a damn soap opera.

It had to be the shampoo or soap, because she wasn't wearing perfume.

Soap and chocolate are manufactured.

The chief industries are the manufacture of railway plant, cloth, wool, soap, shoddy, furniture, bricks and cement.

God, I sound like 'two o'clock, brought to you by Ivory soap, tune in again tomorrow.'

The faint smell of disinfectant soap was washed away by expensive cologne.

A warm embrace caught her mid-fall over the cliff, and the scent of soap and man penetrated her bewildered senses.

Besides manufactures of brandy, flour, oil, soap, linen and cloth, it has an active trade in wheat, wine and fruit, especially melons.

Sugar factories, distilleries, flour-mills, woollen mills, tanneries, potteries, tobacco factories, breweries, candle and soap factories, have an annual output valued at 4,000,000.

Dean considered his poking options as he used half a cake of soap to scrub away the stink of the mine.

The soap is now ready for framing.

In this way curd, mottled or marbled soap is formed, and such mottled appearance was formerly highly valued as an indication of freedom from excess of water or other adulteration, because in fitted soaps the impurities are either washed out or fall to the bottom of the mass in cooling.

Now, however, the mottled soaps, blue and grey, are produced by working colouring matter, ultramarine for blue, and manganese dioxide for grey, into the soap in the frame, and mottling is very far from being a certificate of excellence of quality.

Arsenical soap is very much employed by taxidermists for the preservation of the skins of birds and mammals.

Soft or green soap (potassium oleate), made by acting on olive oil with caustic potash, is also used; its preparation (Linamentum saponis) is known as opodeldoc. Curd soap is also used, and is chiefly a stearate of sodium.

The chief use of hard soap is in enemata, and as a suppository in children suffering from constipation; it also forms the basis of many pills; given in warm water it forms a ready emetic in cases of poisoning.

There are large slaughtering establishments, and factories for the refining of sugar and for the manufacture of tobacco goods, soap and perfumery, lead pencils, iron and steel, railway cars, chemicals, rubber goods, silk goods, dressed lumber, and malt liquors.

Finally, a place for soap, which is high enough so the person does not have to bend down low, is a great safety and convenience feature.

It includes a seat, handrails, and soap dish.

The mask should be cleaned daily with gentle, no abrasive soap.

You can try adjusting the straps and pads on your mask for a better fit, and wash your mask every day with warm water and soap to remove oil, dirt, and germs.

To clean, rinse the glasses in warm water and use a mild liquid soap.

Mild soap and warm water may be used if necessary.

The spent lye of the washing being drained off, the soap is now " boiled for strength."

Steam is turned on, and, the mass being brought to a clear condition with weak lye or water, strong lye is added and the boiling continued with close steam till the lye attains such a state of concentration that the soap is no longer soluble in it, and it will separate from the caustic lye as from a common salt solution.

The contents of the pan are once more allowed to cool and settle, and the soap as now formed constitutes a pure curd coap, carrying with it some proportion of uncombined alkali, but containing the minimum amount of water.

It may be skimmed off the underlye and placed direct in the frames for solidification; but that is a practice scarcely at all followed, the addition of resin soap in the pan and the subsequent " crutching in " of silicate of soda and adulterant mixings being features common to the manufacture.

Yellow Soap consists of a mixture of any hard fatty soap with a variable proportion - up to 40% or more - of resin soap. That substance by itself has a tenacious gluey consistence, and its intermixture in excess renders the resulting compound soft and greasy.

The ordinary method of adding resin consists in stirring it in small fragments into the fatty soap in the stage of clear-boiling; but a better result is obtained by separately preparing a fatty soap and the resin soap, and combining the two in the pan after the underlye has been salted out and removed from the fatty soap. The compound then receives its strengthening boil, after which it is fitted by boiling with added water or weak lye, continuing the boil till by examination of a sample the proper consistency has been reached.

Treatment of Settled Soap. - The upper layer having been removed, the desired soap is ladled out or ran off to a crutcher, which is an iron pan provided with hand or mechanical stirring appliances.

It is here stirred till it becomes ropy, and the perfume, colour or any other substance desired in the soap is added.

Marine Soap. - These soaps are so named because they are not insoluble in a strong solution of salt; hence they form a lather and can be used for washing with sea-water.

Being thus soluble in salt water it cannot, of course, be salted out like common soaps; but if a very concentrated salt solution is used precipitation is effected, and a curd soap is separated so hard and refractory as to be practically useless.

Coconut soap also forms a principal ingredient in compound soaps meant to imitate curd and yellow soaps.

According to the second plan, the ordinary oil is treated as for the preparation of a curd soap, and to this the coconut soap separately saponified is added in the pan and both are boiled together till they form a homogeneous soap.

A further means of enabling a soap to contain large proportions of water and yet present a firm consistence is found in the use of silicate of soda.

The silicate in the form of a concentrated solution is crutched or stirred into the soap in a mechanical mixing machine after the completion of the saponification, and it appears to enter into a distinct chemical combination with the soap. While silicate soaps bear heavy watering, the soluble silicate itself is a powerful detergent, and it possesses certain advantages when used with hard waters.

Soft Soap. - Soft soaps are made with potash lyes, although in practice a small quantity of soda is also used to give the soap some consistence.

There is no separation of underlyes in potash soap, consequently the product contains the whole constituents of the oils used, as the operation of salting out is quite impracticable owing to the double decomposition which results from the action of salt, producing thereby a hard principally soda soap with formation of potassium chloride.

The making of soft soap, although thus a much less complex process than hard soap making, is one that demands much skill and experience for its success.

The manufacturer of toilet soap generally takes care to present his wares in convenient form and of agreeable appearance and smell; the more weighty duty of having them free from uncombined alkali is in many cases entirely overlooked.

Transparent soaps are prepared by dissolving ordinary soap in strong alcohol and distilling off the greater portion of the alcohol till the residue comes to the condition of a thick transparent jelly.

This, when cast into forms and allowed to harden and dry slowly, comes out as transparent soap. A class of transparent soap may also be made by the cold process, with the use of coco-nut oil, castor oil and sugar.

The finer soaps are perfumed by the cold method; the soap is shaved down to thin slices, and the essential oil kneaded into and mixed with it by special machinery, after which it is formed into cakes by pressure in suitable moulds.

A high class soap, which after framing contains about 30% of water, is brought down to a water content of 11-14% by drying in chambers through which warm air is circulated.

The soap is now milled in the form of ribbons with the perfume and colouring matter, and the resulting strips are welded into bars by forcing through a heated nozzle.

Glycerin soap ordinarily consists of about equal parts of pure hard soap and glycerin (the latter valuable for its emollient properties).