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Castile soap

noun

  1. a hard soap made from olive oil and sodium hydroxide


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Among a number of soaps that might be mentioned castile soap is, perhaps, as good as any.

Mortimer was as bold as orange-and-pink hosiery, and Simile was as elusive as a cake of castile soap.

At the end of September he shut up the soda fountain gladly, piling it high with bars of castile soap or cartons of cod liver oil.

Apply freely on linen rags night, and morning, washing previously with warm castile soap-suds.

Castile Soap, as imported from Spain, is a similar combination, but is colored by protosulphate of iron.

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