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Soap

Soap is a salt of a fatty acid (sometimes other carboxylic acids) used for cleaning and lubricating products as well as other applications. In a domestic setting, soaps, specifically "toilet soaps", are surfactants usually used for washing, bathing, and other types of housekeeping. In industrial settings, soaps are used as thickeners, components of some…

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Soap-related

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Soap

Nodes199
Edges198
Triples191
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.01005
Components1

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related to Further reading · 67
Soap → African Soapy Saponin-Rich Plants, Bibcode, Bob, Carpenter, Checklist, Clavicula Press, Cold Process, Communities' Response, Contents, David, Donkor, Dunn, Ebook, Firefly Books, Free, Garzena, Global Pandemics, Google Books, Handbook, Harrowsmith Contemporary Primer
related to Medieval Europe · 21
Soap → Arabs, Charlemagne, De Villis, Eastern Roman Empire, England, Europe, Europe's, Hard, In Europe, It, Italy, Kingdom, Medieval Spain, Mediterranean, Naples, Soapmakers, Soapmaking, Spain, The, The Carolingian
related to Islamic Golden Age · 15
Soap → AD, Europe, Hard, In Syria, In West Asia, Islamic Golden Age, It, Muhammad, Muslim, North Africa, Razi, Recipes, Syria, West Asia, Zakariya
related to 16th–17th century · 12
Soap → English, France, Hyères, In France, In Marseilles, London, Marseille, Provence, Provençal, The, Toulon, Tudor
related to Liquid soap · 10
Soap → In, Johnson, Johnson Soap Company, Liquid, Palmolive, Pine-Sol, Such, This, Tide, William Sheppard
related to Ancient world · 8
Soap → Babylon, Babylonian, BC, Egyptian, Proto-soaps, Sumerian, The, This
related to Gallery · 8
Soap → African, Aleppo, Dudu-Osun, FranceTraditional Marseille, Hyères, Lye, Modern, Tübingen
related to Toilet soaps · 8
Soap → Anything, In, It, Na, RCO2, The, Toilet, When
related to External links · 7
Soap → Cambridge University Press, Chisholm, Encyclopædia Britannica, History, Hugh, SoapHistory, Vol
related to Modern period · 7
Soap → Advertising, America, Dobbins, Europe, In, Industrially, Palmolive SoapLiquid

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soaps used oil produced oils alkali soapmaking century toilet fats washing fat olive also ancient manufacture called water making made

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Soapis asalt of a fatty acid0.90text
Soapis apopular example of the vegetable-only soaps derived from the oldest0.90text
ammonium can be used instead of a metalinstance ofH2OA cation from an organic base0.80text
triclosan or triclocarban can be addedinstance ofcompounds0.80text
wool for thousands of years but soap forms only when there is enough fatinstance ofAlkali was used to clean textiles0.80text
and experiments show that washing wool does not create visible quantities of soapinstance ofAlkali was used to clean textiles0.80text
Soaprelated to 16th–17th centuryIn France0.60section
Soaprelated to 16th–17th centuryProvence0.60section
Soaprelated to 16th–17th centuryToulon0.60section
Soaprelated to 16th–17th centuryHyères0.60section
Soaprelated to 16th–17th centuryMarseille0.60section
Soaprelated to 16th–17th centuryFrance0.60section

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