soap

     

Soap is a surfactant use in conjunction with water for washing and cleaning that is available in solid bars and in the form of a viscous liquid.

Trivia about soap

  • Dial & Zest are 4-letter brands of this
  • It was used as a medicine from 600 B.C. until 2nd century A.D., when people began to wash with it
  • Saponification is the making of this, an anagram of "sapo"
  • "Lux Radio Theatre" was brought to you by Lever Brothers, makers of the Lux brand of this product
  • Unilever's history includes Sunlight, the first of this product to be sold in single wrapped bars
  • If you've committed saponification, you haven't been bad; you've made this stuff, like Ivory (& gotten off clean)
  • Philadelphia's planetarium is named for benefactor Joseph Fels who really cleaned up making this
  • "Benson"
  • Jessica, Chester & Billy Tate
  • Billy Crystal first won fame playing Jodie Dallas, a gay character on this offbeat sitcom
  • Type of product inspired by the Biblical passage "Thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes...out of the ivory palaces"
  • In the past (we think it's in the past) kids who used bad language got their mouths washed out with this
  • (Hi. I'm Robert Guillaume.) My hit TV series "Benson" was a spin-off of this ground-breaking series that debuted in 1977