Castile soap

Castile soap bar

Description

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

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

Authority

• 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