Anybody know what this soap is called?
Question:It is in a bar and it is for laundery. It is orange and has a pretty distinctive odor. It isnt anything new either. My grandmother always told me to wash with it when I was exposed to poison ivy. I forget the name...
Answers:
Lye soap
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It could be Octagon soap. My great-grandmother used it for everything. It has lye in it.
sounds like DIAL soap
Lye/sodium hydroxide...we used to be threatened to have our mouths washed out with this!!!!
Sounds like good old fashioned lye soap.
I found a website that sounds like what you are looking for the website is soapsgonebuy.com the soap is called Fel-Naptha made by dial selling for $1.89 and says it gets rid of poison ivy..
Octagon Soap. My Gramma always kept it around for my poison ivy, and it worked wonders. I actually now keep some on hand myself.
Peace.
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