Soft soap
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Soft soap can refer to one of the following:
- a general purpose soapSoapIn chemistry, soap is a salt of a fatty acid.IUPAC. "" Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. . Compiled by A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford . XML on-line corrected version: created by M. Nic, J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins. ISBN...
that is liquid or easily soluble, as opposed to a hard soap which will only dissolve sparingly. - a hygiene product made exclusively from naturalNatureNature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general...
oils. In this case "soft" prefix is a reference to it being "softer on nature" than regular, synthetic soaps. - a term for "flattery" and "blarney", especially when applied to ingratiating praise intended to persuade, cajole or wheedle a favor. Cheaper oils and potash were used in making softer soaps, and so they were less effective, but the expression connotes persuasive flattery.
- a logical fallacy using insincere flattery or praise to weaken the opponent in a debate.
- SoftsoapSoftsoapSoftsoap is the trade name of Colgate-Palmolive's liquid hand soap and body wash.William Sheppard of New York was granted patent number 49,561 for his "Improved Liquid Soap" on August 22, 1865, for his discovery that a small amount of conventional soap could be mixed with large amounts of hartshorn...
(without a space) is the trade name of a liquid soap product. - Soft Soap TV is a weekly community soap opera open to all local residents of Pitsmoor, Sheffield in the UK. Characters are played by soft toys chromakeyed over photographs of local locations.