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Castile soap

A kind of fine hard white or mottled soap made with olive oil and soda also a soap made in imitation of the above described soap...


Soap

Soap. The excise on soap was repealed by 16 & 17 Vict. c. 39....


Toilet soap

Toilet soap, which is being used for everybody house-hold use for purpose of bath would fall within the meaning of house-hold soap, Oswal Agro Mills Ltd. v. C.C.E., AIR 1993 SC 2288 (2295)....


Soap

A substance which dissolves in water thus forming a lather and is used as a cleansing agent Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths usually by boiling and consists of salts of sodium potassium etc with the fatty acids oleic stearic palmitic etc See the Note below and cf Saponification By extension any compound of similar composition or properties whether used as a cleaning agent or not...


Shampoo

Shampoo, Shampoo is a kind of liquid soap. It has all the essential ingredients of a soap. It may be that the proportion of the ingredients of the liquid soap differ from those of a soap in the form of a cake but that fact would not alter the basic character of shampoo and take it out of the category of soaps, State of Gujarat v. Prakash Trading Co., AIR 1973 SC 960 (961). [Bombay Sales Tax Act, (51 of 1959) Sch. C, Entry 28]...


Quillaia bark

The bark of a rosaceous tree Quillaja Saponaria native of Chile The bark is finely laminated and very heavy with alkaline substances and is used commonly by the Chileans instead of soap Also called soap bark...


Saponaceous

Resembling soap having the qualities of soap soapy...


Saponification

The act process or result of soap making conversion into soap specifically Chem the decomposition of fats and other ethereal salts by alkalies as the saponification of ethyl acetate...


Soapberry tree

Any tree of the genus Sapindus esp Sapindus saponaria the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen also called soap tree...


Soapy

Resembling soap having the qualities of or feeling like soap soft and smooth...


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