Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing more fat than can combine with the amount of alkali present: noting certain soaps used for medicinal purposes.
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- adjective Having been subjected to a
superfatting treatment.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of soap) containing extra unsaponified fat
Etymologies
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Examples
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Stick to unscented, superfatted soaps made from natural ingredients including cocoa butter, aloe, jojoba oil, and wheat-germ oil.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008
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Stick to unscented, superfatted soaps made from natural ingredients including cocoa butter, aloe, jojoba oil, and wheat-germ oil.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008
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Stick to unscented, superfatted soaps made from natural ingredients including cocoa butter, aloe, jojoba oil, and wheat-germ oil.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008
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Stick to unscented, superfatted soaps made from natural ingredients including cocoa butter, aloe, jojoba oil, and wheat-germ oil.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008
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It is lovely stuff: usually superfatted, it is soft and lathers like a dream.
Archive 2005-09-01 Angry Professor 2005
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It is lovely stuff: usually superfatted, it is soft and lathers like a dream.
Bad chemistry in Ellesiouville, U.S.A. Angry Professor 2005
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You think Martin Amis is tedious, and you managed this superfatted slab of self-regard?
Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Michael Allen 2005
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Recent researches have shown, however, that even if a superfatted soap-base is beneficial for the preparation of toilet soaps (a point which is open to doubt), it is quite inadmissible for the manufacture of germicidal and disinfectant soaps, the bactericidal efficiency of which is much restricted by the presence of free fat.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton
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You superfatted millionaire kids are all the same.
The Little Nugget 1928
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I finally decided to try my hand at making some really superfatted soaps with healing ingredients like chammomile, oatmeal, vitamin E, lanolin, shea butter and cocoa butter.
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