soft soap

See also: softsoap, and soft-soap

English

soft soap in a container

Noun

soft soap (countable and uncountable, plural soft soaps)

1. Any jellyish soap made by cooking natural oils and fats with potassium hydroxide.
2. Any fluid or semifluid soap.

   Hyponym: liquid soap

   Coordinate term: bar soap

3. Alternative spelling of soft-soap (“flattery, persuasion”).

Synonyms

• (soap made with potassium): green soap, potassium soap

Translations

soap made with potassium

• Finnish: suopa (fi)
• French: savon noir (fr) m
• Portuguese: sabão mole, sabão de potassa
• Swedish: såpa (sv) c
• Welsh: sebon meddal m

fluid or semifluid soap

• Finnish: nestesaippua (fi)
• Portuguese: sabão líquido
• Russian: жидкое мыло n (židkoje mylo)
• Swedish: flytande tvål c

soft-soap — see soft-soap

See also

• soft water

 

Verb

soft soap (third-person singular simple present soft soaps, present participle soft soaping, simple past and past participle soft soaped)

1. Alternative spelling of soft-soap

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