Difference between revisions of "Castile soap"

Revision as of 14:48, 12 January 2014

Castile soap bar

A mild, semitransparent Soap made from Olive oil and Sodium hydroxide or Sodium carbonate. Castile soap is used to clean Leather (saddle soap) and other items.

castille (sp); Castile soap; Marseilles soap; Venetian soap; saddle soap; jabon de Castila (Esp.); sapo castilliensis (Esp.)

R. J. Gettens, G.L. Stout, Painting Materials, A Short Encyclopaedia, Dover Publications, New York, 1966

Thomas Gregory, The Condensed Chemical Dictionary, Reinhold Publishing, New York, 3rd ed., 1942

G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 732

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, at http://www.wikipedia.com Comment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castile_soap (Accessed Jan. 6, 2006)

The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998

@@ Line 2: / Line 2: @@
 == Description ==
-A mild, semitransparent [http://cameo.mfa.org/materials/fullrecord.asp?name=soap soap] made from [http://cameo.mfa.org/materials/fullrecord.asp?name=olive%20oil olive oil] and [http://cameo.mfa.org/materials/fullrecord.asp?name=sodium%20hydroxide sodium hydroxide] or [http://cameo.mfa.org/materials/fullrecord.asp?name=sodium%20carbonate sodium carbonate].  Castile soap is used to clean [http://cameo.mfa.org/materials/fullrecord.asp?name=leather leather] (saddle soap) and other items.
+A mild, semitransparent [[soap]] made from [[olive oil]] and [[sodium hydroxide]] or [[sodium carbonate]].  Castile soap is used to clean [[leather]] (saddle soap) and other items.
 == Synonyms and Related Terms ==