castile-soap

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After satisfying his hunger he went to his own room, and took a bath in water as hot as he could bear it, and washed his cuts and bruises with white castile-soap, a piece of which Mrs. Sterling always managed to keep on hand for such emergencies.

Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines Kirk Monroe
Their palace did not 'lift its marble walls to eternal summer' by any means; for it rained much, and was so cold that some took to their beds for warmth, stone floors looking like castile-soap not being just the thing for rheumatism.

Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag Louisa May Alcott 1860