soap

Soap is something that is used with water to make suds and is used for cleaning.

Facts About Soap

Some soaps are safer for our environment because they use natural ingredients and limit the amount of artificial chemicals typically found in soap.
The most popular alternatives that exist are vegetable and castile soaps. These soaps are made from the oils of plants and vegetables and are much less harmful on the environment.
Fragrances in soaps are chemically-made rather than being the extract of any flower.
Most anti-bacterial soaps have been shown to contain MIT, or methylisothiazolinone, and many contain Triclosan, a chemical registered with the EPA as a pesticide and is quite similar in composition as Agent Orange which causes nerve damage in both animals and people.
The Centers for Disease Control indicate that the use of anti-bacterial soap is not necessary to control the spread of bacteria. Simply washing your hands with every day soap is sufficient to loosen bacteria from the skin and, once loosened, the bacteria will simply wash away upon rinsing your hands.

(noun)

An example of soap is the bar sitting next to a bathroom sink used for washing hands.

See soap in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a substance used with water to produce suds for washing or cleaning: soaps are usually sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids, produced by the action of an alkali, as caustic soda or potash, on fats or oils
any metallic salt of a fatty acid
☆ Slang soap opera
also soaper

Origin: ME sope < OE sape, akin to Ger seife < Gmc *saipo- < IE base *seib-, to trickle, run out > L sebum, tallow

transitive verb

to lather, scrub, etc. with soap

See soap in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A cleansing agent, manufactured in bars, granules, flakes, or liquid form, made from a mixture of the sodium salts of various fatty acids of natural oils and fats.
A metallic salt of a fatty acid, as of aluminum or iron.
Slang Money, especially that which is used for bribery.
A soap opera.

transitive verb soaped, soap·ing, soaps